Authors OnLine -

In our continuing quest to improve and upgrade our service to authors and bookbuyers alike, we have today launched a new version of our website, which we hope will improve and enhance your use of it.

We have attempted to make it even more user friendly, quicker and easier to navigate, better to read, more appealing on the eye and very much ‘state of the art’ technology.

New Extraction Software – AonL Zip Utility
We have also developed our own decompression software for unzipping e-books, giving the purchaser the choice of using an existing proprietary brand such as ‘WinZip’ or ‘WinRar’, which may already be installed on their computer, or downloading and installing ours. This takes a matter of seconds and is specifically designed to unzip PDF and LIT files – it will not unzip any other type of files. It can be downloaded via the ‘Your Purchased eBooks’ page.

New and improved features to the website
We have redesigned the look of everything from the front page onwards and added in some new features.

1. In addition to our normal search pages you can now look for a book title using the search box above the menu tabs.
   
   
2. All links are clearly marked in orange – if it’s orange it’s a link!
   
   
3. Our latest articles now have a direct link off the front page.
   
   
4. You can now read the sample, synopsis, reviews and book information across the full width.
   
   
5. Click on the Tabs and the submenus are on the left-hand side.
   
   
6. Click on an cover image from any synopsis, sample or review page and, where a Paperback or Hardback version exists, the full image of the book will appear. Just click on it again and it will return to the previous page.
   
   
7. We have improved the buying procedure to eliminate some of the problems occasionally experienced by purchasers – we hope you will find it easier and more intuitive to use.
   
   
8. Once you have completed the payment procedure you will find a link to the download page to save the book to your computer. You no longer have to download immediately, you can return at a later date and do it then.
   
   
9. If you have purchased e-books from us in the past, by going to the ‘Your Purchased eBooks’ page and entering your e-mail address, you can view all your previous purchases, or as I said above, download any books you have not previously saved to your computer.
   
   
10. We have added in a new support page, which will expanded as needed
    
    
11. We have reinstated our external links page and will be putting relevant links up under various sub-menus to make it easier for you to find the correct information.
    
    
12. The link to the Authors Area is visible at all times from any menu.
    
    
13. We use the latest ‘mod-rewrite’ technology which will improve our search engine ranking, and make sure that links to our previous website are automatically redirected to their correct page on the new website. Also if you look at the address bar in your browser when viewing a book, you will see it shows as the title of the book rather than the obscure hieroglyphics of php, make links much easier.
    

Other features will be added including our own automated bookshop for buying our paperbacks, a stats page to show our best sellers, and a page showing more of our latest published books. We are finding that we publish so fast that our latest books are leaving the front page far too quickly.

If you have any comments please send us an e-mail with your suggestions to support@authorsonline.co.uk  - meanwhile please enjoy our new website.