Nutshell Books is a publishing company based in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, that produces non-fiction guides – in hardcover, paperback and e-book – to promote human-animal relationships built on kindness and mutual understanding.
To showcase their range and to support sales, they wanted a website that reflected the look and feel of the company’s existing brand, that would feature early in Google’s search engine, load quickly, and be easy to navigate.
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The Nutshell Books website was a pleasure to work on, and that wasn’t just because of the company’s intrinsic feel-good factor, or even because their products are jam-packed with gorgeous, heart-kindling images of fluffy puppies. The whole project seemed to have its own momentum, and it just flowed from start to finish.
From the design angle, the books already had their own strong branding, with sunshine-themed backgrounds and a striking colour palette of blacks and yellows, so that gave us a clear starting point.
On the development side, the client envisaged a rotating book carousel on the homepage; they wanted filters to select books by specific criteria; they wanted a ‘look-inside’ pop-up for each book; and they needed ‘links to purchase’ on every product. We produced these using a combination of HTML, CSS and Javascript, custom-building the individual elements for maximin speed.
Working with the Gecko team was an absolute pleasure. Our website is exactly what I was hoping for, and just four weeks from launching, nearly all the books are in the first 15 results on Google search. I couldn’t be happier!
Carolyn, Nutshell Books
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