You nailed it, @fiiva. All those suggestions are actually on my roadmap. 😊 It‘s just I lack advanced dev skills, and I‘m waiting on outside dev help.

I would even go further to make the font size dynamic depending on the quote lengths. This current font size is picked as average.

As for the images… it‘s just something to put a cherry on top. I might update them in future, to pick something more relevant, or a different style as you suggest. For now, I focus on building content and making it SEO friendly because finding 1000+ consistent illustrations is too time-consuming at this stage. But I plan to pay more attention in the future; perhaps even help illustrators get featured somehow.

Oh, that would be lovely.

I assume most of the authors would not be specifically writing on philosophical and spiritual topics. That makes me think that I probably need to adjust the brand positioning for Zenpen to a more general, less zen-like niche. That way, I can open up the brand to all types of indie authors, as long as the quotes are deep and meaningful.

If this is a success, and I get lots of visits to the website, it should be valuable for authors to get exposure, and valuable for me, if I get royalties from the book sales because the links from the quotes point out to the source that can be purchased.

For now it‘s just me dumping in quotes that I‘ve gathered on my computer. If the site takes traction as it is, I‘m planning to help indie writers feature quotes from their books, and a link back to their books, so people can purchase them. I also have more ideas, but I‘ll leave them for further into the future.

Great strategy. That‘s more-or-less how I began. Now, it‘s time to narrow my marketing efforts to what works best. As for social media, at least I reserved the social handles precisely like I wanted, with the same consistent name, so in case I sell Zenpen, the owner will have every social channel under one name.

Thanks @diliuskh. The sleepless nights were worth it. 😊

Oh, forgot to say, thanks for the nice words. 😊

If you just want to train your eye to spot good design, I‘d say just be exposed to good design, whether listing various showcase sites, going to café that have a modern, well-thought interior, visiting events that are design-related, and the like.

But if you want to understand what makes a good design… well, nowadays, there are even too many resources, and it‘s easy to get overwhelmed. What specifically would you like to learn? For example, in my case, I wanted to make Zenpen a reality, so I picked Webflow for that, which mean I needed to learn more about Webflow‘s way of making websites.

The more specific you are, the more I could help. Generally, I believe most people find video formats easier to consume when it comes to learning things. So, any design channel on Youtube should be helpful.

I picked this exact image size to balance with the size of the font. Also, if the image is too big, it will push down the text, which would be especially visible for longer quotes. And then, I also want to ensure it doesn‘t look oversized on mobile. Performance-wise, I wanted to ensure each image doesn‘t weight more than 20kb, to ensure ultra-fast load because people paginate through many quotes at a session (according to my site analytics.)

That exact quote in action:
zenpen.club/quote/future-generations-for-humane-technology

Sorry, my auto-correct beat me. 🫣

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