John Biggins - Web Developer

Name: John Biggins
Address: London, England, UK
Telephone: +1 407-233-3331

UK-based website designs especially for for authors. Clients include Bernardine Evaristo, Louise Doughty, John Lahr, Jill Dawson.

Overview

Anyone author who’s serious about connecting with their audience needs an eye-catching and unique web presence. We specialise in producing modern websites for the creative community, with 20 years’ experience in developing bespoke, affordable designs, both for established and newly published authors. Redesigns and new sites welcome. We’ll guide you through the whole process, including selling your books online. Our sites work on all screen sizes and mobile devices, are optimised for and submitted to search engines, come with simple updating instructions, are fully GDPR-compliant and include a free security certificate.

‘It looks absolutely great. So much better than my old site.’ – Bernardine Evaristo

‘As a strategic tool in supporting and broadcasting my work, Aerta has been invaluable and well-worth the money. I would never use anyone else.’ – John Lahr ‘

'Aerta are brilliant. John’s ability to translate my half-baked, technophobe’s requests into beautiful web design is really impressive. The ‘after-care’ is terrific too.’ – Jill Dawson

Services

Website

Works with

WordPress

Certifications

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Work experience

Director

Self-employed

January, 1999 – Present (over 22 years)

Projects

Beverley Naidoo - author website

South African writer Beverley Naidoo came to us for a complete re-vamp of her large website – and was very pleased with the results!

Beverley's recommendation: 'It has been a pleasure working with John and he has done a fabulous job of refreshing and developing my website. I had delayed the task, thinking it was much too mountainous. Now that I’m happily on the other side, I fully recommend John as a steady, careful guide!'

Ray Connolly website - website design

Author, journalist, playwright and screenwriter Ray Connolly’s body of work stretches back to the 1960s. His large site was out of date and difficult to update – so we redesigned it in WordPress, and the result is an elegant, easy-to-navigate website which Ray updates himself.

John Harvey – novelist, poet and publisher - website design

John Harvey's recommendation: 'Having set it up originally, John has recently given my website a sparkling new look, with easy-to-find information arranged in a number of clearly distinct categories that even an old geezer like me can find his way around with ease. It was important to me that, not being amongst the most computer literate of people, I was able to communicate with someone like John who was both patient when necessary and speedy to respond.'

Bernardine Evaristo website - website design

2019 Booker prizewinner Bernardine Evaristo’s previous site was a very basic WordPress arrangement, not befitting her elevated status in the publishing world. She approached Aerta for a complete redesign. The result is a comprehensive and elegant catalogue of Bernardine’s work over the decades.

We also arranged transfer of Bernardine’s hosting and domain name, and issued straightforward editing instructions when the new site was complete.

And Bernardine’s verdict: ‘John was fantastic to work with on developing my lovely new website. I’m very pleased with the result and wholeheartedly recommend his services.’