My thesis explores the realm in which literature exists to nonreaders. I have digitally rendered a webspace that invites user interaction and visually tells the story of Dolly Alderton’s bestselling memoir, “Everything I Know About Love." The visual assets that typically come with a piece of literature—if any—can span various mediums from world-building maps, family trees, recipe layouts, choose your own adventures, simple character illustration, square footage layout, written entry submissions, etc. The webspace I have coded using HTML, CSS, and Javascript is an amalgamation of all sorts of visual assets that are therein a summation of Alderton’s memoir.
Spanning the categories of life, friends, parties, food, dates, and jobs, my webspace explores each avenue with handpicked excerpts from Alderton’s memoir and topical graphics and gifs. The book is set in London during the '80s and my site is meant to reflect the source material. Taking a bit of a more objective perspective rather than subjective, the treatment of certain visual elements becomes the user’s own experience wherein they can make the webspace their own. In addition to being immersed in a fictional literary universe, users are consumed by the essence of the general message conveyed throughout Alderton’s memoir. “Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”