New client website goes live: JoeAbercrombie.com

Filed by: Darren on April 14, 2007 at 9:54
Filed In: Books, Marketing, Work

Another initial page of content went live as of yesterday; it's been a good couple of weeks on the work-front. This one is for a brand new client, and someone I'm particularly thrilled to be building a website for, given that I really, really enjoyed his first book or two.

Currently www.joeabercrombie.com is a holding page containing some information about the first two books in his The First Law series: The Blade Itself and Before They Are Hanged, as well as a mailing list sign-up form and an email contact address. Joe and I will be working on a much more comprehensive site later in the year; the target is June / July (ish), work-load (Joe's) permitting.

Again, it's a simple design, using the parchment background to reflect the cover-theme of The Blade Itself. The only thing I might do differently, thinking about it, is improve the header, try to put it into a gothic-serif font to try to match the book's lettering. That would look better, but give Google less relevancy-matching to get its teeth into, but then the primary domain should grab Google's attention quite nicely. I'll think I'll see how it goes for now.

And as always, any comments or feedback - or thoughts as to what sort of content you'd like to see on the finished site - would be gratefully received!

Filed on: April 14, 2007
Filed under: Books, Marketing, Work
Tagged with: client-websites | Joe-Abercrombie | The-First-Law | website-launch |