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Project Twenty-Five

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Project Twenty-Five lets you try something else with tables and stylesheets. This combination makes a perfect way to format something like a newspaper that will have columns of text with some graphics to liven it up. For this project, you will create a school-based newspaper. It can be humorous or serious (or both), but it needs to stick fairly close to actual facts of what is going on around SRHS.
NOTE: If you decide to be satirical, just remember that students don't actually have all that much freedom of speech. Please steer well clear of slander and libel! (Don't know what those words mean? Look them up HERE.)
NOTE: Simply copying and pasting from the school Web site is not sufficient to get this job done. The school already has a Web site and doesn't need another. Newspapers go out of date pretty quickly, though, so you write us a current one. Just make sure you write news stories. They typically include information about who, what, why, when, and how. This means you need to include names, places, dates, and a little analysis of events, too.

Guidelines: The successful project will offer a clear, readable document formatted to look like a newspaper. It will consist of several pages in which you detail some of the current school news about developments around here--general news, special awards, athletic events, clubs, scholarships, etc. The scrolling announcements will be on so you can get some ideas as to what is going on here. The design should be consistent from section to section, and you should include a navigation section on each page so that readers can easily get to any section from any page.
NOTE: Most of you are not making proper use of the style sheet. Be sure to check HERE for more options. To do this job well, your style sheet will need at least 20 entries, each of which has three or more attributes.

It may be helpful to look around at some models. The following are links to some local online newspapers:
 
The News and Observer
The Daily Tar Heel (UNC)
The Technician (NCSU)
The Chronicle (Duke)
 
NOTE: Notice how these professional sites handle the issue of consistency and ease of navigation.
It will probably be helpful to design your tables with the borders, but then remove them for your final "edition." Almost all of the formatting--the colors, the fonts, the design generally--needs to be done with stylesheets.

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