On 27 Jul 98, at 15:05, Tamra R. Heathershaw-Hart wrote:
> I've always thought of the home/index page as a book cover myself, but
> that's because I'm addicted to reading. I grew up hanging out in the
> library -- that was my idea of an exciting time back in high school
> <wink>.
Yeah, I used to visit the library a lot myself. I can recall reading the
cereal box when I was a kid. I would read everything including the
fat content and everything else. When I sold books in Brazil I got
the idea that book readers were addicts. Customers would come
around on a regular basis to get their fix. I also got an idea for a
short story. I used to go to these odd neighborhoods in Rio de
Janeiro where no one spoke English and less read it. And I would
enter a house or apartment and someone would lead me to the
closet. And then I would open the door and all these books in
English would be stacked up or, rarely, on shelves. The owner of
the books was gone, usually deceased. No one who was there
really knew why this person had bought or read those books. I
always found it a bit sad.
> BTW, from talking to my friend Jane Fancher (4 sci-fi books published to
> date, 2 more due out soon) I know that covers aren't usually designed
> until the book has been written and is ready to be printed. And that the
> designer of the cover sometimes doesn't read the book, just reads an
> overview/summary.
I can understand that. But what I have seen are people who build
websites as covers and forget what the real purpose is. Certainly
their purpose is not that someone will say, "oh look, he knows how
to use a javascript roll-over or the blink tag as image now".
I like going to sites that I treat as books. Everytime I go there I
learn something new. Either I don't read everything the first time,
or there is always new content, or the content is so rich that I go
back to read it again (or I am too dense to grasp it the first time).
But I am just running across all these people who seemed to be
overly impressed with just an impression.
Peter
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