Production lesson 6

After receiving feedback from my teacher, I decided to redesign my layout for the paper, using the original ideas but with a different format to prevent it looking too blocked. After beginning to redesign my work, I had to first create my logo in Illustrator due to the original looking pixilated when scaled larger:

As you can see, the one on the left looks far better than the original

I was then able to experiment with drop shadows, transparency tools and gradients to produce a better quality logo:

I've then placed the new logo document into my new layout:

My teacher also suggested varying my fonts to ensure my title stands out, therefore the 'EXPRESS' is now in bold.

Over half term I plan to take images for my cover story and double page spread, as well as my website photographs. I'm aiming for something similar to images I found whilst researching:

Newspaper Screenshots 2

Website design

I've decided to use Wordpress to create my site as I can incorporate a blog. I'd like to show the progression of the papers release using the blog to advertise my Newspaper. I've also used Dreamweaver for the coding:


.clear {
height: 1px;
clear: both;
}

.clear_footer {
height: 50px;
clear: both;
}

#footer {
height: 50px;
position: relative;
background-color: #948C75;
}

#footer_content {
color: #fff;
width: 990px;
line-height: 50px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

#footer_content ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

#footer_content ul li {
display: block;
float: left;
margin-right: 20px;
}

#publisher_logo {
height: 50px;
float: left;
margin-right: 20px;

Another application I use was photoshop and InDesign to create the images seen on my website: