Old and New Pictures

The layout for Laurie R King’s official website has undergone a complete change due to her daughter’s web knowledge. Originally, the website was textually based, including various red hyperlinks and paragraphs of information. The reader’s eye had no real visual to focus on other than the large body of explanatory texts and textual hyperlinks within the main central column. If viewed in the wrong browser or in a small text size, the site could be daunting.

The site has now slimmed down to a sleek interface of picture headers, drawing the viewer’s attention first to the dark blue heading banner with its bright golden eye and Laurie R King’s name in a simple yet bold serif font. From there, the viewer’s sight is filled with four large and colorful book covers of Laurie’s newest writings with small one-sentence descriptions of each story; clicking on an individual book will take you to the book’s webpage. Giving these book covers the main space on the main webpage emphasizes the importance of King’s printed works; if it were not for the books, the site would not exist. Her picture in the right hand column links to her press and contact page while a montage of her book covers leads to a link showing where the viewer can buy her books.