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ank \ord shows u how to avoid ows in your dverts nybody con lay out an ad that consists of a ful-page picture overlaid with four lines of text telling the reader to contact blandibloh on this freephone number, those you see in the Sunday supplements, but ads, particularly in Amigo Computing, aren't that They °croon) products , hove to a skeptical, but targeted, audience As tever, o price is of paramount performance a lot of blurb about the produci is usually s e l l ecessory, unless, of course, it is a brand new of a kit that no-one has seen before or it's a bit tenc l and a deserves r g a word or two of explanan. e In fact, we should be able to break down ertising n uin Amiga m Computing into three distinct odes - those that have hundreds of products b e r sel, like gomes mail order houses or PD aries, those that hove between 10 and 50 Kis to sell, like most of our advertisers, and s that only need to plug one or two items like Gordon Harwood ad for Pro•Grab. Is the first instance, you can't really be too cy with your layout, particularly if it distracts eye from searching through the list of items for that matches your customers requirements should probably end up with a column format the information, with boxes at the top and batof the page For the name of the company and ering information. It's a bit tricky to comment er on these sort of ads as there is little room Fr design elements, but make sure the reader n scan across easily from the title to the price, er by adding alternating coloured bars or by Ming a line of dots across (PageStream 3 can this automaticaly), and perhaps new items or ecial offers can be flogged with a different t mein, be boomed se emote • hoe Nom bo •lma* moon wee tabe rtooton beabdise the issone d beak bow =restre Moo be a tote how tut Iwh e t stmeoltso oto el a W O Lam Isms eim• ddi• ed mE N eto• • • • • -.A nn- 1A M* noir onobE nmodnin• id 1.• .• . . . d e . . . 0 O n . , pm m a ble6o an.midoo, • • More a ppe a ling to the e ye is this a d • with le ss te xt a nd more m white spa ce o d o o • o d d o n o o k . i m •••••••••••• O.* an•••••• 04004 • • • • 00. no• • • • • • • • idn idimaiN nw S ido• deld =Wood • • • • • • mimnid mmodoomomdpeddoOddmik Minion • kle• di • • • • • • • • • . * . • t•Ott•t•t womb, mow. • ItOttintt •t•ttttt,s ott Am.*. t.t.ttto. 00 O n* edam Mai 41234 HI 11 , Psi anti le gel 01 111•111111,' Too cra mpe d, too much text. Not the hest wa y to la y out an advert 11EL_ nmeddon .1 • MI to^. oh ' -al= b e atoll e.:11. to eases .1ustul wo o e d sota ...set ess text bens est esso tsest asesseeedlb boltosablesete do et the Not. Masa me me bleb Pb. Napoleon os the woe ogee , Owle aoos ts.. looted= hoe I woad need tab. Welsh • • nose pate om.smat ba• Md. 111.061N A eeed to 'boos UP .0 Moen ssettose eetsoseosssest . IMO AMIGA COMPUTING FEBRUARY 1996 The art of advertising The pichoo ought to be looms. OS the foru% of the ad ve rt Pee ette toil ;aced to read their way throuch that moss of test It is too smog againsi a cluttered bodtoround arid the t column is far too wide Pr be comfortably rood II,. logo I nke enough bet w•o* If the ad Is en o richt - ha.e will be stock rigto el the spine d of the moomine p a g e ? i t stettoessoomeets dr a Maddi• • • • • • • • • 1 11111111W , . 1 colour or a bolder typeface. The third example. single item ads, are the ones with the most design potential. You can do practically anything and sometimes this freedom can be disconcerting. The most important thing is to avoid the 'boxy' look that a lot of adverts produced on the Amigo achieve effortlessly. If you are only advertising one product, you can afford to spend the time and effort in order to make your ad look a bit spedal. Beware of using too many colours or typestyles. I know it has been said before, but it is a basic rule of layout that you shouldn't make your design too busy . There are ads in Amigo Computing (I won't mention any names] that are incredibly hord to garner any information from because they have colours running riot over the layout and text that is too hard to read. This is not the approach to take. First of all, sit back with a cup of tea or a whisky and plan out your page lor spread) on a piece of paper, just sketching in where you want things to go. Make a list of items that you want on the page, phone and fax numbers, e -price information, delivery detoils and so on. If moil you take credit cards, find the relevant images for those you accept and if you can't find any, try the addresses, magazine your od will appear in - they will almost certainly have some. Of course, if you ore producing the magazine your ad will appear in, then you'll just have to draw some for yourself in DPaint or, preferably, ProDrow . Bear in mind the differences between mono and colour artwork il you are producing on ad that will 1 1 1 he layout Is yore um - In The olemenn sp o o l gare el logransed together CM Sher* F imettlident space rbehomen the headlines cod a, the body lest Even If you :t do rend eill the way through dthe test, where Is the o prks poet? It dmaid be Inessnaly obviout alarm with o compormy phone d number o b v i o u s l y The ordettea totorrocelon mock lobe boner presented. Corned numbers need to be Inner and a simple form showing costs should be included appear in someone 1 else's magazine, and make sure you speak to the magazines art department wel in advance about deadlines if you propose to send them art Amigo DIP file for output Most nag. ozines have never heard of ProPage or PageStream, so will be suspicious of joking on a file From one of these packages. The problems continue For the Amigo DIP'er as neither ProPage nor PageStream produce files that are even remotely compatible with OuarkXPress or PogeMaker. Probably your best bet if you are dealing with a large magazine is to lay out your ad as you want it and then send the pictures. logos, etc. to the magazine along with a printout 'preferably in colour' of your ad for the art deportment to work from ond lay out in the DIP package of their choice. Well continue with some of the themes that can be used for your adverts next month and go into more depth on the topic, but until then, be cool PAGE STREAM PROGRESS Not much this month. A haven t heard from Soft-Logik for a while and there's been no news on 3.0i, so J can only assume that no news is good news and they are busy beavering away on it even as I write this month's column. More news as soon as I get it. -
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