Author Assistant Training Workbook 7: Website & Store Maintenance
Author Assistant Training Workbook 7: Website & Store Maintenance
Couldn't load pickup availability
INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD!
Learn how to help an author keep their website and direct store accurate, functional, organized, and up to date.
An author’s website is more than an online business card. It can serve as a catalog, marketing hub, reader funnel, direct-sales store, and central source of information about an author’s books. When something changes in the publishing business, the website and store often need to change with it.
In Author Assistant Training Workbook 7: Website & Store Maintenance, you’ll learn how to safely support the day-to-day maintenance of an author’s website and online store—without needing to become a web developer.
This practical workbook covers:
- Understanding the author website as a business system
- Common platforms including WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Webflow
- Navigating unfamiliar website and store dashboards
- Safe editing and change-control practices
- Maintaining book and series pages
- Updating covers, descriptions, metadata, and other catalog information
- Testing links, buttons, and site navigation
- Creating and maintaining direct-store products
- Product variants, pricing, fulfillment information, and collections
- Supporting temporary sales and promotional changes
- Recognizing the downstream effects of website and store updates
- Website and store quality assurance
- Broken pages, redirects, and missing content
- Basic SEO and accessibility awareness
- Documentation and recurring maintenance
- Knowing when a task requires author or technical approval
Throughout the workbook, you’ll complete practical exercises based on realistic website and store situations, followed by an Answer & Discussion Guide and Skills Check to reinforce what you’ve learned.
You’ll finish with a complete Fable & Fiction Publishing website and store simulation, where you’ll audit fictional author Delaney Vale’s WordPress website and Shopify store, prioritize problems, correct what you safely can, identify what requires approval, and create a maintenance system for the future.
Designed for aspiring and developing author assistants who want practical, publishing-specific training—not generic virtual assistant advice.
Digital product. No physical item will be shipped.
Part of the 10-workbook Author Assistant Training series from A Novel Idea Publishing Education.
About Nellie H. Steele
Nellie H. Steele is an award-winning author of mysteries, romances, and adventures filled with unforgettable characters who often steal the pen right out of her hand. A lifelong bookworm and animal lover, she now spends her days surrounded by rescue pets while crafting twisty mysteries and soap-opera-style romances that keep readers hooked until the very last page. Escape into her books today—you just might find your next favorite character.