Case study 01 of 10 Client build
The portfolio a violinist updates without me
An elegant portfolio that lets a concert violinist's work speak for itself.
Fiona, a concert violinist, needed a refined home for her performances and media, and an easy way for venues to reach her.
- Pages
- Four, privacy included
- Lists she keeps
- Performances and press
- Order
- Set by dragging, not by date
- Editing
- Every word, from her own login
What Fiona asked for
Fiona Qiu is a concert violinist in Sydney. A performer's site dates in small, constant ways: a concert passes, a photograph gets replaced. If every change has to come through me, it does not happen, and a portfolio nobody updates reads worse than none. So most of the build went into her not needing me.
Two things built so she never has to ask me
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Every word on the page is hers to change
The words live in the site, not in my code, so she edits them from her own login. Her biography is one text box that splits into paragraphs wherever she leaves a blank line, because that is how she writes.
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The performance list is ordered by dragging, and it feeds search directly
Performances and press are two lists, shown in the order she drags them into. Each concert also hands search engines its details, so it can appear in results on its own. Where a typed date is ambiguous I leave that concert out of the search data rather than guess, because one bad date makes search engines ignore the whole entry.
Ordered by dragging, not by date. Each concert also hands search engines its own details.
What a visitor finds
- A hero that leads on the room rather than her face, on purpose.
- A privacy policy she rewrites in a single box, with sections that renumber themselves.
- An enquiry form that drops spam: a hidden field only a bot fills in, and anything sent within three seconds of the page loading.
What this one started
Sleepless Violin came first, and Haven Designs was built around it. Two rules started here and stayed: the words belong to the owner, and what a site tells search engines comes from what a visitor can see. A privacy-page fix from this build went straight into a later client site.
I also have access to an easy editing page for the website, so I can easily update things like performance dates, photos, wording and other details whenever I need to.
Two more, either side of this one.
Want one of these for your own business?
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