WEBSITE

WEBSITE.

I now need to grasp iWeb, ahh! It will take time, today's date is 22 February, it's half term and I've come in to try get a little help with the basics of the website! I'll be coming to college tomorrow probably too. So anyway I've looked iWeb now, looks blank really and the way I pop my photos on is to drag them from my files onto the desktop, then drag it into the web! Pretty simple however my desktop is going to look messy :/. Only thing I've done so far is copy my News Paper title The Southern News by grab, capture selection! The dragged that out to my desktop. I have also got up the actual The News website itself so I can copy the kind of outlay of it and have my own photos in it too! Pretty much this, popped it in the top like how The News does with their s. I like how they've designed theirs though, doubt I could do it either but hey I know I change my mind an awful lot so we'll see. Looks very nice. This is the website I've got open, The News.

This is the kind of look I'm aspiring to for my website. On the top, NEWS SPORTS LIFESTYLE COMMUNITY Then a date, and a number of headlines. A picture on the left, a headline then sub-heading, roughly about a paragraph ish. I think I can do that! I will need many more photos thou gh I think I am running out. So that is what I'l be hopefully finishing tomorrow is the front page! :)

17th March - I'm behind on my website. Taken a couple of photos for it, and the general website looks like this so far - looks rubbish! I like the photo, and I've titled it as 'SUPERMARKET RECEIVES AWARD' and then underneath in just simple ARIEL font ' Waitrose Waterlooville celebrate their third year running on best customer service 2011'.

So that's fine, think I'l just edit the other parts, like the colours, I'm not particularly keen on yellow and green together. So think I'l link it more to yellow w ith blue like in my inner page! Lets see .. So I've changed the top bars where it says NEWS etc .. changed it to a box and filled it with a gradient fill with a blue and white - used this circle wheel picture to choose where I'd like the white and blue ... here's how it looks. Now just going to press on with more writing and pasting more images onto the page because it needs to be done! Right I've done a few more things and I shall paste a picture of how it looks so far. To be honest I thought I'd find this website easier but it's fiddly! Trying to position these bottom columns in line with eachother isn't working out right, it keeps automatically re-setting to other positions. So spending time on trying to get it neater. My top bar I've included a search bar, made a box basically and it's already filled in with white so stuck it in the empty space - then I captured the little magnifying glass from THE NEWS website and popped that into mine too. Looks realistic now!

More on inner page

FINISHING THE PIECE

So, I've cracked on with my inner page this lesson, 16-02-11. It's mega fiddly! Trying to carry on with the same kind of way The News designs their paper. Gradually the process has been slow but I've got there finally! the very top I've put in The Southern News logo on the left, then in the centre, www.southernnews.co.uk - in red just the The News does itself. The on the right hand side the date - simple pimple. Now working my way down, the banner bit in a light blue shade, just like the one in The News, nice neutral colour I feel that it compliments the other colours in the page overall. A picture of people walking in a forest had been cropped! Then I headlined it "Forest Protest Continues" then underneath "Citizens rebel against sale" (of the Forest supposedly)

The next picture is of friend holding a fish! Yum, I cropped it which I've mentioned somewhere else .. I've headlined that "Local Fish Market Wins Award" then "Highest standard in hygience continues" After each of those two headlines I put a mini box and coloured that white then places a 'page 9' after it imitating The News. The headlines are in white and the sub parts in black, giving it a softer look to the photos as the colours can be quite harsh against the light blue background. Now the weather didn't take me as long as I thought, however it certainly was fiddly trying to place to evenly without squashing other bits too. I grabbed and selected three pieces of weather from google, a sunshine, rain and cloud!

They appear nice and simple, then i made up the weather for the next four days, trying to write it in a way like how I see on the BBC news. The basic information then a temperature. I kept the font small so space wouldn't look too packed. After those four dates I set, underneath I put another box and filled it with the same blue as I had when I titled it WEATHER with blue in the background. The font is Times just like the rest. I don't think I copied the design that The News did, I saw a peer's work and I liked how she did hers and to be honest it did look newspaper worth.

So I added in the option for details then the actual details in red therefore it can reflect the other website information up the top of the inner page. I've changed the TOPSHOP ad like I predicted I would, my teacher had also agreed with me that it appeared pretty dull! So I changed the background to a pink, which actually compliments the font, looking funky and young which is the correct type of portrayal for TOPSHOP. I will probably put a small image of a bag or something in the gap on the bottom right as it's empty. The photo for the main story has been kept, I love the look of it, someone semi-smiling but also appearing uncomfortable. A reader could possibly see that and think 'ah what's that about?' In addition to that, my peers in my class have said the photo looks good. I've finished the story too! I have used Times font, and in size 12, two columns like The News. With the story I stuck to the main facts like who took part, where? New Forrest.

Also some opinions and feedback following from the front page too! To the right at the top border part I have placed a picture of the kebab shop in the end, it looks like this. The red in this is brought out by my TOPSHOP advertisement too, colours all around. Something negative in the paper too, must always have that. Moral Panic wouldn't come into this concept though, which is something I haven't really put into my paper apart from the Strike. Anyway, it's how it has turned out too. Words like 'havoc', 'disturbing' and 'disgrace' will portray a negative side to a story, making it readable. Underneath I have also popped in a photo of my friends in the snow. Wrote it as if the story were about students? Judging by the age group I think this would target a younger reader for my paper also. Soo here is how it looks!!

COME BACK

After some time trying to sort out my InDesign program, I have finally found a way to save my work and keep it! The previous file had corrupted so I've had to copy my work into another document after some time trying to figure a way in saving my work. Slightly frustrating but it's now been dealt with and I know how to deal with it in the future.

So far I've moved bits about again, just sizing but I'm pretty happy with my headline and main image. Instead of beginning the story underneath I've decided to use a different image (caving one) and introduce another story for that also. The title is 'CAVING TRIUMPH AS GROUP RAISES £2000 FOR CANCER CHARITY'

I've added the date, price (80p), The News is 50p but I chose 80p because I wanted it to be a bit more expensive, the content of the 'to-be' newspaper would be richer. I've written up my story ish about the caving act - I've talked about a group raising money doing things like caving, hiking etc. I've got some more photos to use for the inner page so it'l be colourful and interesting.