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Your website – a personal online platform for you to display your work, showcase your skills and drive business. It’s a space designed for you and available to everyone. It’s a marketing strategy, it’s an extension of your brand, it’s your voice in the industry; it’s a must.

Professionals don’t take shortcuts, they work days on end and skip weekend trips with their friends to deliver a project. But when it comes to creating their website, they shouldn’t have to sacrifice. liveBooks is a platform that provides easy-to-use website templates and award winning customer support is here to lend a hand. And you are five steps away from having a stunning responsive website.

liveBooks is a website builder that allows you to create fully responsive websites that are easy to edit and maintain. All websites are based on functional html templates designed to meet the needs of all professionals using them, regardless of their field of expertise. Each template comes with individual characteristics, be it in its design elements, layout structure or features.

liveBooks is a reliable service provider with clients all over the world, and all of them started with these 5 easy steps.

Choose a template

You have dozens of website templates to choose from. Take it as it is, or make it your own. Every liveBooks template allows you to customize its setup, layouts, fonts, colors, and page content. Pick one that suits you best, create an account and get your work online.

Upload your media

Go to your Content editor where all your pages are listed. Delete the existing images from the image library and upload your own in the Portfolio pages. Along with image files we can help you upload PDFs and add videos to your pages.

Fill in the About page

An About Page is the most visited page on every website, so creating the perfect introduction to your clients is crucial. Need help? This guide will help you write a great About page!

Add your Contact Info

An email address or a phone number are absolutely necessary to get your business to move forward. This being said, there are many other features you can use to help future clients get in touch with you: a build in maps module, social icons accessible from the menu or the footer or the ability to embed contact forms to any page. Make yourself easy to reach on more than one medium.

Choose a domain name and Publish your site

Choosing a domain name is very important for your business. You want it to be short, easy to type and remember, and be a proper extension to your brand.

Then, all you need to do is publish it. Setting up your website has never been easier, and the result will make a great impact on your brand and your future clients. If you feel you need help with any of the steps we’ve provided, please feel free to get in touch with our wonderful support team. They will be happy to assist you.

Are you ready for your beautiful new website? Let’s get started!

No matter how long you’ve worked in the wedding industry, having a strong presence online and ranking highly in search engines is now a top requirement in order to be successful.

In fact, around 83% of wedding planning in 2017 was done online — according to WeddingWire’s 2018 Newlywed Report, which collected information from nearly 18,000 newlyweds last year alone.

This means that if your wedding photography, catering, floral design, rentals, or other wedding vendor company isn’t playing the digital marketing game, you’re missing out . . . and big time.

If getting to the top page or two on Google is one of your biggest challenges, here are a few tips to help you improve your ranking starting today.

Register as Business

Chances are you’re already registered on websites like WeddingWire, but in order to really boost your SEO, you should also register as a business through a handful of others:

• Google My Business
• Yelp
• Bing Places
• Yahoo Small Business

Doing so will show search engines that you are local and/or service specific locations, and will also increase your ranking by having these trustworthy and highly used organizations link back to your own website (further driving more traffic over time).

Also, if there are other organizations, such as the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) or The American Association of Certified Wedding Planners (AACWP), be sure to sign up to be listed on their directories as well.

Build Your Blog

By far one of the most surefire ways of increasing your ranking is by generating more content online. Writing and publishing quality content on your website’s blog that potential couples will want to read does wonders for your SEO.

Not only does it tell Google that you are a leader and expert in this industry or field, but it also gives more information (think: keywords!) for the algorithm to scan through and rank you for.

Get Featured

Have dozens of weddings under your belt that you know other couples would love to see for inspiration? Submit them to publications!

If you’re the photographer, this is likely already something you’re used to. If you are a different wedding vendor, reach out to the photographer to discuss publications you think certain weddings may be a great fit for!

When other wedding inspiration websites feature your work, they provide a link back to your website to give you credit — which in turn boosts your credibility in Google’s eyes.

