minutes of meetings

people invlolved: james, hayden, ash, kirk

in a group discussed all the class' template/style sheets. we went through them individually pointing out how we felt and why that was. during the meeting i felt that the class had made progress because we all listened to what everyone had to say and we didn't interrupt or anything. each aspect that we didnt agree with we aired, these were:

-The poor use of text wrapping
- the boring text- unproffesional imagery
- lack of header and footers
- better placement of by-lines and box-outs, in order to present a better, less confusing read - we might border them
- nicer wrapping and smaller text for the quotation pull-outs
-mainly just a lack of professional look

this discussion went very quickly as we picked out the negatives really quickly - this may have been as we only had one lesson to work on the previews and rushed ourselves to get the text on there as soon as possible for examples.we;re now about to work on our new style-sheet in Pages. we've decided to drop the possibility of using InDesign as none of us know exactly how to use it well. after all, Pages is perfectly adequate - it centre images well, has good fonts, masking capabilities and wrapping options - all important for our tabloid design.