Sample Sites
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| • | Coachhouse Publications | small publisher's online bookshop, including a 'look inside the book' feature. |
| • | enables authors to advertise their availability for interviews, talks, workshops and commissions. |
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| • | David Bedford | children's author (design uses a background picture) |
| • | A Special Child in the Family |
a new use for an out-of-print book with all the text online for anyone to read. |
| • | Julie Sykes | children's author |
| • | Julia Donaldson | best-selling author of The Gruffalo (home page has ticker tape message) |
| • | Gloria May | hypnotherapist |
| • | Brian Lux | writes for adults and children (design incorporates the main character from his book) |
| • | Llandudno Writers | writers group site |
| • | Valerie Wilding |
children's author |
| • | Pippa Goodhart | children's author |
| • | GSA Training | training in editorial and publishing
skills |
| • | Donna Vann | children's author (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Brian St Pierre | food writer's site about eating out in London. (almost all content is diy, includes a news feed) |
| • | Teresa O'Driscoll | author, journalist and self-development facilitator (green and white) |
| • | Sandra Glover | children's author (blue and white) |
| • | Rosemary Wilkie | children's author (includes sound clip from audiobook) |
| • | author of books for older children (striking combination of grey and red) |
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| • | Square Mile Languages | Translation service (Dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Keith McCarthy | author who uses his background in pathology
in his crime novels (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Eleanor Updale | Blue Peter Award winning author (blue on white) |
| • | Jenny
Alexander |
children's author (uses her own artwork as a border on the top and bottom) |
| • | Catrin Collier | novelist. (She designed her site herself and then handed it over to us to create.) |
| • | Mary Hoffman | children's author |
| • | Mike Jubb | creative writing and poetry for children (primary colours give a child-friendly feel) |
| • | Chez Jessop | about a holiday home for rent in France (colours chosen to give a Mediterrean feel) |
| • | Louis Rodrigues | translator |
| • | Maydene | site about field spaniels (orange and brown colour scheme) |
| • | Eggbert | series of children's books (includes pdf activity sheets) |
| • | Alison Prince | author of books for adults and children
and the Trumpton stories |
| • | Zoe Fairbairns | author of fiction and non-fiction (green on cream) |
| • | Alan Wilkinson | company histories, travel
writing and ghostwriting |
| • | RG Gregory | celebration of a poet's
life and work (one of those rare occasions when a frames site was the best choice) |
| • | Leo Aylen | poet, author, actor, director, broadcaster
and screenwriter. (iIncludes several DIY sections) |
| • | Men Who Danced | site for retired male dancers (includes an online poll) |
| • | Diana Kimpton | children's author (the cartoon picture on the homepage is echoed in the colour scheme and links) |
| • | June Oldham | author of books for teenagers
and adults (blue on white) |
| • | Ulli Springett | symbol therapy and wish
therapy (green on cream) |
| • | Helen Doe | maritime historian (colour and illustration give a nautical feel) |
| • | Tamarind | publisher of multicultural
children's books |
| • | Alix Henley | handbooks for health professionals (brown on cream) |
| • | Keith Sagar | literary critic and poet (includes downloadable texts) |
| • | Anne Mustoe | a grandmother cycling around the
world |
| • | Paul Dowswell | children's information books (green and cream) |
| • | Aude Education | advice, training and support to schools
and education authorities (green and cream) |
| • | Kathryn Spink | author and translator |
| • | Nostradamus 500 | books on Nostradamus (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Theodor Storm | celebrates the life and
works of the 19th century German literary giant (good example of a research resource site) |
| • | Ann Bryant | music specialist and children's author (red on white with child-friendly interactivity) |
| • | Alan Gibbons | award winning children's author (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Penelope Bennett | writer, potter and window box gardener |
| • | Keith Gray | teenage novels (a dark, dramatic site) |
| • | David O'Regan | international auditing books (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Maureen Lee | novels set in wartime Liverpool (reflects the Liverpool theme of the books) |
| • | Jane Hatton | Cornish chronicles and other novels |
| • | Julia Marriner | children's illustrator (uses speech bubbles for the navigation) |
| • | Joanna Hines | novelist (dark blue on white) |
| • | Fay Sampson | teenage fiction (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Andrew Crofts | ghostwriter (brown on cream) |
| • | Paul Bennett | crime thriller author (red on white with a fingerprint logo) |
| • | Stephanie Baudet | children's author (dark blue on light blue) |
| • | Nicola Morgan | children's author |
| • | Caods | amateur theatre site (includes random photo, auto-play sound clip and a sign-up list) |
| • | Michelene Wandor | playwright, author, musician (includes background sound on home page and sample music clip on music page) |
Dummy Standard Sites
To demonstrate the standard design and explain more about how it works,
we've created a sample site in each of the available colour schemes.
| Option 1 - graphic buttons | ||
| • | Green on cream | |
| • | Green on white | |
| • | Dark blue on light blue | |
| • | Dark blue on white | |
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| Option 2 - text buttons | ||
| • | Green on Cream | |
| • | Green on white | |
| • | Dark blue on light blue with blue bar | |
| • | Dark blue on light blue | |
| • | Dark blue on white | |
| • | Red on white | |
| • | Red on white with black bar | |
| • | Red on white with grey bar | |