terms - sorin frasina

used terms

let’s think at a website like an old fashioned book.
and let’s review, in short, the book anatomy terms:

the essential elements of a front cover include title and author name.
optional elements include the subtitle (if there is one) and photos, background images or graphics.

the book block

all the leaves of the book. each leaf has two pages.

the title page

the title page of a book is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition. (a half title, by contrast, displays only the title of a work.)

the copyright page

displayed on the rear of the title page includes the title of the book, the author’s name, the publisher information and country of printer/printing edition.

the table of contents

usually headed simply “contents” is a list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.

the foreword

forewords are written by someone other than the author.

the preface

the preface gives the author, the opportunity to introduce himself to his readers.

the introduction

it’s necessary for the book’s comprehension.

the substance of the book

all the pages, numbered. usually grouped in chapters. sometimes the chapters are divided into subchapters. the first page of a chapter or a subchapter is listed in the table of contents.

the back cover

also called “blurb”. usually a teaser.

looking through my images i asked myself one day: why not displaying them on the website using this concepts…? so i started playing arround.