I know that many of y'all are better at this sort of thing than me, as I'm neither creative nor graphically oriented. I do a weekly e-newsletter to my volunteers, board members, key donors, key parents and local church staff (around 170 people). I'd love some ideas on how I could make it better without overdoing it, like maybe adding a bit more color, graphics or something. I create it using Microsoft Word, then convert it to a PDF, and would greatly prefer to stick with doing it that way, as I don't really have time to learn a new software package. Here's the latest newsletter:

http://sites.younglife.org/sites/northlake/Shared%20Documents/ylweekly2005_1003.pdf


Other recent ones: http://sites.younglife.org/sites/northlake/Open%20Content%20Pages/YL%20Weekly.aspx

Thanks in advance.

--Ben

It's not bad, really. Two pages, and you don't have a lot of spare room for things (no margins on the first page as it is). Maybe just a more stylized banner, considering the header info already takes up a lot of real estate? You could still include the contact information up there (and the link doesn't come up as a link, fwiw). If size isn't a concern, you might also wish to keep some margins, both around the page and within the content.

Thought though - if you're converting this to PDF, you could probably also create the page in html and print that to PDF. Of course, at that point you have the newsletter online anyway...

(now for my smartass answer - MORE CUTE BLONDE TEACHERS!!!)

(now for my smartass answer - MORE CUTE BLONDE TEACHERS!!!)

W00T! :)

Ideas for sprucing this up?

Christina Adam centerfold.

my work here is done.

Needs more sleeping bag?

SI

Maybe just a more stylized banner, considering the header info already takes up a lot of real estate?That's a really good idea. Do you remember who it was that did those banners for IHOF?

(and the link doesn't come up as a link, fwiw)Yeah, the links only work as links for me in the 7.0 version of Acrobat Viewer. Should they come up as links in earlier versions, and if so, is there another method of creating PDF's that would make links "clickable" for everyone? (I'm currently using Cute PDF.)

If size isn't a concern, you might also wish to keep some margins, both around the page and within the content.For some reason, I'm wanting to keep it to two pages. My thinking there is that people are more likely to read the whole thing if it is "just" two pages, but maybe I'm wrong there.