New client, new(-ish) website: RichardKMorgan.com

Filed by: Darren Turpin on July 17, 2007 at 11:53
Filed under: Freelance Work

I've recently taken on the management of Richard (K) Morgan's website, which I'm very pleased indeed to be involved with, seeing as I'm a bit of a fan and all...

I was going to start by just transferring the old site onto a new server, but... well, I couldn't resist having a bit of a tinker (as you do), so we've actually ended up with an interim revamp. It's still fairly close to the look of the original site, but I've broken the pages out of the frameset to improve Google spider access, added a bit more info about Richard's books to the homepage and so forth.

There will be a fully re-designed site going live later in the year, with a design that reflects the re-design work that publisher Gollancz have unveiled for the full range of paperback editions of Richard's books, and plenty more bibliographical information etc. Watch this space. And in the meantime, here's a quick shot of the interim site:

Interim version of www.richardkmorgan.com

Filed on: July 17, 2007
Filed under: Freelance Work
Tagged With: client-websites | Richard-Morgan

Comments

4 Responses to 'New client, new(-ish) website: RichardKMorgan.com'

John on July 17th, 2007 4:03 pm

Some observations:

1. I love the look of black /dark backgrounds, but black text on white background is so much easier on the eyes.
2. The "Access" label is not very clear to me. "Home" is generally universally understood.
3. The "Biog" label looks very close like "Blog". Perhaps "Biography" or the shorter "Bio"?
4. I think "Bibliograpy" better conveys the contents of the "output" page.

My unsolicited 2 pennies... :)
Ariel on July 17th, 2007 4:43 pm

Hi John -

All very good points indeed, and all things I've already got on the 'to-do' list for the full new version ;) Especially the white text / black b'ground issue, which is right up there at #1...

And the button-labels were the ones from the old site again... so yeah, we might move closer to a more conventional naming-scheme for the new site, but at the end of the day it depends on how Richard wants to present it.

Definite case of 'Watch this space...' :)
Ed on July 17th, 2007 9:35 pm

The old site certainly needed a revamp, looking forward to the new finished product.
Joe on July 19th, 2007 10:13 pm

Glad you're on the case with this one bud, Richard's site has really been needing a revamp for a while.