Magazine Website Starter Kit
Create an Awesome Magazine or Newspaper Website Today!
Whether you’re looking to cover the news in your local area or in a specific industry or in a specific aspect of life, let’s work together to help create an amazing website that will capture the attention of your readers and keep them coming back to you for the latest news, stories and other great content!
Share Amazing Stories
Tell the Great Stories in Your Area or Industry to the World!
Storytelling is one of the oldest traditions in human history. Whether through spoken word or written down stories, we love to pass down stories from generation to generation talking about, well, anything we can think of.
And with websites, it’s even easier for you to tell the real-life stories that you want people to know about. Maybe you want to cover the news in your local area, holding those in power accountable for their actions and telling the stories of your neighbors. Or maybe you want to cover an industry, like covering a sports league or team. Or maybe you want to talk about fashion, movies or anything else. Really, in today’s world the sky is the limit for the stories you tell.
No matter what types of stories you want to tell online, the Magazine Website Starter Kit will help you get started quickly with an amazing website to tell those stories. You’ll be able to craft your stories in interesting ways with multimedia. You’ll also get built-in SEO help so that more people can find your stories through search results. And your website will be extremely easy to manage and grow.
So start telling the stories you want to tell online today!
A Helping Hand
Build Your Website with Professional Help
Creating a news or magazine website might seem easy. After all, there are so many tools that say that it is.
But building a website that does what you need it to — like display articles and stories in an interesting way, build email subscription lists and add in ads and subscriptions so you can make money, etc. — can be a challenge. What tools do you use to build the website? How do you take payments for subscriptions? How do you create a website that helps tell amazing stories that people want to read?
With the Magazine Website Starter Kit, you won’t have to worry about any of that. Over the course of my time creating websites, I’ve learned what works and doesn’t work and can build you the solution that’s going to work the best for your website. And once the website is launched, I’ll make sure you know how to do everything you need to do on your website.
In the end, you’ll end up with a perfect website that’s going to help you and your website thrive in today’s world. And every step of the way, there will be someone who can help guide you along the right path.
Look Like a Professional
Take Your Coverage to the Next Level
A website can really take your storytelling to the next level. You’re not bound by the limits of what’s possible with pen and paper. Instead, the sky becomes the limit for the stories you tell.
You’ll be able to build a website where you can share stories with the entire world. If you’re focused on local coverage, you can build a place that becomes the paper of record for your community where people can learn about what’s going on. Or if you’re covering a sports league, you can build a place where people from all over the world come to read about the latest games and the stories about the players in the league. Or maybe you’re covering an industry where anyone can learn more through the stories you tell.
Whatever your niche is, you’ll be able to tell them in incredible ways with this website, from adding striking photos, videos, infographics and even interactive elements. You can make your website look just as professional as the New York Times or Time Magazine. And you’ll be able to do it all without having to mess with any code. I’ll do all of the building for you. You’ll just need to focus on telling great stories.
Your website is the place to take your coverage to the next level!
Easy to Manage
Easily Create and Manage All of Your Stories
Your new magazine website will be built on WordPress, the best open source content management system out there today.
This means that you’ll be able to manage all of your content with an easy-to-use interface without needing help from another developer. You can create new stories inside of the block editor, which allows you to add cool formatting to your stories, like seamlessly integrating photos and videos into your stories.
Plus, you’ll be able to add in more plugins to add functionality to your website. Want your website to be subscriber based? You can add in a plugin that can hide content behind a paywall. Want an easy way to manage ads on your site? There’s a plugin for that with no code experience required.
It’s the perfect way to create the magazine website you’ve always wanted!
Choose How Your Stories Look
You won’t be locked into one single way all of your stories look with your new website. You won’t have to just add the text of stories and let it look like all the other stories. Instead, you’ll be able to use the block editor to add in different layout options, add in media, create a parallax effect and so much more!
Craft Amazing Longform Content
Longform stories are great. They allow you to really take your time telling a great story and allow your readers a wide open view into the story you’re telling. With your website, you’ll be able to augment your longform stories with pullquotes, images, videos, graphics and whatever else you need to tell an amazing story.
Add Video, Audio and Other Types of Content
Stories need to be more than just text on a page to capture your readers’ attention. But that won’t be a problem with your website. You’ll be able to add spectacular images, great video and other pieces of multimedia content to your stories to keep them engaged and coming back.
