Ideas for spreadsheets

Northern quarter spread

For my Northern quarter spreadsheet i want one side to be about the History and the other side to be about were to saty in the Northern quarter so tourists who see the article and want to stay somewere were your close to all the attractions like the arndale, the wheel, printworks and obviously the Northern quarter.
. The layout is going to be more creative, im going to play around with the images and try to make a jigsaw type collage of one image, so one image will be split apart but still form one whole image. This technique will attract attention to my target audience and also show creative flair.
. For the Sachas Hotel advert i will be keeping a simple layout but with all relevant info about the hotel itself such as furniture, comfort and appliances in the rooms.

Biking round Greater Manchester

This spreadhseet will be fairly interesting because all the info about biking around Manchester is all from my experiances of riding round and finding areas for me to let loose and free my mind, im sure other people are the same as me with biking and like to explore new areas and the best spots, so doing an article on riding spots in Manchester has focused my writing skills.
. The layout will be visually the same on each page im going to go for the arrow shapes to represent direction and speed, this will also reflect on traffic aswell, some images will be shaped as arrows but mainly the text will be outlined with a dark colour so its more visible.

More ideas for spreadsheet designs

After recieving my feedback it has made me think about the whole layout for my spreadsheet, im more than capable of creating a more attractive/creative layout which would attract the attention of my target audience. For my Northern quarter article im going to include the sachas hotel as accommadation for tourists who want to stay over, this would attract students from other parts of lancashire instead of just greater Manchester, the info im going to be putting into my article is going to be minimum but the relevant info will be there. Im glad i received this feedback because it has give me more self esteem because people know i can do better so i want to up my game and show myself what i can do.

Grid ideas

Grid ideas
For my layout of my spreadsheet i want to keep a simple grid layout due to my spreadsheet being a very simplified idea. I wanted my text next to my images in each spread, each peice of text that is next to an image is talking about that image or that area this makes the article easy on the eyes and easy to read.
This is a good layout for an article but i will be using less images and less text so i can acheive attention from my target audience.

i like the black background but i dont think my images would work with a black background because they are photographs not images like these on this article. Layout is an important factor in designing an article because peoples attention is drawn towards imagery more than text but if the text is next to the image but in a more understandable context than its not too hard to read (easy on the eyes).

This is my basic layout for my doublepage spreadsheet on the left will be the article for the Northern quarter and on the right will be the article for biking round Greater Manchester.

screenshot of my spreadsheet

This is a screenshot of my layout for my double page spread, i have put the relevant information in the article and now i want to look into backgrounds and colours.

Ideas for spreadsheet

I found a fair amount of relevant info about the Northern quarter and i have narrowed it down to the most important details and simplified them so they are not boring to read, i don't want my audience of students to be bored reading loads of info about the industrial revolution.

These are my layout ideas for my double page spreadsheet that i will be using i feel that the top design would be most interesting because everything is laid out neatly, everything is visible and the image will be clear and out of the way of the writing.

Trying to find information about riding round manchester is fair difficult to find on the internet so i wrote this myself from my experiences of riding round greater manchester.

Here is the narrowed down info about the northern quarter, as you can see i have done a quick draft of the early history, the 20th century and the Northern quarter of today.

photos of the Northern quarter

Looking around the Northern quarter there are still signs of the industrial revolution lurking around the corners of buildings and in the back streets were tell tale signs are still there today, this place is a very historical place and these photos show some of that life still here in Manchester.

Afflecks palace, probably the most popular shop in the Northern quarter area because of its many floors and many misceleaneous shops inside.

You can still see that some of the buildings haven't changed such as this. The windows arches are still old fashioned to this day, keeping the history is very important it makes people remember why this place is popular.

I f you can see close enough the building has initials on the top arch which say L.J & C Cooper which must of been the owners of this building at the time it used to be a cotton mill.

Modernisation is still happening with the buildings in this area due to health and safety, some buildings were sadly taken down due to poor materials and weathering.

This building stood out to me very much, just because of the plants growing out of the top and also were the paint has been worn away from weathering.

Luckily i got round the back of one of the buildings which had a gap were i could take a photo of the interior. As you can see a lot of the materials that were used then are in the back, sadly we cant see them but it gives you a feel of what environment these cotton mills were in and the atmosphere these people used to work in.

This was the entrance to the fish market, i love how the statues at the top are kept in good condition and covered with a netting to stop damage from the public.

This Art Neuvou has still been kept up to standard, i love the detail and all the swirls that surround the woman in the middle its almost as if its an entrance to someones home back in the victorian period.

ideas for my articles.

- Northern quarter has alot of important and interesting information which will attract alot of student attention.
- The curry mile is very popular among couples and quiet nights out, i feel that this wouldnt be suitable for students due to not being intersting enough, i want an article that will catch peoples attention with good imagery and good context.
- Manchester shopping centre would attract alot of student attention because of the popularity of shopping in manchester is huge and is continuing to grow as more students are attracted to this area.

Northern quarter
. I need to take photos of the area such as shops, old abandoned mills if possible and also the environment within the area.
. Maybe a photo of a mill could be taken, then a rough illustration using a ballpoint pen of what the mill wouldve looked like in the industrial revolution.
. collage photos would be a good idea for the layout of this article but not too much, i want people to be able to read my article in small chunk instead of just a page of writing, which is very boring seen as though all us students are reading through books of research alot of the time.
. Find images that relate to the historical laidback culture, this would be a good way of communicating to art students. ( Imagery is the evolution in human communication)

Manchester Arndale shopping centre
. I wnat photos of the interior design, not just the small but also the obvious detail.
. Its also coming Christmas soon so what does the arndale have to offer?
. What festive plans does the Arndale have to offer this Christmas?
. Maybe i could shape my information about the arndale into the shape of the arndale, reffering back to the evolution of human communication.
. Also the Arndale is like the Trafford centre of Manchester so maybe i could come up with some sort of entrance to the arndale but more attractive.