Case study · Author website · South Australia

Colleen Moyne: a lost domain, and an author site rebuilt from it.

Colleen Moyne is a South Australian author and poet who lives and travels full-time in a campervan. Her old Squarespace address, colleenmoyne.com, lapsed and couldn’t be recovered, so we recovered her words and rebuilt the site on colleenmoyne.com.au, live on 7 August 2026. This one is a project story, not a numbers story.

The Colleen Moyne homepage on a laptop and a phone: Australian author, poet and traveller

Client: Colleen Moyne, author and poet
Area: South Australian, travelling Australia full-time
Work: Rebuild on a new domain by JB Digital Barossa, recovered copy, book pages, Book structured data
Books: Called to Coddiwomple and Time Like Coins (Ginninderra Press)
Launched: 7 August 2026

Before, the work and after

Before to July 2026

A Squarespace site she found hard to manage from the road.

Then its address, colleenmoyne.com, lapsed into redemption and couldn’t be recovered.
Everything it had built up on Google went with it.

The work July – October 2026

Her old words recovered and rebuilt on colleenmoyne.com.au, so nothing she had written was lost.
A page for each book with Book structured data (ISBN, publisher), so search engines know exactly which book is which.
Her publications list, author talks and writing workshops, and News & Stories.
A simple editor she uses from wherever the van is parked, with a sign-in code by email.

What it does today

2 books with their own pages, plus her publications list and workshops.
Self-serve: Colleen posts her own news and photos.

Colleen’s campervan parked by a beach with turquoise water — Trevor, the van she writes from (Colleen’s photo).

The honest bits

Why there are no numbers here.

It’s a personal author site. Its search numbers are small and mostly people looking for Colleen by name, so we don’t present them as an SEO result.

The win is what wasn’t lost. A lapsed domain can take a writer’s whole online presence with it; here the words, the books and the publications list all came across.

From the owner

“Thankyou so much to Josh from JB Digital, he did an amazing job designing the website and led me through the whole process with ease. Would highly recommend if you are looking for someone who actually is local and affordable!”

Colleen Moyne · Google review of JB Digital Barossa

The build

The website is written up on JB Digital Barossa’s Colleen Moyne case study.