I’m just getting started converting a few PDFs (with the Word source files) to the Amazon Kindle ebook format. Translation: No idea what I’m doing just yet.
I did, however, find a few “tutorials” online that I’ll need to pore through, probably over the Thanksgiving break. Here they are in case you want to do the same. (Comment please if you know of any others I should check out.)
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I figure I’ll start doing these reports periodically. I’m aiming to keep the software to totally free selections (not trials), but I anticipate occasionally mentioning products that’ll cost something to acquire if they’re cost-effectively that good. But that shouldn’t happen too often.
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To use one of my favorite WordPress themes, I don’t have to go very far: The WordPress Default theme is built into every WordPress installation. Some of us still like to call it Kubrick, the original theme this now ubiquitous blog design is heavily based on.
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A favicon (short for “favorites icon”), as you may know, is like a logo of sorts that’s visually associated with your website/blog. It’s tiny — at least 16×16 pixels — and it’s used by modern browsers, displaying it next to your site’s or page’s name on tabs and bookmarks. Thing is, they’re not the easiest things in the world to create.
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If you’re like me, you’ve got lots of little “website/blog projects” in various states of completion. Here, from Line25, are a few excellent tips on how to design truly useful (not to mention cool) “Coming Soon” pages for those projects.
Read Tips for Designing an Awesome Coming Soon Page »
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On an aside from yesterday’s post… what would I do if I couldn’t design my way out of a paper bag, anticipate that I’ll be needing a bunch of covers down the road, and don’t have (or don’t want to spend) the funds to pay a pro designer to do all those covers?
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Continuing on with my notes on getting Teachpreneur up and running…
As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, there’s a third product development software category ebook publishers will probably need to think about: graphics software. Tools like Adobe Photoshop. At this stage, for designing ebook covers.
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I’ve added a Colophon page. A colophone, as you may know, is traditionally a page or small section at the back of a book with book production notes and details (typography, designer, paper, printing method, etc., and more recently, software used, that sort of thing). So, I’ve decided to borrow the term for the Wordpreneur blog’s production notes.
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