Haley
Blog Post 9
Working on the yearbook is still hectic as always. I still have to pick the main colors for the book, as mentioned before. We also have been brainstorming design ideas for pages. For example, we’ve been putting in graphics of a splatter that match the front cover and sticking in a class year, like Class of 2013. (The graphic goes at the top of the page with a gradient spreading out from the center of the page.) The splatter is black, while the text within is all colors, just like the cover.
We’d also like to do something along these lines for the page numbers, but we haven’t decided if we will be left with enough room for that, what with the ads that run along the bottom of the page. The staff also must go sell ad space to local businesses in the spring.
Paul Maxwell, who is now my new mentor, replaced Jordan Hall. He came to visit the staff yesterday and brought some helpful hints with him. He informed us of a help hotline that can always be dialed, where a team somewhat similar to the geek squad is ready to help answer any questions you may have. He also printed us off a manual on how to operate the website, www.yearbookavenue.com. This should help us out a great deal, since none of the staff or our adviser have worked on this website in the past. Paul also showed us that there is a Check For Errors button available when working on your page. That should also be very convenient.
One feature of the Josten’s website requires pictures to be tagged for indexing purposes. This entails going to each uploaded photo and identifying who people are in the picture. I’ve been busy registering people in the photos. So far, pictures of the junior class, sophomores, and the junior high have been uploaded and tagged. There’re also a few photos of the One-Act play at the ready.
Naturally, the yearbook cannot be finished by the time school lets out. It is usually the duty of the yearbook staff to work diligently throughout the summer until their product is complete. This year will be no different. Luckily, we should be able to borrow a lot of material we’ve already used for the newsletters and use that information to make writing our articles as stress-free as possible.
So far, the biggest obstacle I’m facing is arranging page layouts and designs. I think once we have developed a basic setup and applied it to each page, it should be fairly easy to simply add in captions, pProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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tures, and our stories.
Mrs. Rahn and I have been trying for a while to come up with a scheduled time for us to work for an hour a week (this not counting the time spent in class with the other staff members.) We have tentatively decided to meet on Thursdays after school for an hour, and hopefully that helps us make some progress.
