This project proved to be a nice challenge that is different from everything else I am doing in my other classes this semester. The making of the webpage was almost completely trial-and-error, as I incorporated little bits I found online into my own page.
After doing some searching, I found a nifty website that gave me all the listings of New York Times best-sellers. I had the option of choosing how to sort them, and I chose adult fiction books separated by year (rather than author or title). I used the listing of each book, author, publisher, and date to look up the matching book cover, starting from the latest 2017 best-sellers and going back to January 2010. The total number of covers I saved was 235; though, I really wanted to go back further (my original goal was to do roughly ten years, 2007-2017). However, the amount of time it was taking to complete the process was longer than I would have liked.
I used Professor Whalen’s toolkit Image Macroanalysis in Javascript to organize my images in multiple ways. It took some fiddling to get my images to be in chronological order. After messing around with file folders and file names, I finally created one large folder with each image renamed with a three digit number starting with 001 for the first book in January 2010 to 709 for the latest book in April 2017.
Overall, I am pleased with my results, though if I were given more time I would have liked to personalize the webpage even more. And feel free to take a gander at the final product.
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