Week 7…Running into problems
As we know, we never finish a project within the time limits we want, which is why it’s so helpful we laid out a timeline for the work we’re doing for our clients. I am starting to run into problems because with the ideas I had for the newsletter; it is not going as planned as far as the programs I can use to create a newsletter template that will be accessible & editable for my client. I’ve been emailing our professor back & fourth a few times to see what solutions we can come up with for a free template software,. I’m really hoping to get this solved by the end of this week so I cannot get too behind on the rest of the semester, since I know more problems will of course arise!
This is part of the learning process though, that something I thought would be so simple to do for my client, turned into such a hassle, and more time consuming than I thought.
February 21st, 2012 at 12:19 pm
This makes me nervous. I gave myself a lot of time for the stages of my project in my timeline, but I have yet to actually start much other than my research. I should be starting production on my project by the end of next week. I hope you get your newsletter figured out, have you ever tried making a PDF with editable fields for you client to use as far as variable data goes? I don’t know if that is what you are looking for but it might be worth looking into.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
In the past I’ve created my main newsletter artwork in Indesign and then brought it into word as artwork and created a word template for the client to use. You can set up your columns and basic layout with text boxes and image boxes in the template and then the client does a save as every time they produce a new newsletter. It’s cumbersome, but it is one work around that might work. Good luck!
February 26th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I would love to know how you went about this project once you figured everything out. My client was interested in a newsletter template for their use this summer. However, as of now I am still working on their initial branding needs.