Notasgoodasthebook.com
Case Study
Client: Personal
My Role(s): Developer, Designer, Writer, Editor
Featured Examples:
- Notasgoodasthebook.com Masthead and Category Navigation
- Notasgoodasthebook.com Banners
- Notasgoodasthebook.com Home Page
Notasgoodasthebook.com is a pet project of mine. The site was live for a while early in 2009, but I felt that I needed a drastic redesign, so I stopped posting content and spent months tweaking it whenever I could find a moment away from my other work.
In addition to designing and coding the WordPress theme, I also came up with a fun set of flash banners depicting the pleasure of reading a book and the ugly disappointment one finds when reading/seeing/hearing its less-than-worthy adaptations. The logo is a simple type treatment over a bookmark. The inspiration for the colors/shading/textures of the visual design was a mingling of the favorite hardcover books of my past.
I am the editor and the main contributing author to the site, but hope to see many more public submissions and posts from a group of regular contributing authors as the site grows.
I used numerous great free open-sourced plugins for WordPress to accomplish much of the functionality. The category icons are modified versions of inages from several open-sourced icon sets.