Start Pinning

Google isn’t the only search engine powerhouse these days! Although many users out there see Pinterest as yet another “social network”, it’s actually a search engine.

With over 175 million active monthly users and 93% of active pinners using Pinterest to plan for purchases, there is an abundance of potential customers to reach on the platform. And when you confirm (or “claim”) your website through the Pinterest app as a business, your pins can more easily link back to your website and boost your overall SEO on Google.

Start Designing Your Website Today!

liveBooks offers mobile-responsive, customizable website templates for creative professionals and businesses worldwide.

The best part? Our website designs are ready for search engines and look great on any mobile device!

We’ve also got a top-notch support team who’s here to help you every step of the way. Start for free here.

There are many reasons to use PDF files on your site. PDFs can be used for content that you’d like to allows customers to download and/or print. PDFs also provide you with an easier way to display you licences, diplomas or other certificates that set our clients apart from the norm. Don’t forget to keep SEO in mind – check out best practices for optimizing PDFs from the Search Engine Journal.

Here’s an easy guide on how to add PDFs to any liveBooks site:

1. First, you need to upload the PDFs. Go to any page and add a Resource block.

2. Add the PDFs from your computer to the Resource block. This will automatically save them in the Resource Library.

3. Now that your PDFs are uploaded, you must add links to them on your website. Switch to the Design editor and go to the page you’ve been working on. The PDFs will appear all in one column. You can leave them as they are, or you can link them to Buttons, Text or Images.

To link PDFs to your media you will need to:

A. Open the PDF in a new tab and copy its address.

B. Go to your Content editor and add the way you want to link to that PDF. In our example we’ve used a button. Paste the link address in the top field and add a title that will be written on the button. (Note! The default setting opens links in the same tab. We recommend having your links and PDFs open in a separate tab. To enable this just press the button situated at the right end of the link; it will turn blue.)

C. Delete the PDF you’ve linked to the button and preview your page. Depending on the template you’ve chosen, your button may appear differently. Feel free to edit the appearance of your buttons in the Design Editor – Sitewide – Controls – Buttons.

Deleting a PDF from a page will not remove it from the website. To remove a PDF from your website go to your resource library and delete it from there.

Want to see more liveBooks features and how they can help your business grow? Start with a free trial today!

When online portfolios emerged as a marketing tool, the layout recipe for pages was simple: a block of text and an image to go with it was the standard for most pages, while portfolios used one page for each gallery. Now, with the evolution of social media and apps, we’ve got the hang of scrolling and customer anticipate to get all the info they need from one single stacked page.

This doesn’t necessarily mean we should all build only one-page websites, but a little stacking will greatly improve the way your visitors engage with your content. A stacked page will:

• Paint a clear picture for your customers and draw their attention on all aspects of your work.
• Aid Google spiders to better understand what your website is about when they crawl it; consequently, a stacked page has a greater change to place your website higher on Google’s rankings.

Stacked Homepage

We’ve covered the guide to an ideal homepage and, as you might have guessed, it’s stacked. Use this layout to introduce your business and its many facets in a few well-placed info blocks. You want to be as clear as possible in a short, yet complex, page.

Stacked Galleries

Our platform features many gallery layout options for you to choose from, and slideshows are the best choice for stacking. Use text blocks to introduce each collection or choose a unique background color for each of them, add borders or leave them as they are, your stacked galleries will give your visitors a proper understanding of your aesthetic.

Stacked Info Page

Use this page to fully introduce yourself. An image and a block of text is great to set the tone, but keep going! Use a simple list to showcase your clients, publications and awards. Follow this with testimonials from previous projects. Add a slideshow video gallery, a service and price list, items with professionals you work with, leave nothing out.

Our platform features a great number of website templates that use stacked pages. Black&White is a great example of how a stacked homepage should look and feel, Audio used stacked galleries, while Flash has a one-page layout. These are just a few examples of how we use stacking when designing our website templates. See for yourself with a free trial!