Katie and Jordan have a makeover!

I'm half way through my internship and since day one I have been involved in managing the content for Katie Price and Jordan's new websites. So for me, (having only been here a few weeks) it was really rewarding and satisfying to see her websites finally up and running with their new and improved make overs.

Both katieprice.co.uk and jordanfanclub.co.uk were officially launched last Wednesday after months of love and care went into Katie's new website refurbishment.

In terms of the technical process I can't divulge too much information… only because I don't have any:) I was working predominantly on the content, including her blogs, photos, and general information on the site. Due to a number of things changing in Katie's life over the last year in particular, there was a lot of content which needed some tweaking.

The styles of the websites have been changed quite dramatically. For Katieprice.co.uk it has been transformed from a reasonably simple but stylish and feminine layout (which complemented Katie's new pictures at the time) to a very colourful and playful style with a cartoon image of Katie herself. It is a lot more fun and has more things to play with visually. It has a new feature where Katie's fans can leave comments and a brand new chat room for members to talk direct to Katie. In addition to that katie's twitter feeds now appear on her website so it allows more interaction between Katie and her fans.

I really enjoyed editing the content and adding bits here and there; not only did it give me a much better idea of how Message's SweetCMS (content management system) works but I was able to get involved with the content strategy itself. It was nice to see the end result after many days of editing blog posts, adding and removing various pages and resizing and uploading images.

One Katie, two websites…

I met Danny, Katie's brother who also deals with her websites and we chatted about the content, discussing what should stay and what should go. I felt this was an important part of my role within the website process as I was able to sit down with a client and go over a list of amendments I had to make and it was super rewarding to be able to say "Yup, no problem!"

Jordan has been transformed into a 1950's pin up girl for her new image. The background is styled like a photo shoot set; it's sexy, classic and exactly what her new site needed to give it a fresh new feel. It has the same added features as Katieprice.co.uk such as the live chat, twitter feed and comments option for members. The layout and design of Jordan's new website really complements her newly refined image which reflects a classic yet sexy, professional look.

The websites have retained all the best assets whilst being playful, stylish and super user friendly (which is obviously the most important part of a website process).

I feel very confident working with SweetCMS and have a much clearer understanding of the website production process.

What a great project to work on as an introduction to such a system. Thanks Katie! :-)