By David Kudler Admit it: when you read the word metadata, your eyes glaze over. But to an indie author/publisher, metadata is probably the most important part of your book — aside from the book itself, of course. Let’s talk about what metadata actually is, and how...
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during May, 2017. This month we received: 84 covers in the Fiction category 18 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments, Award Winners, and Gold Stars I’ve added comments (JF: ) to many of...
So I’ve talked about how to call style in the HTML of an ebook, and I’ve talked about the kinds of rules that you can invoke. This time around, we’re going to look at which rules take priority over which — and I’ll also share some fun examples of ways you can use CSS...
This is the twelfth in my on-going series of posts here on ebook creation; it’s also the second on the subject of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Last time, we talked about how (and where) to add CSS in order to define how the HTML that makes up an ebook will look. This...
If HTML is the blueprint, showing how an ebook (or a web page) should be laid out, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the interior design, saying how everything should look. While that may sound superficial, in fact learning to use CSS can have a profound impact on your...