How to prepare your E-book pages

E-books are interactive and can contain live links, graphics,
forms, JavaScript, embedded video, can be protected via
password, search capabilities and more.

E-books can be distributed on CD, floppy disk, or made available
from your web site for instant download, etc.

Creating an E-book is just like creating a web site. Simply
create your HTML pages like you would for your web site.

Now, 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.

I'll show you exactly how to do this -for FREE- in the next
chapter.