Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Website basic structure ideas

I've been doing some poking around online to see if I can find some other good sites on book arts/binding that will help give me some ideas about how I want to structure my site and also provide some good external link references. A lot of the sites I've come across are very informative, but not necessarily appealing. A good example of this is aboutbookbinding.com. It has LOTS of information (several free entire online books on binding!) but it was kind of boring to look at and a lot of the instructions are hard to follow because there aren't a lot of pictures. The Bookbinding for Beginners part of that site was a little better because it had diagrams, but I would like to have step by step photographs on my site. This book assembly photo-journal on livejournal and this bookbinding: start to finish set on flickr are closer to what I'm thinking I'd like to do. Here's another excellent instructional article on binding from a site by Brian Sawyer.

Some of the major sections I think I would like to have on my page would be
  • Materials
  • Basic book forms
  • Paste paper
  • Folding techniques
  • Concertina
  • Case Binding
    • signatures
    • sewing
    • cover
These are just a few rough ideas, but hopefully this will give me a good start.

1 comment:

falblute said...

I really like the idea of doing a book binding website. This is one of those arts I would love to take a class on, but I think a DYI website would work well.