Case file № 002 · Editorial Sites · 2025
Meridian Press
A catalogue site for Novella Books that treats every title page like a broadsheet spread — and loads like a pamphlet.
- Client
- Novella Books
- Timeline
- Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
- Stack
- Next.js · Tailwind CSS · TypeScript · Cloudflare
- Live
- example.org ↗
Chapter I
The Brief
A catalogue site for Novella Books that treats every title page like a broadsheet spread — and loads like a pamphlet.
Chapter IV
The Solution
Chapter V
The Results
- 0
- Lighthouse performance
- 0 KB
- Page weight
- +0%
- Organic traffic lift
He talked about our catalogue the way our typesetters talk about our books. The site he built belongs on the same shelf as the titles it sells.
Chapter VI
Colophon
Appendix A — The stack
frontend
- Next.js ↗
Fully static export — the whole site is files on a shelf.
- Tailwind CSS ↗
A tokenised editorial theme kept the spreads consistent.
language
- TypeScript ↗
The catalogue importer refuses malformed spreadsheet rows loudly.
infrastructure
- Cloudflare ↗
Edge caching so fair-week traffic spikes cost nothing.
Case file № 002 · filed April 2026 · typeset in Fraunces & Source Serif