CoConi is an upcoming American singer whose new single “Get Your Light Up” was recently been featured on BBC Radio 2 and other stations.

My brief was to create a “gothic, but feminine” look on her website and social networking profiles, and to include social networking features on the website itself including:

• Automatic tweeting of new posts to CoConi’s Twitter and Facebook pages
• Social bookmarking features to allow visitors to coconimusic.com to send bookmarks by email and to bookmark any page onto their Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and Digg profiles.
• A mailing system allowing users to subscribe easily to the website to receive an automatic daily summary of new posts to CoConi’s site, and to also allow easy mass emailing to the entire subscriber list using a simple browser interface.

Other features include:

• Previews of music securely contained in a player (on pages featuring singles, EPs and albums).
• A “Concerts and Events” page listing upcoming shows in chronological order, with maps to the venue. The first 5 future events are also shown in the sidebar on every page).
• “Buy Now” buttons for all of CoConi’s CDs.
• A control panel for CoConi and her management team to add new articles and content using their web browser.
• Full SEO optimisation.
• Contact forms.
• Comment forms for visitors.

See below for screenshots or visit CoConi’s website, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages.

Screenshot of CoConiMusic.com with highlighted features

Screenshot of Photo Gallery

Easy subscription option for visitors

CoConi's Facebook fan page

This was an interesting but complex project which bought together a lot of different skills. I managed nevertheless to deliver the finished site on time and within budget.

I am delighted with the end result, as is CoConi, her management, and her PR consultants (incidentally whose clients  include Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake).

After extensive collaboration with Makepak’s managing director I came up with a very nice looking design which displayed their products with up to 20 photographs per item, and also featured and rss feed, and an email subscription service. An easy to use admin panel allows Makepak staff to quickly add, edit or remove machines from their website, and also lets them choose to email their entire subscriber list as soon as a new item is posted to their website.

Please see below for some screenshots or visit Makepak’s site

Screenshot of home page

Screenshot of item information page

Makepak have been so pleased with the performance of the site on Google and it has generated many leads and sales for them already. I am currently working together with Makepak on further additions to the site as part of their internet marketing strategy. 

The website was completely coded from scratch in CSS, XHTML1, ASP and SQL and is hosted by me. As usual, it was completed on time and within budget.