Formatting title page?

[Alda]

Does anyone have any great tips for formatting title pages to make them look good? Mine looks really bleh with just title and byline.

Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Alda

Does anyone have any great tips for formatting title pages to make them look good? Mine looks really bleh with just title and byline.

Thanks!

Title pages in most of my dead tree books are pretty basic.
BP's throw in their logo at the bottom, but typically, there is a lot of whit space.

Title page is NOT the cover

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by theducks

Title page is NOT the cover

That's one thing that annoys me about ebooks, just about every book I open up to fix has the cover page named "titlepage" and I always end up renaming it if I'm in the book for other corrections.

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by Alda

Does anyone have any great tips for formatting title pages to make them look good? Mine looks really bleh with just title and byline.

Thanks!

Try something like this.

[exaltedwombat]

But what if his book isn't called "The Captain of the Kansas"? :-)

[exaltedwombat]

Originally Posted by Alda

Does anyone have any great tips for formatting title pages to make them look good? Mine looks really bleh with just title and byline.

Thanks!

That's what generally goes on a title page. Don't fuss. A reader isn't going to spend much time there.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

That's one thing that annoys me about ebooks, just about every book I open up to fix has the cover page named "titlepage" and I always end up renaming it if I'm in the book for other corrections.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[Jellby]

The "standard" one I use:

<div class="title">

<p class="title">The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</p>

<p class="author">Mark Twain</p>

<p><img class="photo" src="images/Twain.jpg" alt="Mark Twain" /></p>

<p class="date">1876</p>

<p>Illustrated by: <em>True Williams</em></p>

</div>

with:

div.title {
  text-align: center;
  font-weight: bold;
}
p {
  text-indent: 0;
}
p.title {
  font-size: 200%;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}
p.subtitle {
  font-size: 150%;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}
p.author {
  font-size: 150%;
  font-style: italic;
  margin-top: 2em;
}
p.date {
  font-size: 120%;
}
img.photo {
  max-width: 80%;
}

[Alda]

Thank you!