Portfolio Case Study
Short AI Stories Website Design & Development
OHS Publishing designed and developed a dark, cinematic WordPress website for Short AI Stories, an online horror fiction brand built around original short stories, custom cover artwork, story archives, social sharing, and a growing content library.
The Challenge
Short AI Stories needed more than a standard blog layout. The brand needed a website that felt dark, visual, and story-driven while still being easy to browse, read, and expand over time.
The project required a custom WordPress layout that could support a growing library of horror stories, strong featured images, mobile-friendly navigation, social promotion, individual story pages, and future content sections without feeling like a generic blog.
The Solution
OHS Publishing created a customized WordPress website experience built around atmosphere, readability, and content organization. The design uses a darker visual direction, large story imagery, simplified navigation, and structured story layouts to help visitors explore the growing library.
Custom Horror-Inspired Design
A dark visual direction was created to match the tone of the stories and give the site a stronger entertainment-brand feel.
Story Archive Layout
The archive was styled to showcase featured images and make browsing stories more visual and engaging.
Single Story Page Improvements
Story pages were adjusted for better readability, stronger presentation, and a cleaner experience across desktop and mobile.
Growth-Friendly Structure
The site was built to support more stories, coming soon sections, social sharing, future audio features, and ongoing content expansion.
Project Features
- Custom WordPress website design
- Dark horror-themed visual styling
- Story archive layout focused on featured images
- Improved single story readability
- Custom homepage sections
- Coming soon content area
- Mobile-friendly navigation adjustments
- Social media integration
- SEO-friendly page and content structure
- Scalable layout for future stories and content categories
Before & After
Before
- Generic blog-style presentation
- Limited visual branding
- Story archive needed stronger image focus
- Single story pages needed improved readability
- Navigation and footer areas needed customization
After
- Custom dark horror brand experience
- More visual story browsing experience
- Improved story page layout and spacing
- Cleaner mobile-friendly structure
- Better foundation for SEO, social sharing, and future growth
Design Direction
The creative direction focused on making the website feel like a digital horror library instead of a basic blog. Large cover-style images, darker colors, stronger contrast, and simplified content sections help the site match the eerie tone of the stories while keeping the reading experience clean.
Because Short AI Stories publishes ongoing content, the design also needed to stay flexible. The layout can support new stories, new categories, featured posts, promotional sections, and future content upgrades without requiring a full redesign.
Project Outcomes
- Created a stronger branded website experience for a horror fiction platform
- Improved how story content is presented and browsed
- Made featured images a larger part of the user experience
- Improved readability across story pages
- Built a flexible WordPress structure for future content growth
- Created a better foundation for social promotion and organic search
Project Screenshots
The Short AI Stories website was designed to highlight the visual tone of the brand while keeping the story content easy to access. Screenshots from the project can be used to show the homepage, story archive, individual story layout, and mobile experience.
Services Used on This Project
This project included a combination of design, development, content structure, and search-focused planning to create a website that could grow with the brand over time.
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