Weekly Update #1
There have been several things accomplished to date. So far the work has leaned
heavily toward administration. Now that things are beginning to get rolling I
hope to be able to get myself more involved in the creative aspects.
The Office Setup:
With the help of James Relunia and Mike Guglieti the office is nearly setup.
Four macs, three PC's three laptop docks and a laser printer have been networked
on a four port hub with firewall capabilities hooked to a switch. Currently
there is only one working ethernet port in the office so all computers are
running through that.
An account has been created on ixwebhosting.com with the URL the-underground.ca
registered. In order to make remote file exchange possibly an FTP drobbox has
been setup.
ftp://web21.ixwebhosting.com
user:
pass:
This has been working fairly well although some staff who are not familiar with
FTP have been having some problems. This FTP will be superceded by a HTML
interface with a "browse/upload" setup. (The next coding project)
All computers are running OpenOffice as a consistent word Processor. The Macs
all have the Adobe CS suite installed. The G5 is also running Flash MX and Final
cut Express.
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The Paper
To date I have managed to find some scattered help although this Thanksgiving
weekend production it is falling a little short. Villie Tsang assisted in
Photoshop work on the last issue and Louis Selmeci has come in to assited in
Layout for issue 02 and 03. Louis was familiar with Quark and Photoshop so I
have been training him on InDesign as we do layout.
The source photography being collected is mostly shot by staff writers and
editors. I have had several people express interest in photography although
actually sending one on assignment with a writer has rarely panned out. As a
result I have also being training several of the writers how to use the cameras
and more importantly the fundamentals of taking good photographs. Some have
improved signifigantly however I have had several staff inform me that they're
still really confused. I plan to put together a 2 hour tutorial ASAP. We are
currently working with around 1200 - 2000 images / issue(The first issue was
around 5000).
The layout with final proofing included has been working out to approximately 40
- 50 hours / issue. Photo Selection and editing is approx. 30 - 40 hours /
issue. This all happens of the Saturday and Sunday and Monday after content is
in on Friday. However, we have managed to streamline the process and are putting
out what I believe to be a tighter paper in less time. This most recent issue
(i03) is probably the most throughly worked design/layout so far.
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The Site
The site has been updated on regular basis. New material has been put up by the
day of release and exclusive online material has been consistently added.
Candace Lee has been working with Cindy Leung for the bulk of the HTML updating.
Some extra photos are also being posted that do not appear in print but I am
trying to get more up.
The frosh gallery php and cgi was written by Mike Guglietti and formatted by
Candace. It allows for the student body to purchase photos with a real time
javascript calculation of their cost.
We are also in the process of putting together contests. We are giving away two
copies of the Canadian Oxford dictionary via a limerick contest and will soon
have a match artist name to song title contest for a 4 CD hip hop box set. We
will soon be getting promo materials from Disney/Pixar for "The Incredibles" so
the contest section will most likely always have something going on. I plan to
begin shortly on the staff login setup. I have also started on a flash intro.
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There's more but this is getting too long.
Future updates will be shorter.
John Loerchner
heavily toward administration. Now that things are beginning to get rolling I
hope to be able to get myself more involved in the creative aspects.
The Office Setup:
With the help of James Relunia and Mike Guglieti the office is nearly setup.
Four macs, three PC's three laptop docks and a laser printer have been networked
on a four port hub with firewall capabilities hooked to a switch. Currently
there is only one working ethernet port in the office so all computers are
running through that.
An account has been created on ixwebhosting.com with the URL the-underground.ca
registered. In order to make remote file exchange possibly an FTP drobbox has
been setup.
ftp://web21.ixwebhosting.com
user:
pass:
This has been working fairly well although some staff who are not familiar with
FTP have been having some problems. This FTP will be superceded by a HTML
interface with a "browse/upload" setup. (The next coding project)
All computers are running OpenOffice as a consistent word Processor. The Macs
all have the Adobe CS suite installed. The G5 is also running Flash MX and Final
cut Express.
------
The Paper
To date I have managed to find some scattered help although this Thanksgiving
weekend production it is falling a little short. Villie Tsang assisted in
Photoshop work on the last issue and Louis Selmeci has come in to assited in
Layout for issue 02 and 03. Louis was familiar with Quark and Photoshop so I
have been training him on InDesign as we do layout.
The source photography being collected is mostly shot by staff writers and
editors. I have had several people express interest in photography although
actually sending one on assignment with a writer has rarely panned out. As a
result I have also being training several of the writers how to use the cameras
and more importantly the fundamentals of taking good photographs. Some have
improved signifigantly however I have had several staff inform me that they're
still really confused. I plan to put together a 2 hour tutorial ASAP. We are
currently working with around 1200 - 2000 images / issue(The first issue was
around 5000).
The layout with final proofing included has been working out to approximately 40
- 50 hours / issue. Photo Selection and editing is approx. 30 - 40 hours /
issue. This all happens of the Saturday and Sunday and Monday after content is
in on Friday. However, we have managed to streamline the process and are putting
out what I believe to be a tighter paper in less time. This most recent issue
(i03) is probably the most throughly worked design/layout so far.
------
The Site
The site has been updated on regular basis. New material has been put up by the
day of release and exclusive online material has been consistently added.
Candace Lee has been working with Cindy Leung for the bulk of the HTML updating.
Some extra photos are also being posted that do not appear in print but I am
trying to get more up.
The frosh gallery php and cgi was written by Mike Guglietti and formatted by
Candace. It allows for the student body to purchase photos with a real time
javascript calculation of their cost.
We are also in the process of putting together contests. We are giving away two
copies of the Canadian Oxford dictionary via a limerick contest and will soon
have a match artist name to song title contest for a 4 CD hip hop box set. We
will soon be getting promo materials from Disney/Pixar for "The Incredibles" so
the contest section will most likely always have something going on. I plan to
begin shortly on the staff login setup. I have also started on a flash intro.
------
There's more but this is getting too long.
Future updates will be shorter.
John Loerchner
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