Top 4 Pitfalls To Avoid When Creating Interactive eBooks

With digital publishing gaining momentum with each passing day, various companies are making use of interactive ebooks to entertain and educate their audiences. Infused with interactive multimedia elements, the modern-day ebooks are all set to revolutionize the online digital publishing game by offering out-of-the-box innovative elements to both content creators and content consumers.

Now, let us check out the top 4 pitfalls that business owners need to avoid in order to make the most of interactive ebooks -

#Pro Tip 1: Get Rid Of PDF Format

While writing content for books, magazines or brochures on the digital platform, there are a lot of constraints of PDF which one has to face. Therefore, the very first thing to do while developing an interactive ebook is to let go of PDF. Instead, think about how you can tell your story with the help of images, videos, audio, and animations. Moreover, as the structure of PDF doesn’t translate well to the web, EPUB is considered as the best format for ebooks.

#Pro Tip 2: Don’t Make A Verbose Copy

Readers have a short attention span. Which is why they prefer reading a concise text instead of a lengthy one. Yet, if the ebook is interactive and conveys a rich and valuable story with the help of images, videos, GIFs, animations etc., then it would certainly pique the interest of the viewers. In fact, according to creative interactive ebooks experts, readers wouldn’t even mind reading an extensive ebook as they are getting layers and layers of information without the usage of thousands of words.

#Pro Tip 3: Brainstorm Visual Aspect First

Unlike a static ebook, the creation process of an interactive ebook should be entirely different as graphics and design are elemental to the story you want to convey. In other words, before the ebook is written, it is necessary to finalize the visual concept of the topic. You can give an outline of your written content to your online digital publishing creative team so that your team can research visuals and wire-frame a design. Together, you can pair visuals, audio and the copy in such a way that it most effectively tells the story.

#Pro Tip 4: Never Skip A Call-To-Action

Do not leave your audiences wondering at the end of the text as to what they are supposed to be doing. You need to lead them in the right direction by providing a clear ‘Call-to-action’ button. The placement of the CTA depends entirely upon you. You can use a persistent CTA as a part of the footer/header element, pop-up CTAs which appear after a certain amount spent on the piece of content or CTAs which appear in their own sections.

The process of creating interactive ebooks does include various rules that static ebooks follow, but not all of them. Therefore, in order to embrace the creative freedom in a suitable manner, an expert ebook creator needs to be hired.

SunTec Digital offers unmatched digital publishing support for creating an interactive ebook. Are you in lookout of an expert ebook creator? Need a creative nerd to work on your project? Drop a mail at info@suntecdigital.com to get started soon.

How CMS Development Service providers help you have complete control over your Website

Business owners often come across the term CMS (Content Management System), while creating a website for their business, event or portfolio. This is because a CMS is an important part of website creation.

CMS is a computer application (or a set of similar programs) which can be used to create or manage digital content. This is performed by adding, editing or deleting the content which is published on a website.

Let us check out the major advantages of a CMS -

- SEO-friendly

The greatest advantage of CMSs is that they are SEO-friendly. They can very easily incorporate custom page titles as well as metadata and adjustable URLs during web application development. If you want further tips on how to optimize your content, then there are helper plugins available.

- Quick updating

While using CMS, sites can be updated in a quick and effortless manner. And various components like menus, headers, footers, and sidebars can be quickly updated even when using the administrative interface.

- Simplified Content editing

Content editing is entirely separate from the design and functionality of the site during web application development. Therefore, users which aren’t trained can easily add, format and edit their content on the website without having to gain expertise in designing and coding.

- Restricted Access Permissions

Based on various roles like an author, editor, contributor, administrator etc., each and every user can have selective access permissions based on their roles. The website owner can choose to allow some users to add as well as edit their own content

Additionally, a professional CMS development service provider would encompass all the following areas -

1. CMS custom web design templates

2. Migrating existing site to CMS

3. CMS web design and development

4. Maintaining CMS Portals development

5. Customizing existing CMS modules, plug-ins and components.

6. Integration of CMS of existing systems into CMS-developed websites

7. Custom CMS development of various components for your site.

It is worth adding that whenever you plan to opt for CMS development services, you should make sure to hire the most professionally run service provider as a highly skilled team makes use of anti-virus tools &firewall, deploys automatic hack cleaners and also takes the backups of your website at equal intervals.

SunTec India provides comprehensive CMS support so that business owners can have access to a CMS capable of creating & editing content and which also allows them to administer users and assign different permissions to each. If you are interested in getting a CMS developed from experts, then drop a mail at info@suntecindia.com to get started.