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In spite of another somewhat-embarrassing-for-all-involved puppy-related debacle when it came to the nominees for the 2016 Hugo Awards, the winners who were announced at WorldCon over the weekend were a resounding rebuff to the nostalgia crowd and a reminder that science fiction is about looking forward, not looking back. We here at Clockpunk Studios would like to offer our heartfelt […]
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Here at Clockpunk Studios, we are big believers in the WordPress engine, and we’re also big believers in SEO. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is how you make sure that your website is easy for search engines to find, which in turn makes it easy for readers and customers to find, and, after all, what good is a website if
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Most of our clients here at Clockpunk Studios are authors, editors, or publishers. Heck, all of us are authors ourselves! Which means that we know first hand how tough it can be to receive a dreaded one-star review on Amazon or Goodreads. Fortunately, a bad review doesn’t have to spoil your day, and it certainly doesn’t mean the end of
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Here at Clockpunk Studios, we primarily build our websites using custom-designed templates on the WordPress platform. So the question is bound to come up from time to time: Why use WordPress, when there are so many other content management systems available to authors, publishers, and web designers when it comes to building websites? At Clockpunk Studios, we love WordPress, and
While we here at Clockpunk Studios are particularly proud of the launch of Congress Magazine, thanks to the involvement of Editrix and Clockpunk collaborator Molly Tanzer, Congress was by no means our first magazine rodeo. In fact, we’ve designed the websites–and done other back-end work–for a number of major magazines across a variety of different genres. Here are a few of the other
We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to all the Hugo Award Nominees, those whose works were deemed to have sufficient artistic merit to make the list of finalists for science fiction’s most prestigious award. And while there has been some controversy, to put it mildly, surrounding the Hugo Awards for the last couple of years, this year’s awards
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Here at Clockpunk Studios, we design all kinds of websites, for all kinds of clients. But our focus from day one has been on designing the very best websites for authors, editors, publishers, and magazines, and there’s one reason for that: We’re writers too, just like you are. As such, we like to think that we understand where writers are
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At Clockpunk Studios, our focus is on building websites. We especially love building beautiful, functional, intuitive, and fully-customized websites for authors, editors, publishers, and magazines. But while websites may be our primary focus, they’re far from all that we do. Clockpunk Studios is a web design company run for authors by authors. Every member of our staff has put in our time
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We’re all told not to judge a book by its cover, and as authors, most of us really hope that people heed that good advice. But when it comes right down to it, all of us make at least some of our decisions based on aesthetic considerations. We may not judge the book by its cover, but if there are
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Here at Clockpunk Studios we’re big fans of WordPress. That may not come as much of a surprise, since we use it to power most of the websites that we build. It seems that we’re not the only ones who like WordPress, though. In fact, WordPress currently powers more than 25% of the Internet! Not just blogs or author websites–the
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