Andrew Mackie • Author, Film Distributor and Producer
Squarespace Website Build

Industry: Publishing/Author

Andrew Mackie is a mega talent. He's an established Australian author, film distributor and film producer. His latest book posed a puzzle for this build as it has one name in Australia and New Zealand, The Tour, and a different name in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, The Journey After the Crown.

I approached this build with that in mind and made sure that it was clear from the first moment you step on the website that the book has two different titles but ensuring both covers are featured as one book that switches, and the title of the books type out, erase and type out the other title. This is also made clear by having one book page with scrolls to Australia and New Zealand and The rest of the world so users can navigate.

Andrew also wanted to feature his incredible list of films so I engineered a way of using the blogs feature so that they would function to show up in categories which users could then soft scroll to from the top clicking on each category, which a jump back to top button so the user then didn’t have to scroll all the way back up.

SEO is a work in progress as the site moves up the search rank against a well-known AFL player with the same name, slowly but surely.

I had so much fun on this build, lots of juicy problem solving and a wonderful client to work with.