Advice sought on layout and graphics

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:42 pm

I'm pushing toward a present for my daughter which involves making a book on lulu.com and I'm stuck thinking it needs more than I've done. Be warned, anyone looking at the preview would do well to have a fast internet connection.

http://www.lulu.com/content/2590207

I'm going back to get a few more photos for the last pages. What am I screwing up on? Font, white space, variety?

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:39 pm

I don't see anything there... what am i doing wrong?:-3

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:42 pm

Waiting, probably, if you clicked Preview This Book. The webpage has to download the document before it shows the cover and lets you flip through the pages.

I just checked - you're already at the preview stage, it's just the waiting that's needed. The cover goes orange when the preview's arrived. Preview This Book shows it in a bigger window, that's all.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:20 pm

I just read it and loved it, your daughter will be thrilled.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:14 pm

thank you sweetie!

downloading now... i love this kinda stuff!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:29 pm

OK I get the first page and can view the back cover and that's it HELP Spot?? OK never mind I finally got it very nice Spot your daughter will enjoy it greatly what a wonderful memory they will both have when they read this together.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:29 am

you could always use a different (colorful?) font so that it looks like it was written by a kid. Does that make sense??

But it's a great gift for your daughter, I love it.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:27 pm

What about a picture of Felicity eating Readybrek. :wah:

Post by **spot** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:39 pm

I tell you, that child never has a hair out of place, every spoonful goes straight in and not a crumb needs brushing loose after. Except when she had the bowl of jelly and used her fingers, that was a disaster, I'm still scrubbing the floor from that episode. I'm told she got home and had to be changed hourly until dawn when the effects became fully apparent.

I've a few more pics to add before I print a copy and I think I'll drop by the zoo on Sunday to sneak up on the cassowary, we don't have one of those yet. And maybe a tarantula. And I need to throw in a lot of CD slip covers to make things easier to follow.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:29 pm

spot;963286 wrote: I'm pushing toward a present for my daughter which involves making a book on lulu.com and I'm stuck thinking it needs more than I've done. Be warned, anyone looking at the preview would do well to have a fast internet connection.

http://www.lulu.com/content/2590207

I'm going back to get a few more photos for the last pages. What am I screwing up on? Font, white space, variety?

Wow! Congratulations - that is the first thing, ever, to crash my Ubuntu system. Started to load lulu and then, bang, back to the login page.

Post by **spot** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:29 pm

Thank you Ian, that's very much what I needed.

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:46 pm

Ian;964363 wrote: Watermarks look good, it's the little things like page numbers that make a big difference to the whole feel... eg: a little teddy bear background image for the page numbers, things like that..

It would be even better if Felicity drew the zoo animals for your book...

just little simple drawings, I will re-size and edit what you need...

I really like the idea of hand-drawn imagery.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:20 am

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Thats what I got spock.

I waited diligently, fed the cat, made coffee, had some tangerine juice and a cinnamon roll, took my vitamins.

And then I got that.