Recently a friend pointed out that if he typed in nathanlowell.com, it came to my website but then he couldn’t find my books. I realized that he did something perfectly normal that I never would have considered. The links were there but hard to find. There was a big picture of me, but a lot of little blocks of text.
This is the result of that conversation.
Whether I’ll move more of my blogging here, or just use it as an umbrella to link all the various Nathan Lowell properties remains to be seen. At least now, you should be able to find my books.
Special thanks to Allison Gamblin of GetFoundConsulting.com for putting up with my weird views of marketing and for making my website look nice in spite of it.
Check out my Catalog for all my books and audio, Webography to see my other sites around the web, and Multimedia to see my interviews and podcast works.
Have only taken a quick wander around, but accessibility looks great. Thanks to both Nathan and Allison for “doing it right!”
Looking forward to reading more of your work, Nathan, and I hope the new Web site brings you lots of new readers who will enjoy your work as much as I do.
Thanks, Jennifer. I’m really pleased with the way it’s come together 🙂
Wow what a transformation. The site looks really great.
Nathan, your picture at the top is my new visual for a weathered Ishmael Wong. Just a thought, how would one age on a space faring ship? Sort of changes the visual expectation of a seasoned master.
It’s quite a change and I really can’t thank Allison enough for managing this project. She did a lot of work while I was busy writing Zypheria’s Call.
Fantastic job on the website!! One complaint for me is that a separate window/tab is opened when going to new pages from the navigation. I was surprised to see so many tabs open after looking around. Some say it keeps the viewer from losing track of the site, but I think that is mainly for going to offsite links.
I didn’t find the RSS feed right away because I was looking for the color and not just the shape. I like the look of all those social media icons in gray, but they might be easier to see in color.
This is really a very navigable and easy to view site and it has important things on it. High praise to the designer!
Thanks Anita.
We’ll look into putting in colored versions of those buttons. (Not sure if they come in the package or not). I wondered about that too because “grayed out” always meant “inactive” to me, but the truth is that there’s nothing “grayed out” there. All the links are live (or we didn’t include it in the list).
Still, something to consider. 🙂
Nathan, did you have any comment about the links that open up a new window/tab? I’m talking about those up in the top navigation bar. For example under Author, Awards and Nominations will open up in the same window, but if you go to Catalog/Novels or most of the other links, a new window or tab is opened up. I feel that they should all work like the Awards and Nominations link.
I mentioned it to Allie. I’m not sure if it’s something that’ll get changed or not.
I agree – the opening if new tabs is annoying and unexpected. But the site looks good and I love your work!
Brian