Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

The Daily News Journal, which after a quick google search is in Murfreesboro, TN.

 

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I like ragged-right one-column rails for columns like that. Always have.

Toot's Sports Ticker? I'd scream until the glass in the glass offices shatter.

 

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It's a very distracting element on the page. Your eye is almost drawn to the Toot's instead of where it should be, on the news of the day.

 

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And the owner of Toots says "Yes!"

NEVER show that page to your publisher or advertising director.

 

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And in case anyone was wondering, Toots is a restaurant. Looks like they have four or five locations, including one in Murfreesboro.

Eat at Toots

 

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I don't like the four different column widths (at least the CP column appears wider than the bottom story?!) ...

There's something to be said for taking a story off grid ... but to have each story have different widths? Ugh.

 

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Taking Toots out of the equation (Porky's second choice for the name of his strip club, I'm sure), the art elements are arranged pretty well, those two top four-line heds, given that they're the same font, are too close together and too close in size. It looks like the copy is wide enough and the picture could have been made deep enough to go with a shoulder hed on the CP.

 

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The cutline on the main photo traps a large swath of white space on the page.
Perhaps bringing the photo up, running the cut underneath, and making the headline run in two columns vs. strapped across the top would help.

Rob: Toots' SportsDay. Nice ring to it.

 

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I like it -- anything to avoid the marble-drop effect -- and more importantly, readers I have spoken to also like it (and hate narrow columns of 10-point-or-smaller text). That said, the single column on the prep story looks to be too wide even for for my tastes. Could the boxscore run in a box there to break it up some?

 

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i don't like the italic head on the column... lightface and the column mug should be enough to say it's a column

and what's with the different indentions on the subheads?

the top subhead is three decks with the second and third deck indented, the centerpiece looks like there's a single-space indent on the second deck and then the first deck is indented on the third deck. as a great comedian once said, 'what's up with that?'

 

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I think those subheads are centered, which I don't like (especially the top subhead on the MTSU scholarship story). I used to think centered subheads were OK ... until I saw this page.

 

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you're right... they are centered, and awful