There’s great news for authors who need a website. You don’t need to hire a company to build one for you. You can do it yourself, and it’s easier than you think. In this article, you will learn how to build your very own professional author website. 

I used to run one of the top author web design companies, and I’ve built many author websites. Building a website only takes about a day, and I’m going to teach you how to do it. Once you learn how to build websites, you can even earn money building them for other authors. 

Many people are willing to pay another author $500 to do what I am about to teach you. And $500 isn’t a bad wage for a single day. If you built one website per day for 20 days, you could earn $10,000 in a month.

But to build a website, you must first become a webmaster.

But don’t despair!

How to Become a Webmaster

Once you learn how to think like a webmaster, you will become more tech-savvy than you can imagine. 

So here are three baby steps to get you started.

Baby Step 1: Push the Button

The biggest barrier keeping authors from learning more about technology is fear. Most people are afraid to push or click the button because they don’t know what will happen. Rather than finding out, they stop working, get frustrated, and stew about what they don’t know. 

 Tech-savvy people, on the other hand, push the button to find out what it does. 

People who push (or click) a button to find out what it does have fewer tech headaches than the folks who are afraid to push the button. 

Fear of what will happen if you push the button keeps people perpetually anxious with technology and actually contributes to their tech trouble. Simply pushing the button may reveal your next right step.

Often, the answer to your question is on the page right in front of you. But when you’re in a state of tech-panic, you get tunnel vision and can’t see the answer.

To overcome this fear of pushing the button, connect with your inner child.   

Why are children so good with technology? Because as soon as they get a new device, they push all the buttons to see what each one does. Hand a teen a smartphone, and they’ll go straight to the settings just to see what changes when they toggle the defaults on and off.

This sense of childlike wonder and experimentation is critical if you want to improve your technical know-how. It’s the first step to becoming a webmaster, and it will also make you a happier person in general. 

Baby Step 2: Pay for a Password Manager

Building a website means keeping track of a lot of usernames and passwords. Each username and password must be strong and unique. If you use the same four or five passwords on each website, you will get hacked. A hacker only needs to hack one of those websites, and then he’ll have your password for everything.

The solution is to use a cloud-based password manager and use a separate password for each website. During our Book Launch Blueprint Course, the most frequently asked question was about how to log in to the website where the course was hosted. 

People without password managers spend a lot of time stuck and stressed by login pages. Using a password manager will alleviate the anxiety you feel every time you’re asked to log in.