Today we made the front page of our handbook. It was very exciting because now it really feels that we are starting to get somewhere with the actual handbook. We are doing the handbook in a program called “Adobe Indesign CS3” which is a very advanced program used by the major printing and advertising companies in the world. But if you want the best result you have to use the best software, right?

It was kind of hard to find a picture that was suitable for the front page, because we both wanted a picture that symbolized friendship, but that also showed a country far away from home. But finally we found the perfect picture; a picture of a couple of friends, running around and smiling on a beach. We were also thinking about the headline; we believe that the first impression of the book will be very important. We agreed upon that we should write “the handbook for exchange students” but we wrote the world “the” extra large; with that we want to say that this is the one and only handbook for exchange students. No one else as good as this one is available.

We also started with the layout of the handbook. Planning this wasn’t the easiest thing in the world; we know exactly what we want to include in the book, but we still don’t know how much space each and every part will take. So we made a rough sketch of it, but as we go along and discovers that there’s not enough space we can always rearrange and put in some more pages, so that wont be a problem.   

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