Mick Elliott • Children’s Author
Squarespace Website Refresh

Industry: Publishing/Author

Mick Elliott is a successful children's author of both fiction books and picture books and when he asked me for help to refresh his site, I couldn't have been more excited! I'm lucky enough to have known Mick in my previous life in publishing so I knew his fiction books well, and I also know how much of a talent and powerhouse this man is, I was excited to help build a colourful, fun and dynamic website to help match.

The first important thing was to help show just how many books Mick has written and to have direct links to all of these, which we covered with adding them in a dropdown in a navbar and also as a carousel on the homepage that people can move through. We also updated his books page so that users can easily navigate to either picture books or fiction. With his series' and picture books I also wanted to make it easy for a user to navigate to another book that was connected, so added related books at the bottom of each page.

Mick also has a HUGE array of podcasts, videos and reviews so it was important to make sure these were up on the relevant pages. As well as an SEO update with page restructures, adding his meta and title descriptions and making sure images were at a smaller size to help pages load quicker.

Most importantly, was making sure people knew how to work with him for school visits and bookshop visits so a clear CTA with a button at the top of all pages was added.

Mick is FUN! And he is a children's author so using Mick's drawings, I created a few gifs throughout the site, including the footer. I had SO most fun with this build! I love my job.

Mick Elliott's website on a laptop, tablet and mobile device
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