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The Challenge

Zorro Productions manages a franchise spanning more than a century of film, television, comics, stage and licensed products. Its website carried almost none of that structure.

A Website That Had Aged Out Of Its Brand

The design and user experience no longer reflected a property with this level of global recognition. For a licensing business where the site is often the first stop for a prospective partner, the gap between the brand’s stature and its digital presence was costing them credibility in the first thirty seconds.

Content Scattered And Incomplete

Information was disorganized across the site, with key details missing entirely and the same kinds of content presented inconsistently from one page to the next. There was no reliable way for a visitor to understand what the franchise actually encompassed.

Navigation And Architecture That Worked Against The Visitor

The site structure was overly complex and difficult to move through. Franchise history, media, licensing information and news were not separated in a way that matched how any of the site’s audiences approached it.

No Dedicated Pages For The Franchise’s Own Work

The property’s major film, television, comic and stage productions had no pages of their own. A century of work — the strongest proof available in a licensing conversation — had nowhere to live on the site.

Nothing Built For The Licensing Audience

Prospective licensees arriving to evaluate the brand had no structured route from the franchise’s track record to a licensing inquiry.

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The Solution

Digital Silk rebuilt the site from the ground up, starting with strategy and user flows rather than design, so the structure could carry the full scale of the franchise without becoming another maze.
  • Strategic Planning & User Flow Mapping

    We began by mapping how the site’s audiences actually move through a franchise property: licensees assessing the brand’s commercial track record, media and press looking for current activity, and fans exploring the history. Those flows determined the architecture before any page was designed.
  • A Rebuilt, Simplified Architecture

    We reorganized the site into clear top-level territories — newsroom, film and television, live and stage, comics, licensing, and brand history — so each audience has a direct route in rather than a single undifferentiated structure.
  • Dedicated Project Pages For The Franchise’s Work

    We built individual pages for the property’s major productions, covering film and television adaptations, the comic lines and the stage productions. Each carries its own detail and its own place in the architecture, turning a scattered back catalog into browsable proof of the brand’s reach.
  • A Categorized Media Library

    We developed a taxonomy-driven media library that lets visitors browse the franchise by format — films, television, books and comics — so the full portfolio is navigable by type rather than buried in prose.
  • A Newsroom For Current Activity

    We added a structured newsroom so the team can publish current franchise news themselves, from new licensing agreements to international stage productions and film developments. It gives the site a reason to be revisited and shows prospective partners an active property rather than an archive.
  • A Cinematic, Video-Led Design Built Mobile-First

    We designed a video-led experience with an animated reveal and layered visual treatments that carry the character’s atmosphere, with separate mobile-optimized video assets so the effect holds on a phone rather than degrading.
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The Results

Zorro Productions launched a site that finally matches the scale of the property behind it:
  • 20+
    dedicated individual project pages for film, TV series, comics, and even live plays and musicals
  • 6
    clear brand territories: newsroom, film and TV, live and stage, comics, licensing, and history
  • Responsive
    and video-led experience, with purpose-built mobile assets rather than a scaled-down fallback
  • Categorized
    media library, making the full franchise portfolio browsable by format rather than buried in page copy
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