Creating a professional author website can seem overwhelming, especially for writers more comfortable with prose than pixels. Many authors struggle with translating their creative vision into a functional website. Questions about design aesthetics, navigation, mobile responsiveness, and integrating essential tools like mailing lists or a catalog of books can make the process feel insurmountable.
Enter Breakdance Website Builder, a powerful and intuitive WordPress tool designed to make website creation accessible to everyone!
That's the real key to why Breakdance is the best choice for authors. It takes all the complex technical challenges of website design and wraps them up in an easy-to-use, pick-up-and-play interface that comes packed with nearly every tool you need to build a fast, secure, and scalable author website.
Let's look in detail at why Breakdance is the ultimate website builder for authors and how it can help you create a stunning online presence that grows your audience and drives book sales.
Breakdance Website Builder is an advanced WordPress plugin that enables users to create highly customised, visually appealing websites without needing to write a single line of code*. With its drag-and-drop interface, pre-designed elements, and extensive customisation options, it’s perfect for authors looking to build a website to attract their target audience, grow their mailing lists, and boost their book sales.
Breakdance makes website design easy with its intuitive drag-and-drop editor. Authors can arrange text, images, and interactive elements with ease, ensuring their website looks exactly how they envision it.
For authors short on time, Breakdance offers pre-built templates tailored for various industries, including personal branding. These templates can be customised to suit your unique author brand.
Your readers access your website from various devices. Breakdance ensures your website looks flawless on desktops, tablets, and smartphones, providing a seamless browsing experience.
Breakdance is built with search engine optimisation (SEO) in mind. Its clean code, fast loading speeds, and integrated tools help authors rank higher in search results, driving more traffic to their website.
Breakdance integrates with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), ACPT, Metabox, and other custom post type and custom field plugins. These tools allow authors to create dynamic and structured content, such as books, newsletter archives, and events. By utilising these plugins, authors can streamline the management of their website content, making updates and additions efficient and organised. Combined with Breakdance's advanced yet easy-to-use template builder, authors can create custom post types for books filled with dynamic data for book covers, series details, reviews, and more.
Whether it’s email marketing platforms like MailerLite or automation platforms like Pabbly Connect, Breakdance supports integrations that help authors engage their readers, grow their mailing list, and deliver lead magnets such as free eBooks.
Even if you’re new to website building, Breakdance’s straightforward interface and robust support make it easy to create a polished website. Using Breakdance is even easier after watching the Build an Author Website course from Writers Building Websites.
Breakdance empowers authors to showcase their creativity through unique layouts and designs. Highlight your latest release, feature fan reviews, or share an excerpt with ease.
Breakdance offers excellent value for its features. It eliminates the need to buy themes, multiple plugins, or hire a web designer, saving authors hundreds or even thousands of pounds.
With an active user community and detailed documentation, Breakdance ensures you’ll always find help when you need it.
Many authors have already harnessed Breakdance to create websites that captivate readers and drive book sales. Visit Breakdance’s Showcase for inspiration.
It comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee, giving you plenty of time to see if it's a fit for you.
Take away all the guesswork from setting up your author website. Follow along with our 100% free course and see exactly how to get the most out of the Breakdance Website Builder.
Breakdance works seamlessly with most WordPress hosting providers. Providers like Cloudways offer optimal setups for Breakdance.
After setting up WordPress on your hosting account, install Breakdance and explore its features.
Use the drag-and-drop editor to personalise your site. Add essential pages such as a Home Page, About Page, and Book Pages.
Utilise Breakdance’s SEO-friendly tools to optimise your content for search engines. Ensure your metadata, alt tags, and internal links are set up correctly. See the Author Website Playbook for a complete guide to making the most of SEO.
Once your website is polished and ready, publish it and share it with your readers!
For authors serious about growing their brand and connecting with readers, Breakdance Website Builder is a game-changer. Its powerful features, ease of use, and flexibility make it the ideal choice for creating a professional author website that stands out in today’s competitive digital landscape.
Ready to build your author website? Click the button below to get your risk free copy of the Breakdance Website Builder today and take the first steps towards a bigger audience and bigger book sales.
*P.S. the current version of Breakdance, like all website and page builders, defaults to using pixels for font sizes and spacing. That's not the best way to make a website as responsive and accessible as possible. Luckily it's easy to educate Breakdance to use 'root em' (REM) instead of pixels using a single, easy to apply, line of CSS code. You can see how easy it is in this lesson from the Build an Author Website course.