How to Design for one content type?

[aldumestani]

Hello dears,
I new at web design and i have a friend he is an auther he has 10 books and he want to make a website as alibrary for his books so the users can read them and download some of them i am tring to figure out how can i design a website for one type of content only books ? any idaes any websites deal with one content may help, thank you in advanced

Regardes,
Aldumestani

[ralph.m]

I'm sure if you search for "books" in your favorite search engine you will find lots of sites that deal with books.

A better way to start, I feel, is to look at what content he needs to present, and how it can best be organized, and let a design naturally arise from that.

[TehYoyo]

How about a splash screen with a background image of a bookcase with his books as images that can be linked to that book's page?

I think that'd be cool. You could have navigation on the top for bio, contact, etc.

You could also just limit the website to the splash screen w/ Javascript pop-ups for summaries, reviews, downloading, etc.

Good luck.
~TehYoyo

[TechnoBear]

You could also just limit the website to the splash screen w/ Javascript pop-ups for summaries, reviews, downloading, etc.

And how would you cater for uses with JavaScript disabled?

[TehYoyo]

And how would you cater for uses with JavaScript disabled?

I couldn't quite tell you! I'll have to think about that when my academics aren't such a pressing concern late at night

Edit: Good point, TB

[aldumestani]

Hello,Thank you all very nice Ideas it opens the closed loop I was looping in
what do think about this ?
- Header with title.
- Splash screen ( Or Slideshow to present the new books or top books)
- A book could be displayed either in a table as a list or the book covers with descriptions or we give the user the two options
- Sidebar with Mailing list
- The footer

Regardes,