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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
I forgot about the ads. We didn't do those in middle school (we just had students submit photos for collages), but they made a bunch of money in the HS yearbooks.
And now that I think about it, our MS yearbooks didn't have a bunch of varying layouts. The HS one, though (because of all the different organizations, etc), required multiple layouts to remain interesting.
ETA: Another thing. When we had sent in all the files for the HS yearbook, there was a month that we had nothing to do. Our advisor had us put together a 'poetry' book, allowing students to submit original pieces. It was another opportunity for us to test our design skills and make some extra money (we printed ~200 and sold them for $5-10 a pop). That's another idea for you.
ETAA: What are you going to be using to design the pages? Like AOII Angel said, we practiced on grid paper, but ended up actually designing the book in Quark. I think Quark and InDesign are two programs that'd work well (depending on your budget).
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I helped with the Yearbook when I was in High School 15 years ago. We used Macs and PageMaker, if I recall correctly. I think it's still around.
I work in the Marketing Dept. and we use InDesign. I have no formal training with InDesign but I manage to do ok. It can be somewhat of a challenge, though. I'm not sure if middle schoolers will catch on quickly...but judging how kids these days are so tech savvy, they might.
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