The author site of Forrest Brazeal, built to promote his debut novel Paradox Inc. (Ballantine Books, Jan 27 2027).
A minimal, hand-built static site (plain HTML + CSS, no build step). Auto-deploys to
Netlify on every push to main.
index.html # the whole site — one page, anchor-linked sections
styles.css # all styling (eggshell theme, Montserrat + Lato, 3D book render)
images/ # book cover + headshot
netlify.toml # publish config + headers (no build command)
Everything lives in index.html and styles.css. Edit, commit, push — Netlify does the rest.
- Add a News update: copy one
<article class="news-item">block in the#newssection, edit the date/title/text, and put it at the top (newest first). - Swap the headshot: replace
images/forrest-headshot.jpg(used in About). - Contact form: uses Netlify Forms. Submissions appear in the Netlify dashboard under Forms; enable email notifications there.
To preview locally, run any static server, e.g.:
python3 -m http.server