Monday, November 12, 2007

How to Prepare your EBook pages

Let's begin with the very first steps you need to take before you compose your E-book.If you want to have people download your E-book, there are a few rules to follow.

The purpose in following these rules is to ensure that you will send out a perfect E-book of high quality. Of course you already know that your spelling, grammar structure and link relevance should be checked twice to guarantee an excellent product.

Once your E-book pages are written (this can be in .HTML or Word), you need to compose them. Do this just like you create a web site. -Put all your pages and images in one directory on your hard disk, give it the name of your E-book, and make sure that you make a back up copy of them, in case the worst should happen to your PC system. You wouldn't believe how many people forget to make back ups, and find themselves in complete dispair when bad luck strikes.

Think about all those hours of inspiration and perspiration that get wasted! If you design your E-book pages, try to focus on being consistent and informative.

* Make it easy for your readers to navigate trough your book pages, or they will skip your material.

* Put navigation links on every book page.

* Do not use fancy colors or buttons. Or have you ever seen a newspaper or magazine with orange text on a yellow background? -There’s no need to revolutionize the way publishing is done with your E-book. :-)

* Check and re-check to see if all the hyperlinks or forms work, and if all the images show up correctly. - An often made mistake in E-books is not linking the images or banners to the right file or URL.

* Try to limit the use of images, because they take up a lot of space, and your E-book should not be too large to download.

* Put your ad banners (if you use any) at the bottom of your book pages. -Remember, never distract your readers! Once this is done, you can create an opening page. This page shows up first when your E-book gets opened.

Place your E-book title on this page, and make an clickable index of all the different pages or chapters. Now that all the pages and images are properly linked, you’re ready to compress your book pages into E-book format.

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