please help a design-challenged e-book programmer...

check this out:
>   http://www.greatamericannovel.com/meyer/shot.html

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.
>   http://www.greatamericannovel.com/meyer/goodbook.jpg

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/leftblank.jpg

combining my gutter with the page from brewster gives us:
>   http://www.greatamericannovel.com/meyer/blank.html
(the colors don't match up, but you get the idea here; breaking
the overall image up into pieces like these might be necessary.)

anyway, if this is fun for anyone out there, have at it...

-bowerbird