Friday, 29 January 2016

Contents Page and DPS Guidelines

Contents page guidelines

  • Multiple images
  • If just one image per page, contents should be over 2-3 pages
  • Contents page should reflect your cover stories
  • The largest image should be the cover star
  • Not all contents is on the contents page (majority)
  • weekly- should span over about 60 pages
  • monthly- 140-180 pages
  • divide your contents into sections
  • page number- 6 upwards
  • elements to include: subscriptions offer
  • letter from the editor 
  • magazine branding- colours and logos

DPS guidelines
  • A3 landscape- 300 dpi, RGB
  • weekly- page 40 upwards
  • monthly- page 90-100 upwards
  • big letter at beginning of paragraph- dropped cap or raised cap
  • pull out quote
  • publisher to place in columns and photoshop for graphics and photos
  • columns = no less than 6 words, no more than 12 words per line

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