Comments on: Designing The Graveyard Book website

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:26:51 +0000

Thanks Charlie, and it is indeed a small world, I’m reminded of that very often : )

By: Charlie Parmentier

Charlie Parmentier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:14:37 +0000

Nice design indeed. Thanks for sharing your thinking behind it.
Great work, very well done.

On a different note, I’d just like to say what a small world this is though…
I happen to work for David Gaiman, (Neil Gaiman’s father) who owns a vitamin and food supplement company, based in West Sussex (UK).

I stumbled across your website completely by pure coincidence!

By: Sharon Bassett

Sharon Bassett — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:58:23 +0000

Hi Tony!
I found what you have written here to be quite helpful. I have been trying to study up a bit on grid-based design over the last couple of weeks and it is nice to see a real example.

I understand the fundamentals of the design layout and now I am just trying to muddle through the CSS from a development standpoint. I just downloaded the sample files from 960 (http://960.gs/) and so I might have question or two for you over the next little bit of time.

Hope things are well!
Sharon

By: Ryan Battles

Ryan Battles — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:53:41 +0000

Tony, I am impressed with your designs and skill! Thanks for taking the time to write about your design decisions. I will surely keep your RSS feed in my reader to find continued inspiration.

By: slydell

slydell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:46:35 +0000

hey this is a great design. your site is great too.

slydell, web developer
guyana

By: Patrick Samphire

Patrick Samphire — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:28:04 +0000

Thanks, Tony. That makes perfect sense. I think you’re right that aligning to the left would look wrong, but it’s really interesting to hear your thinking.

I’ll echo Brian. I’d be very happy to read more of these.

By: tony

tony — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:06:46 +0000

Patrick: Thanks. You know, I never even considered left aligning the text on the right hand side. One reason is that, in the masthead, I wanted to have the words aligned similarly to the words on the cover of the book. Having a flush left layout in there would also create conflict with the jagged right outline of the knife. Having the text centered would hide some of that. After this it would have looked odd to left align the intro text, so I ran with it for most of the rest of the content.

The columns also worked conveniently for me to have a decent sized image of the cover art and to have it centered.

Brian: Thanks! Halfway through I started to wonder if there really was an interest and I decided to cut it a bit short.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:46:22 +0000

I think it looks good. I love the comparisons between the old and new.
I definitely think you should continue this series of explaining your designs – but you should go more in depth – after all you only covered two aspects of the design! But great post overall, I look forward to seeing more.

By: Patrick Samphire

Patrick Samphire — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:43:17 +0000

Nice. Very imaginative use of the grid. I’m wondering about the choice to centre the text in the header and below. I can’t completely decide whether I like it or not. What was your thinking there?