If you're an online writer, you should definitely consider developing a website.
Perhaps you've been thinking about it, but you have some questions about the process...

This article will help to point you in the right direction and provide answers to questions like:

• Why should you create a site?
• What should you feature on your site?
• How do you get started?
• Who can you look to for examples?
• Where can you find resources on the web?

Writers should produce a website to tell the world they exist!

Your own special place on the Internet can offer readers, publishers, businesses, other writers and prospective clients a glimpse into your world.

Features on your site can include:

1. Your resume
2. References (with names, titles, addresses, phone numbers and/or email contacts)
3. A list of your services (what type of writing you do - creative, journalistic, academic, medical, business, marketing, public relations etc.)
4. A sampling of your writing (full text articles, reports and/or features previously published or available for free publication)
5. Links to your writings on the web (work on other websites - poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, commentary or other contributions)
6. An option for viewers to access your writings via autoresponder (see page referenced below for where to get one for free - these sites will tell you how to use autoresponders too!)

Getting started is a fairly simple process with today's variety of free services available online. Once you have created your site, you will need to promote it on the web.

Go to this page

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art454.asp

to browse the lists of:

Free Website Providers

Free Autoresponders

Free Web Promotion Resources

Free Graphics & More

Free Tools

and you will also find links to some other writer's websites for ideas...

Danielle Hollister

Danielle Hollister is a single mom of a seven year-old son, who is her personal assistant in their home office, where she has been working as a freelance writer, editor and researcher for more than 10 years. Danielle′s work has been featured in online newsletters, like Briefme.com's Books & Literature ezine, on various websites, and in print publications. Before expanding her career focus to the Internet, she worked for more than three years as a freelance reporter for The Patriot-News, the only daily newspaper in her hometown of Harrisburg, which is the Capitol of Pennsylvania. She also spent two years as the assistant writer to the Director of Public Relations at Penn State Harrisburg, after graduating with high honors from the University with a Bachelor's Degree in Humanitites/Communications. While in college, she worked part-time to pay for her education as a Special Events Coordinator for the Central PA Chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and as an Editorial Assistant for Stackpole Publishing in Harrisburg.