Caught Our Eye

Organizing with Sidebars – Using sidebars for secondary coverage is typically an effective method to organize spreads with multiple forms of content. The staff successfully used sidebars throughout their athletics pages to feature seniors within each program. This, along with negative space between the bar and other images, helped separate the seniors from the other images. Additionally, the sidebar also included the “Season at a Glance,” an important module that gave the reader a quick snapshot of the season’s highlights. When content seems to overload the layout, finding ways to organize the information using sidebars will allow the reader to more easily digest the spread.

– written by Brad Cook, adviser, Gresham High School