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A simple home for a book and its author
Krysteen Dvoracek is an author. She needed a website that introduces her, and her book, Love & Parrots, without any unnecessary complexity.
Not every website needs to be big. This one needed to be warm and clear.
Industry: Author and writer
Work: Website design and development
/ krysteendvoracek.com
The starting point: a debut book, and a deadline.
Krysteen was preparing to launch her first book, Love & Parrots. She needed a website that introduced her and the book properly, and one she could keep updating herself afterwards.
An author launching a book without a website has a specific problem: every interview, post and conversation ends with "where can people find you?", and social profiles are a poor answer. Posts expire. A website is the one link that keeps working, for readers, book clubs and media alike.
The trap in the other direction is just as real. Authors get sold sprawling sites with pages nobody needs, that cost too much and never get maintained. Krysteen needed neither extreme.
Simplicity was the whole strategy here, done properly rather than skipped.
The decisions that mattered
Colours and messaging,
found together
A warm, personal tone
We worked with Krysteen to find the right colours and messaging for her, then built a genuine outdoor portrait into a warm, approachable hero.
A clean,
uncluttered structure
Home and the book, nothing else needed
Two-item navigation, Home and the book, keeps the site focused entirely on Krysteen and Love & Parrots, with no filler pages diluting the message. Everything a reader needs, nothing they'd skip.
Easy for her
to keep updating
Built for her, not just for launch
The site was built so Krysteen could update it herself afterwards, without needing to come back to us for every small change.
What shipped: small on purpose, complete anyway.
The site Creative Baguette built introduces Krysteen as an author, in her own warm register, with a genuine outdoor portrait rather than a stiff studio headshot. The Love & Parrots page presents the book properly and sends readers straight to where they can buy it.
Small didn't mean bare. There's a book club discussion guide readers can download, a newsletter signup so Krysteen keeps her own audience rather than renting one from social media, and room for her other writing. When her stories appeared in a second collection, the site had a place for it.
Everything serves the same job: someone hears about the book, lands here, and knows within seconds who Krysteen is.
The result: a website she loves.
The site was built and live in under two weeks. Krysteen was thrilled with the turnaround, and now uses the site as her calling card, sending people there whenever she talks about her book. She says she truly sees herself in it.
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Let’s sort your websiteQuestions this project usually raises
How fast can a small website be built?
This one went from start to live in under two weeks.
When the scope is clear and one person owns the project end to end, a small site does not need to take months.
Can I update the site myself afterwards?
Yes, if that's what you want.
Krysteen's site was built so she could keep updating it herself without coming back to us for every small change. Other clients prefer to send us a message and have changes handled. Both work.
Is a small, simple website worth doing properly?
Often more than a big one.
A focused site with two or three pages, done well, beats a sprawling one nobody finishes. Landing pages at Creative Baguette start around $700, so simple does not have to mean flimsy.
