PageMaker, 'No longer my enemy!'

What a turn around, last week I couldn't work PageMaker but this week I seem to be getting on well with it. I know I don't know everything, in fact this is probably the 4th time I've used it, but I think I finally have the hang of it. It feels good as well to find that I have nearly finished the assignment, as on previous courses at this stage I would probably still be 'messing around'. I know the importance of the coursework I seem to be managing my time better and doing more work in lesson time and have a better chance of doing well in the assignments.

The main task for this week was to complete the Template and the Feedback form designs from the none-digital designs. I found this to be a bit difficult at first but as I've already said practice really does make perfect, or at least I'm on my way. I had one or two problems though, the first being that I couldn't get the images right on the page. I wanted a wooden effect for the background of the website layer but, as I don't know PhotoShop that well, I gave up on the idea when my cloning went a bit funny.

Yesterday we had another visit from Diane, an ex student who now designs quite regularly, she sat down and had a chat with us individually and gave us help and advice. It was interesting talking to someone who had completed the course and done the work and she was really helpful.

Friday's discussion group went okay I got a bit of constructive criticism which has helped me and showed me that I need to adapt my designs. Below is my final screen design, minus the header image, I feel that this is a good achievement to say I have never really used PageMaker.


Self study I guess is just making the changes to the screen design master template and creating the header. After that it will be a case of getting everything ready for next week and to make sure it is all correct.