Cathy is one of my favorite clients (partly because she’s so easy to work with and partly because she’s a dog lover). I created her original website back in 2006, right before her book The New Yorkers was released. Cathy’s latest book – The Three Weissmanns of Westport – will be released this Tuesday so she contacted me to give her site a corresponding face lift.
The major change on the back end was that I created the new look with Thesis, both for ease of development and also to see if it will improve her search engine results. The visible changes were not really extreme. We removed the splash page she’d had on the original site, eliminated the static home page and moved the blog to the home page instead. I widened the sidebar and added all her book covers to the sidebar above her blogroll and other links. I’m still tweaking things a bit on the back end, but the site is up before the book release, so I call that a win. 
Cathy’s blog and books are intelligent and humorous. Go visit cathleenschine.com and see for yourself.
