Rockett Creative were happily asked by Mr John Ayres to create a new website for Jstar. Like a true gent he gave us full reign on the whole thing and let us unleash the design juice. We did have a few conversations about raw veg, old records and the like but once a few images had been thrown over the garden fence at us, we were allowed to be our true creative selves. His one stipulation was to have an area he could post food recipes.
The website was hand built with a WordPress backend for Jstar to get in and use while on the road, And in the road he is…. always…. often uncontactable! We opted to use Google Web fonts on the site and a few CSS tricks to make the text titles etc shine like a graphic. Jstar wanted to have pretty much all people would need right on the front page so we have alsorts of embedded players and widgets plugged into it. And there is soon to be an On The Road video blog page..
John wanted to finally start geting a mailing list of his thousands of fans out there, he already had 2,300 likes on his Facebook page alone. So we set to task setting up his mailing list database using Mailchimp with a newsletter template designed and ready to fire when he finshes his current tour, which is his 4th of New Zeland. He is quite prolific with his gigs and has produced over 50 fine quality official remixes for artists such as Madness, DJ Vadim, The Black seeds, Ari Up, Mark Ronson and others…
He wanted to extend the branding we have created on the website to social networks like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter. And overall he has expressed extreme satisfaction with the project and we will be continuing the marketing of Jstar from here on in.
Take a look and dont forget to sample some of the musical delights… there are even a few free downloads on soundcloud.
