Era News Template Design Contest

[Seich]

Hello, this is my entry.

when making the template I took into consideration several thing rather than just the organization of things. I emphasized heavily on typography, using several styles that matched around the page in order to make it more pleasant to the eye as well as aesthetically appealing. Also, the way it's organized is mostly a standard around several newspapers around the world. Lastly, the job was made using photoshop and, even if it doesn't add anything of importance to the final work, it will make the editing a lot easier, considering that it was saved in a heavily organized ".psd" file which will allow the page to be easily reorganized and edited to create different styles or simply add and edit content.

I welcome any feedback.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Seich

Hello, this is my entry.

when making the template I took into consideration several thing rather than just the organization of things. I emphasized heavily on typography, using several styles that matched around the page in order to make it more pleasant to the eye as well as aesthetically appealing. Also, the way it's organized is mostly a standard around several newspapers around the world. Lastly, the job was made using photoshop and, even if it doesn't add anything of importance to the final work, it will make the editing a lot easier, considering that it was saved in a heavily organized ".psd" file which will allow the page to be easily reorganized and edited to create different styles or simply add and edit content.

I welcome any feedback.

One thing I'd like to mention is that you need to be really careful with typography. We'll only be able to use a few fonts ... Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Times (thanks Stephen); otherwise, fonts would render too different on different platforms, and it would be nearly impossible to create the newspaper because each platform would show something different.

[Seich]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

One thing I'd like to mention is that you need to be really careful with typography. We'll only be able to use a few fonts ... Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Times (thanks Stephen); otherwise, fonts would render too different on different platforms, and it would be nearly impossible to create the newspaper because each platform would show something different.

-.-' I didn't take into consideration that it was going to be scripted.. In that case I will have to make a few changes in order to make it cross-platform compatible.

edit: Not as appealing but it should look the (almost) same across all operating systems... here it is...

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Seich

-.-' I didn't take into consideration that it was going to be scripted.. In that case I will have to make a few changes in order to make it cross-platform compatible.

edit: Not as appealing but it should look the (almost) same across all operating systems... here it is...

Word wrap also isn't going to work very well, if at all

Besides that, I really like it. The stroke on your pictures is ridiculous, newspapers as a standard have no stroke or a 1/2 pica stroke (at least from what my journalism teacher says).

[Seich]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Word wrap also isn't going to work very well, if at all

Besides that, I really like it. The stroke on your pictures is ridiculous, newspapers as a standard have no stroke or a 1/2 pica stroke (at least from what my journalism teacher says).

the stroke is part of the place holder.. i wasn't really going to add it to any images.. it was simply to mark the area... I will work on a simpler version...

edit: once again... here's my entry... I don't really know how your system will work so I don't know what would be the best layout... maybe you can give me some sort of hint..

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Seich

the stroke is part of the place holder.. i wasn't really going to add it to any images.. it was simply to mark the area... I will work on a simpler version...

edit: once again... here's my entry... I don't really know how your system will work so I don't know what would be the best layout... maybe you can give me some sort of hint..

That's better, but I don't like the tall picture. 99percent of Graal screenshots are going to be horizontal and small.

[Seich]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

That's better, but I don't like the tall picture. 99percent of Graal screenshots are going to be horizontal and small.

okay I will change that...

edit: okay, I made 2 of them this time.. I am not sure which one is more practical.. so here are both of them...