New client website re-vamp: AdamRoberts.com

Filed by: Darren Turpin on May 26, 2007 at 7:24
Filed under: Freelance Work

Adam Roberts is one of the brightest stars in the UK science fiction firmament. His novels, novellas and short stories are always ideas-driven, usually highly challenging and often misunderstood, but you can rely on them being packed to the rafters with intelligent writing: literary allusion, metaphorical and metaphysical extrapolation, and some truly stunning visions of alternate worlds, alternate futures, alternate realities.

Adam has been a client of mine for going on six years now and his website has been through three different incarnations in that time. The third version of www.adamroberts.com went live yesterday, and I'm sure all will agree (if memory serves) that it's a big improvement on the first two:

This time out it's a Wordpress site, and I've been exploring the options that WP offers to use it as a site-wide content management system rather than just as a single blog page. Hence the bibliography section is self-contained within the WP setup, which means that if Adam wants to add to them, or tinker with them, he can do so to his heart's content, without waiting for me to have a few minutes free in my schedule to make the changes for him.

He can also drive his own news section as a full blog now, complete with RSS-feed for all you feed-grazers out there who don't even bother to visit the lovely websites that some of us have spent so many hours slaving over... (James, I'm looking at you...)

Adam also runs three other blogs (Europrogocontestovision, punkadiddle and Rambling Ad Rumpo) and I'm working on persuading him to bring those three within the main blog as well - there's some great content on them, and having it all in one place would really strengthen the main site. Between you and me I reckon that once he's seen just how far superior Wordpress is to clunky old blogspot he'll be looking to at least move those over to WP sub-domains of their own, but I think that bringing them within the main site on a by-Category basis would work even better...