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Greetings, first post from a confused new person.

My dad has written several children's ebooks. I am going to help him build a website even though mine is broken at this time... Before I start I have a few questions and am wondering what the 'general' consensus is on how to go about building an ebook website?

I have Dreamweaver 8. I know it fairly well and wish to use this.

-Are there some excellent templates out there for ebook sites? I am sure there are, but wondering if people could direct me to actual known excellent templates?

-Is .css a good direction to go or does it cause some unknown challenges?

-Are there actual programs that I should consider buying to BUILD, sell, and protect the ebooks?

-Or is building in Dreamweaver and templates just fine and should I seriously consider buying a program for selling distributing and protecting ebooks?

-I know there are many ways and reasons to protect ebks, but I am unsure as to which direction we will be going and why? So feel free to add input here as well.

-Do you prefer paypall, plastic, or what?

This is all new to me and I am hoping this is the best if not one of the best sites to learn on. I have done a few searches as I am not totally helpless, but I am not finding the info I need easily.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Peace and Blessings
Rylos07
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  • I'm not familiar with Dreamweaver so I can't comment on that, I prefer Wordpress.

    E-junkie might make a good platform for storing and distributing the ebooks and there's an active discussion on a free coupon for them that'll get you a couple of months to figure it out.

    Paypal, love it or hate it, is the standard for accepting payments and people can pay through it with a credit card as well.

    Hope that helps.
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    • Thanks Ouroboros,

      So you make or are saying that it works well to make the web page in WordPress and then add in everything else? Any WP templates that you might suggest?

      Dreamweaver is just the html editor. I do not care for frontpage and wanted to learn some beyond just simple objects so I bought DW.

      That is what I figured regarding paypall.

      Peace and Blessings
  • I have one big question.

    Is there some reason you don't want to go to CreateSpace.com and put them for sale on Amazon as real, physical books?

    If they're not black and white, I understand why you don't put them on Kindle. If they are, well, that's another big question.
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    • They are small, short children's books.

      We can put them on Amazon and have talked about it. However, one still must do their own advertising and promotions for it, plus pay Amazon something.

      So we thought we would put one of the books on Amazon/Kindle for free to get people interested. Then they can come to my fathers web site to order more. Not sure if or how we can do this. But figured we could put something for free on there?

      Createspace.com thus far, to me, appears to be for hard copy books? Not seeing anything for eBooks? My father is very very poor and I am a bit better, but not able to pay a couple $thousand for hard copy books at this time. That will hopefully come later.

      You are hinting at a color challenge for Kindle? Doh. Did not even think of that? Some of his picts are color, some art is color, some is B&W.

      Thanks
      Peace and Blessings
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    Old ?'s, from new person

    Greetings, first post from a confused new person. My dad has written several children's ebooks. I am going to help him build a website even though mine is broken at this time... Before I start I have a few questions and am wondering what the 'general' consensus is on how to go about building an ebook website?