Susan Orlean dot com launches

A site I’ve been working on for the past few months (on and off) has finally gone live. susanorlean.com is the online home of Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker, author, and Meryl Streep impersonator (or is that the other way round?). In addition to the design, I also exercised my Perl muscles in building a little widget to let Susan upload her articles without going through me all the time.

This was a great site to work on because it was fun to do, the client was really enthusiastic about it, and it introduced me to Susan’s writing (The Orchid Thief is recommended). After working on dozens of corporate Web sites with buzzword-compliant copy, it was a delight to read through Susan’s articles in the process of building the site.

I’d love to hear any comments, questions, or constructive criticism you might have.