WordPress

Okay, so you’ve started building your online presence. You’ve got an author page on Facebook, you’ve got a Twitter account, you’ve posted the covers of your books onto Pinterest, you’ve got an Instagram where you post pictures of your cat. You’ve even got a website, and you’re updating your blog a couple of times a month. Sounds like you’re off […]

  Here at Clockpunk Studios, we got our start designing and building beautiful, functional websites for authors, and that’s still our focus. Why authors? Lots of reasons. For one, here at Clockpunk Studios, we are authors. Our founder and primary web designer Jeremiah Tolbert has had stories in Lightspeed, Fantasy, Interzone, Asimov’s, and more. Molly Tanzer’s first novel Vermilion just

Hi Clockpunk Studios readers… Molly here. I’ve been working for Jeremy for I think about three years now. I’m his Administrative Overlord, which means I handle some of the more random tasks associated with running a web design studio. I also help with some back-end WordPress stuff, and I (obviously) blog. Oh, and I work for The Big Click, the crime

Just about everyone would like to make a few extra bucks, and authors would always like to sell more books. Luckily, there’s an easy and painless way for our author clients here at Clockpunk Studios to do both at the same time! If you’re a veteran of the Internet, then chances are you’re already at least passingly familiar with affiliate programs,

Many of our clients already have some sort of website when they come to us. Sometimes it’s an older, out-of-date site that needs an upgrade; in other instances, it’s just a simple WordPress, Blogger, Livejournal, or other sort of blog without its own domain. Yet other clients have no web presence at all when they ring us up, and that’s

Here at Clockpunk Studios, we’ve been building websites for a long time, and we know of a lot of ways to do it. These days we primarily use custom WordPress themes to build websites for our clients, so obviously we think WordPress is pretty great. But like any system—especially one as big as WordPress has become in the almost 12

We’re big believers in transparency here at Clockpunk Studios. We want our clients to know what they’re getting into, and then what they’re getting, every step of the way. Of course, when you sign up for a Clockpunk Site, we’ll talk you through the process of getting you the website of your dreams, but for those who are just considering

We’ve talked previously and at some length about the best blogging practices for writers who want to increase the reach and effectiveness of their online presence, but in today’s increasingly connected world, blogging is only part of the puzzle. Authors who really want to get their names out there need to also be present on social media in a big