News Stories

As a group we decided that we would all have a large part in the content of the website.  As we all have a feature to write it was decided we would also write some news stories and reviews.

As we intended to go live in todays lesson I decided a few weeks ago that I would write a couple of news stories which would be ready for when we went live.

As we already had our site template it was mainly just a case of putting the news stories on the dreamweaver template and making them aesthetically pleasing, then linking them back to our Index page.

My first news story was about Weydon School; I found this story when reading The Farnham Herald and got my quotes from the councillor's blog. I was able to import my text and the picture of Weydon School easily and then linked it to our Index page.

My next news story was about the East Street development.  I wanted the design of this page to look slightly different from the other news story.  Although we wanted the news pages to be quite simple I also did not want them to look identical to each other.  I decided a good way around this was to wrap the text around the picture.

This was more difficult than I had anticipated.  There was not a tool which I was able to use in order to wrap the text and was unlike using Fireworks or Indesign.  After a lot of experimenting with Dreamweaver we were able to find an align tool and we found that when we highlighted the text and the picture and pressed align left we were able to get the text next to the picture.

My next problem was that I was unable to indent the text, therefore there was no margin between the text and the picture and it did not look very good.  Although we could not find a way around this problem on Dreamweaver we were able to make an image on fireworks and then import it into Dreamweaver to give the impression of an indent.