English 420Y - Business Writing Online

This week wasn’t as productive as last week. We had some communication problems that kind of let everyone in doubt of what was going on. However, we were able to get the necessary work done and successfully complete our second draft of the brochure. Again, my main task for the week was to make sure that our design was correct and that everything was formatted correctly. This proved to be a challenge because we ended up deciding to change the size of our brochure and add another two more panels. This meant that I basically had to reformat the whole brochure to a quad fold format instead of the original tri fold design. Doing this in Word seemed particularly difficult because of the severe limitations of the program. Another problem I faced when working on the brochure was that the new quad fold panels were not as wide as those in the tri fold. After some tricky alterations of font sizes and character spacing I was able to ensure that all information stayed on the same panel. The last problem that was faced was when trying to upload the color version of the brochure. For some technological reason our background was not showing up. After a long time I was finally able to resolve this problem and posted the corrected file as a comment to our post.