Al's website is a "home grown" website created using a popular website building program Microsoft FrontPage 2003. The website contains the following basic pages that all websites should have:

• Home, attracts attention, provides key information, and entices the visitor to explore the site.
• Books, contains information on Al's books that are currently available for sale including links to a point of purchase.
• About Al, contains Al's professional biography. Notice that it does not contain personal information that he wouldn't want everyone to know.
• Events, let Al's fans know about book signings, personal apprearances, conferences etc.
• Contact Us, tells visitors how they can get in touch with Al, (or his agent, publicist, publisher, etc.)
• Links, help in two ways. First they let visitors find the websites of Al's professional associates and second they can help search engines find Al's website through connections he gets back from the sites he links to.

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FrontPage is no longer available, it has been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web, but the general techniques are the same. In addition to these Microsoft programs, there are a number of website development programs you can buy, and many more are provided by your web hosting provider. The following resources can give you some additional information.

• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Expression Web

Like all of our authors, Al is a fictitious character and you can't really buy his books, but just for fun we thought we'd display some in a fictitious bookstore, click on a cover to see... because, of course, you will want to have real links to your works.