please help a design-challenged e-book programmer... check this out:
at the upper-left is a design for the title-page/cover. at the upper-right is the same thing, with coordinates, so you can tell how you'd suggest anything be moved... the upper-left design is repeated at lower-left, with an alternate design at lower-right. do you prefer it? this isn't just for this one cover, or i wouldn't bother... it's concerning how i will write the all-purpose routine for formatting covers, so i'd like to do a good job of it, since it will be for thousands and thousands of books... i noticed josh uses left-justified headers in his .tei books; do people think that looks nice? or is the old-fashioned centering still the best way to go? (i think so, but i don't want to be too inflexible, so i'm willing to consider it all.) any other suggestions -- a splash of color or what-not? -- would be welcome as well to spruce up the look of this and move it into the digital world of the 21st-century e-book... while i'm at it, here's one of the backgrounds i've been using.
any feedback on that would be greatly appreciated, as would a reworking of your own design. (credit granted, naturally...) and here's a nice "page" background from brewster kahle:
http://www.greatamericannovel.com/meyer/blank.html (the colors don't match up, but you get the idea here; breaking
combining my gutter with the page from brewster gives us: the overall image up into pieces like these might be necessary.) anyway, if this is fun for anyone out there, have at it... -bowerbird