Manage It All Easily with WordPress
WordPress powers over 40 percent of the internet today and for good reason. It makes it easy for people to manage their website’s content without needing any code. You’ll be able to easily add and update your stories, add new pages, change content on your homepage and so much more.
Get Found in Searches
Increase Your Reach with Great SEO
Search Engine Optimization is crucial for every website out there. But it’s extremely important and a bigger challenge for any news or magazine website out there.
You need your website’s SEO to be the best that it can be so that people can find your stories when they are searching on Google and other search engines for topics that you’ve written about. That’s where most of your traffic is going to come from.
With the Magazine Website Starter Kit, you won’t have to worry about the code of your website hurting your SEO. I’ll be adding in everything your site needs to help it play nice with the search engines so you can appear higher in the rankings.
All you’ll need to do is focus on telling incredible stories!
Build a Your Magazine Website
The Five Steps to Build Your Own Magazine or News Website
The Magazine Website Starter Kit cuts out a lot of the headaches and roadblocks that can accompany a custom website build. The result is a quicker and cheaper website for you and your awesome website, but with the same quality. Here’s how it works.
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Sign Up for a Website
The process starts when you sign up for a Magazine Website Starter Kit. Here you can select the type of add ons for your website.
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Select a Design for Your Website
After you purchase a kit, we’ll set up a time for you to pick a design you like for your new website. And don’t worry; if you’re not sure what you want, I’ll have plenty of options for you to choose from.
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I’ll Add in the Content for You
Once you’ve picked a design, I’ll get to work setting up everything on the website. In addition to adding in all of your content, I’ll also set up the chosen design and add in the plugins that will help your website be amazing.
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Final Review and Website Launch
Once everything has been added to the website and is ready to go, you’ll get a chance to look over everything and suggest changes. Then when you’re ready, the website will go live. You’re now online with an awesome website!
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Learn How to Use and Grow Your Website
It doesn’t just stop when your website is launched. You’ll get live training on how to use your website. Plus, you’ll have access to a knowledge base to review how to do everything on your website. And the WordPress Website Care plan you select will help keep your website awesome and help you grow your website.
What You Will Get
In addition to setting up a website, here’s what else your website will come with to make it the best that it can be.
Website Designed to Meet Your Needs
Everyone who wants to tell stories online needs a website. But those needs for a website is different. The Magazine Website Starter Kit was created to help deliver a website that meets your needs. No matter what you need to create, the website starter kit will deliver the website that you need!
Quick Turnaround Time at an Affordable Price
The Magazine Website Starter Kit is designed to help you get a professional website launched quickly at an affordable price. Your new website will be live in less than two weeks (and sometimes as quick as five days). And don’t worry about exorbitant costs as the starting price for a new website is more than affordable. It will fit the budget for anyone!
Easily Manage All of Your Content
Your new website will be built using WordPress, the world’s leading content management system. This means you’ll have an easy time managing all of the content on your website. Adding and updating pages on your website will be quick and simple to make your life much easier.
The Best Performance Possible
Speed is everything in today’s world. Your website will need to load quickly to keep people on your website. And with a Magazine Website Starter Kit, it will! Your website will be built with speed in mind so that it loads as quickly as possible. You’ll never have to worry about your website loading slowly again.
Google Business Profile Set Up
A Google Business Profile is crucial for any news organization. It’s how you can easily get found in Google “near me” or Map searches. But getting it set up can be a time-consuming process. With the purchase of an Magazine Website Starter Kit, I’ll set up a Google Business Profile account for your community. That way you can quickly start to show up in the searches that matter.
Managed Hosting
Never worry about website hosting again with the website starter kit. Your website will be built on WP Engine, one of the best web hosts out there. That means you’ll never have to worry about your website being down or running into security issues. Plus, I’ll manage all of the WordPress core, plugin and theme updates. All you’ll have to worry about is running and growing your awesome website!
Search Engine Optimization Help
SEO is crucial for every website out there so that it can get found in Google searches. But it can be a tricky thing to learn, and it’s a time-consuming process. Your website will be built from the ground up with SEO in mind. From plugins that will give your SEO a boost to using all of the best practices, your website will be set up to help you get found in those all important search results.
