News Design School LLC and its newspaper design online tutorials are aimed at journalists at small newspapers who want to become better at newspaper design and page layout. Our online design training will help you improve your skills on your schedule and at your own pace. We also offer web page and newspaper layout critiques, including our NewsDesign ReportCard™ for your newspaper or web site, and one-on-one sessions with us as your design coach. Since good design starts with the reporter, we can also act as your writing coach. Finally, our services also include web site and newspaper redesigns, from readership research and reader surveys to the finished product, including design templates for your continued use.
Unlike some of the "big" newspaper design web sites and books, NDS will have much to offer to those who lay out a paper without the benefit of an art director and staff artists. All our effort is aimed at making your job of putting the paper together quicker and easier while making it look better, too.
We are putting together a series of audio and video lessons, including on InDesign specifically for newspaper design. Some very valuable content will be available for free, the rest available to subscribers. The introductory pricing will be amazingly low, so sign up soon!
The NDS Forum will grow into a great place to ask questions, get answers and share tips and techniques. For now, it is open to all; membership in the site is not required. Jump in and let's start chatting. We also have a page-sharing design blog where questions and pages can be shared with the group for critiques and comments. We'll add our $0.04 worth and you add your $0.02. It's ready now, too, so sign in and start pontificating!
The site is still in early stages, as we work on content decisions. Our current course list is still being revised. When it is complete, we are sure it will be a valuable resource for focused staff training. We know the results will make your paper not only better-looking, but simply better.
Meanwhile we are taking any and all suggestions and queries. What would you like to see on the site? What content would be most helpful? Please shoot me an e-mail with your ideas or requests.
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