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Author Website · Full Custom Build
The Universe of Gigi
Dark romance & gothic fairytales
Gigi Joseph needed a home as bold as her worlds. Her site started as a boxed template with a hard-to-read layout and links that fought her brand. I rebuilt it into a fully custom WordPress experience with a misty-forest hero, brand typography, a bonus vault, a styled shop, and a contact form that delivers straight to her inbox.
Featured Upgrade
An Immersive Intro Audio
In a later update, I added a custom intro-audio player to her homepage, so readers are welcomed into her world by sound the moment they arrive. A small, atmospheric touch that makes the whole experience feel alive.
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The problem
The original site relied on a rigid template. Body text was hard to read against busy art, navigation didn't match her voice, and the contact form wasn't reliably reaching her. For a dark-romance author whose whole draw is atmosphere, the packaging was working against the writing.
What I built
- Custom child theme, fully brand-matched
- Misty-forest hero with layered typography
- Custom intro-audio welcome
- Brand fonts wired in site-wide
- Bonus-scene vault for subscribers
- Styled shop and books pages
The result
A site that reads like one of her worlds instead of a template, easy to navigate, easy to read, and easy for readers to reach her through. Delivered end to end as a flat-fee project, from design through deployment on her own hosting.