Additional Add Ons to Power Your Website
Need a little bit more functionality for your website? No worries! You’ll have the ability to choose add ons to attach to your website. From creating custom landing pages to building custom blog templates to adding in integrations for your forms and more, you’ll be able to do whatever you want with your website!
Training and a Knowledge Base
You won’t be left hanging once the website is live. I’ll provide you with recorded training for how to use your specific website that you can refer back to as many times as you need. And you’ll have access to a knowledge base for how to do things, like add in products, boost your SEO, best practices and more. Oh, and you can always ask me a question. You’ll know exactly how to use your website so that it helps you tell awesome stories!
Get Started
Get Started Creating Your Amazing Magazine or News Website Today!
Ready to create a magazine or news website that you control? Want to tell amazing stories for people to read? Then let’s get started building your magazine website today!
You can pick any add ons you want for your website and choose a WordPress Website Care plan for your site. Then hit the checkout button to continue to the checkout phase. After you’ve completed the checkout form, I’ll be in touch with you as soon as possible to kick off creating the website.
You’re so close to creating a magazine website for yourself that will help you tell incredible stories!
Select a WordPress Website Care Plan
Each Membership Website Starter Kit comes with a WordPress Website Care plan for an annual or monthly charge. Let’s see which plan is going to be the best for your new website.
Basic Plan
Perfect for a basic WordPress website with a few pages. Maybe it’s just in the starting phase for a website you’re creating for your community. You just need managed updates and some technical help.
- WP Engine Hosting
- Managed Updates
- Accessibility Checks and Fixes
- Knowledge Base and Community Access
- Emergency Support
- Daily Automated Backups
Monthly: $50/month
Annual: $40/month paid at once
Secured Plan
Great for a small sized WordPress news website that’s just starting out. The added security audit and fixes will keep your website up and running and your members’ info safe.
- Everything From the Basic Plan
- Security Checks and Fixes
- 5 Hours of Changes/Month
Monthly: $90/month
Annual: $80/month paid at once
Optimized Plan
Perfect for a website that you’re looking to grow your magazine website. You’ll get SEO fixes, and I’ll work with you to help out your Local SEO. And I’ll get you going with Google’s great tools.
- Everything From the Basic and Secured Plans
- Weekly Website Reports
- User Experience Checks and Fixes
- Google Analytics, Search Console and Tag Manager Setup
- SEO and Local SEO Checks and Fixes
- Image Optimization
- 10 Hours of Changes/Month
Monthly: $150/month
Annual: $140/month paid at once
Ecommerce Plan
The best plan for any medium to large sized website that also sells products using WordPress. You’ll get the best hosting, technical help to keep your website up and running and so, so much more.
- Everything From the Basic, Secured and Optimized Plans
- Support for Larger Online Stores ( > 20 products)
- 15 Hours of Changes/Month
Monthly: $210/month
Annual: $200/month paid at once
Select a Plan
Small Business Websites Newsletters
Sign Up for the Small Business Websites Newsletter
Not quite ready for a new website yet but want to stay informed about websites and keep in touch? No problem! You can sign up for the Small Business Websites Newsletter today for free!
Each edition comes with a main topic where we dive deeper into something that deals with websites, whether it’s how to create a website, how to manage a website and everything in between. Also, I’ll highlight website-related news that’s happened in the last couple of weeks. And you might even receive product discounts.
It’s the perfect way to continue to learn about websites and how you can create and manage a website that helps you and the community that you build. Oh and don’t worry about the name. A lot of what’s covered will absolutely apply to your magazine or news website.
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The Essentials
What Every Website Comes With
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to provide?
You will be responsible for providing a purchased domain name, branding assets, content and the products you want for your store at launch. We can talk more about this at the initial meeting.
What if I don’t have a domain right now?
There’s no need to worry if you don’t already have your domain. I can help you purchase a domain (since you should always be in control of your domain name) and how to pick the right domain name for your business.
How long will this process take?
If everything goes according to plan, the website build should take no longer than two weeks. As long as you have all of your content (including products and their prices, images and description) at the start of the process, it should move really quickly.
What will happen after the website is launched?
Once the website is launched, I’ll provide a live training call to walk you through how to use the website. You’ll also have access to a knowledge base that you can access to see how to do various things.
As long as you choose a WordPress Website Starter Kit, I’ll take care of the technical side of your website, including WordPress core, plugin and theme updates, security issues, emergency fixes and more.