My latest assignments for Positive Spin are updating and rearranging the website and the "30-minute flyer."
For the website, Nick uses a program called Joomla!. I have never heard of Joomla! before so I'm a little worried about the speed and accuracy I can do this. I tried to insert an image from a file to the "directions" section, but it took me an hour before I gave up. Nothing frustrates me more than confusing technology. There is also the issue the Nick uses 1.0 when many online directions are for 1.5. I have never done anything on the web before, but I trust my computing skills enough to figure out a working process.
Writing for the website has one major question for argument, why is a bike/bus/walking/PRT better than a car? Every reason will have its own section with a paragraph or two, some pictures, and some links to various articles. I found one good one HERE.
The "30-minute flyer" was a flyer for a event called Go for the Groceries. Nick was off to give a safety lecture to a local school and said he would like a few flyers for this event. The trick was is that the lecture was in 50 minutes. That gave us 10-minutes to transfer all the files and information to my computer, 30-minutes to edit the flyer, and 10-minutes to print it out. Lucky for me, Nick had another flyer that I used as a template. I read and picked all the most important information that a school kid may find interesting, changed logo, added pictures, and edited it. It was only OK, if I had more time I could have really focused, but sometimes your just rushed.
The flyer may go in the tri-fold. I think that original/edited text will have a red background, and final drafts will have a green background.
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2 comments:
I know how you feel with working with the web for the first time. I had to try to figure out how to use Slate earlier in the semester and I almost threw the 800-year-old Mac I have to work with out the window I was so frustrated. I found it easiest to just take a break from the website stuff for awhile to save my sanity.
First, Erin Smith and you should consider talking about working with Joomla. Perhaps the two of you can share some helpful tips, shortcuts, design ideas, etc. -- or at the very least commiserate about your difficulties in working with the program.
I love that you got to experience that incredibly intense deadline assignment with the "30-minute flier." Your description of breaking up the 50 minutes in three different segments suggests that you have a good approach to managing projects, and as you learned, a sound planning approach really pays off when you're pressed for time and need to determine how best to produce a product.
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