Client website re-vamp: JaneJohnsonBooks.com
Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 14:56
Jane Johnson is an author and editor who has previously published books under the pseudonyms Gabriel King and Jude Fisher, as well as a series of children's fantasy adventures under her own name.
With her new novel, Crossed Bones (US title: The Tenth Gift) she's making a bit of a departure, content-wise; moving away from epic fantasy into the historical mystery / romance sub-genre, with a tale of sixteeth century pirates, a Cornish seamstress captured and sold into slavery in the kasbahs of Morocco, and the modern-day woman who discovers the captive's secret journal and becomes drawn into her story.
Jane wanted to re-design her main website to reflect some of the atmosphere of the book (and the two she plans to write next) and so wanted something visually arresting that highlighted the rich scenery and imagery of Morocco. Knowing full-well that this was likely to be a tall order for someone with my admittedly limited graphic design skills, I turned to a fellow freelancer - Penn Smith of Idesign Creative in Leeds - to come up with the visual elements. I then slotted them into a solid, html & css-based site build, with a Blogger-based news page to allow Jane to run her own updates when required, and provide automatic RSS-feed generation.
Here's the end result:
Do click through and have a look at the rest of the site; the visual theme continues throughout, but the graphic elements vary with the major site sections. And there's a Flickr-based gallery of Jane's own photos of Morocco within the 'Inspiration' section, for extra visual richness.
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