Liliana Antonik Shawky — Author Website & Book Storefront
An elegant bilingual author website and direct book storefront designed to establish Liliana Antonik Shawky's digital presence, showcase her publications, share editorial content, and sell books directly to readers.
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Case study
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The challenge
The main challenge was combining an emotional, editorial author experience with a practical e-commerce flow without making the website feel like a traditional online store. The platform also needed to work for more than the author's first book, support multiple languages, present long-form editorial content, maintain a strong personal brand, and provide a clear path from discovering the author to purchasing a book.
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The approach
I designed the website around two connected experiences: storytelling and commerce. The public experience uses an editorial structure with strong typography, author imagery, book storytelling, journal content, and carefully placed calls to action. Books are structured as reusable content entities rather than hardcoded sections, allowing future publications to be added without redesigning the website. Each book can have its own presentation, editions, pricing, media, description, and purchasing experience. The ordering flow was kept intentionally simple, allowing readers to select an edition and quantity before proceeding through a secure checkout process. The content architecture also supports bilingual pages, journal articles, newsletters, legal pages, FAQs, and future author events. SEO, semantic page structure, accessibility, responsive behavior, and content discoverability were considered throughout the implementation so the website can serve both readers and search engines effectively.
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The outcome
Delivered a complete digital presence that combines author branding, editorial storytelling, book discovery, and direct sales in one cohesive platform. The website gives the author full ownership of her relationship with readers while providing a scalable foundation for future books, journal content, newsletters, events, and new releases.
Liliana Antonik Shawky is an elegant author and personal-brand website created to establish the official online presence of Polish writer and storyteller Liliana Antonik Shawky.
The platform introduces the author, showcases her published work, and provides a direct purchasing experience for her debut novel, Dom nad Nilem.
The website combines editorial storytelling with e-commerce functionality, allowing readers to discover the story behind the book, explore detailed book information, choose between standard and signed editions, and purchase directly from the author.
The platform was designed to support future growth beyond a single book. Its structure accommodates additional publications, journal articles, author updates, events, newsletters, and new releases without requiring a redesign.
The experience is built around a refined editorial visual identity that reflects the themes of literature, family, culture, travel, and storytelling while maintaining a clear conversion path toward book purchases.
Key features include:
• Author profile and personal branding
• Dedicated book catalog and detail pages
• Direct book ordering
• Standard and signed book editions
• Quantity and edition selection
• Secure online checkout flow
• English and Polish content support
• Journal and author updates
• Newsletter subscriptions
• Book trailers and media content
• Reader-focused FAQ and information pages
• SEO-optimized content structure
• Responsive design across devices
• Architecture ready for future books and releases
- HTML
- Tailwind CSS
- Alpine.js
- JavaScript
- Responsive Design
- SEO
- AEO
- Structured Data
- Payment Gateway Integration
- Laravel
- PHP
- Blade
- MySQL