Basic Author Website Design

A basic author website design on the platform MailerLite gives you a highly attractive online author website that has all the elegance of a custom site but at a low cost. With this site, you can share your info, sell your books, provide samples of your work and even send newsletters– or simply let it serve as a beautiful business card on the web.

The ready-made templates and “drag and drop” interface make it easy for you to learn how to add content and additional features so you can make your website work best for you.

MailerLite lets you choose from two options:

• a free website that includes eye-catching templates but has the MailerLite branding, MailerLite domain, and some limitations, such as no blog capability
• a paid version for $10 USD/month that includes no MailerLite branding, allows you to add your own custom domain (purchased separately), and far more flexibility, such as blog capability, and more.

Additional Benefit: Easy Email Marketing

Because MailerLite is an email marketing service, you get the added benefit of being able to create subscriber forms that you can embed or use as pop-ups on your site, which allow you to collect email address for a newsletter: all in one platform!

Whether you’re building your first author website or you’re giving your existing website a refresh, if what you’re looking for is a beautiful place for people to land, where they can get to know you and your work, or even if you want to keep a blog, sell your books, and collect subscribers for a newsletter list, the MailerLite option is a terrific one!

*Email marketing set-up, landing page, email content or editing, or funnel creation available an an hourly add-on service.

What You Get with Your Basic Author Website Design

Mailerlite offers authors an attractive platform with user-friendly features. Whether you choose the free or the paid plan, you Website, hosting, domain*, and email marketing are included. A great out-of-box solution!

• Mailerlite’s free plan includes a MailerLite-branded domain (URL) and hosting and email marketing (for a newsletter).
• The paid plan ($10 USD/month to Mailerlite) offers clients the option of purchasing a custom domain (billed separately), as well as website hosting, email marketing for newsletters, a blog, and sales.

Additional Design Included:

• A tutorial to help you learn how to update and manage your own author website
• Set up Google Analytics
• Set up and submit site to Google Search Console site map (which indexes your site and makes it visible in web searches)

$900 (2 payments of $450 each)

How It Works

After purchasing this author website design, we’ll send you a questionnaire to give us a detailed sense of how you want to be represented on your site. We will then give you instructions for uploading your logo and other brand-specific info and content you wish to use for your 5 pages.

Note: you will need to create a MailerLite account prior to the website design.

Paid plan users:

• Domain: You may use the Mailerlite custom domain or purchase it from a third-party provider such as Namecheap or GoDaddy.
• Email Marketing: If you intend to use MailerLite’s email marketing feature to obtain subscribers and send out newsletters or other content, it is advised that you buy a Google Workspace email address that is unique to your domain for legitimacy and best email delivery rates.

If you need help opening the account, buying your domain, securing and tethering the Google Workspace email address, or with any other tech support, choose a 1-hour Add-on, and we will get you set up and on your way!

Your Author Website Designer

Astrid Sucipto-Low

Astrid is a marketing professional with 10 years of B2B marketing experience and has been serving entrepreneurs for 17 years with the technical work of website design and email marketing funnels. A published author of workbooks for children, teachers, and entrepreneurs (forthcoming), Astrid is comfortable with and sensitive to the needs of business, nonfiction, and fiction writers.