SistersErie.com started as my experiment with AI-assisted web design and image generation. It became a much larger problem, in the enjoyable sense: how do you make a band from a novel feel like four people with a history, a visual identity, and music you can actually listen to?
John Conroe supplied Sisters Erie in The Demon Accords. I had already turned their Wind & Rain Tour into a tee-shirt, complete with an itinerary. A website gave me room to follow the idea beyond what would fit on the back of a shirt.
Four people before four profile pages
The source material gave the sisters unequal amounts of attention. Ryanne had the most presence, Gael had less, and Mary and Aileen needed more development before I could give each of them a worthwhile page.
I worked with ChatGPT from the descriptions in the books, then added traits, habits, and connections of my own. I wanted to tell the sisters apart as people. I also wanted to stop getting Ryanne and Gael confused, which is a less grand but entirely valid design requirement.
The profiles became a foundation for the rest of the site. Someone's personality affects the photograph you choose, the way you describe her playing, and which song she should sing. Character development became part of the design work.
A website that belongs to the band
The site uses the recognizable structure of a band website: an introduction, the story, music, member profiles, and contact information. Its visual direction is contemporary Irish folk rock, with enough atmosphere to belong to the Sisters without turning every page into a generic fantasy poster.
The identity has details of its own. The wordmark includes a central pentacle and four crescent moons, one for each sister. Photography, portraits, artwork, and typography have to support the same band across different parts of the site.
The front end uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with PHP for the contact functionality. Individual member pages give the profiles space to breathe. The mobile navigation and page structure are part of making that material usable as a website, alongside making it attractive.
When the music became possible
Discovering what I could make with Suno changed the project. The site could contain music by Sisters Erie, with lyrics, artwork, and a developing discography.
That did not mean everything worked. Cover attempts were frustrating enough to change the production plan. Original songs became a more productive direction, and the process of writing and arranging them helped define the band further. Creating Running Underhill follows one of those journeys in detail.
The music section also has an editorial job. Track order, writing credits, lead singers, lyrics, and artwork all need to agree. A fictional release year belongs to the band's history; it does not become the real date on which I made the recording.
Keeping a growing project coherent
The project now has character references, visual guidance, decisions, and creative principles alongside the site itself. Those records help me keep a useful distinction between an idea that sounds good in a conversation and something I have actually decided belongs in the world.
AI can propose a convincing detail very quickly. Keeping the band coherent requires me to decide which details fit, revise the ones that almost fit, and preserve the decisions that future work should respect.
I also gave the website an in-world explanation for its incomplete archive: it had been hacked and was being restored. That is a storytelling choice. It lets a developing real website remain a believable artifact in the band's world.