Author Topic: CIT News | The effort goes into making a Publication (Explained)  (Read 1385 times)

Offline Anuran

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Lately some false heat has been thrown at the CIT News moderators both on forum or direct messages, where people stated that the Moderators don't work as a team, and the team members are individually caring out a page, they don't monitor the work by their team member or simply stating the point of having CEO if everyone works individually within a so-called Official Magazine?



Here we will make it clear on how we work as a team, how much time and effort each of the team member put into just a single page over a single publication and the way around for just that one page. Proofs will be provided too from previous publications


Each Start
Each week starts of with Anuran providing a detailed summary of things each page should follow for them to have9 a same design/theme for that week. By "Detailed", I mean collecting fonts to use by searching through many fonts in fontmeme.com, by collecting png vectors (not always the case, since Canva has many premade vectors), by collecting colour hex that match with each other by trying out different colour hex (Selection of Colours is done amongst the Moderators). And if the team members are having a hard time coming up with a matching design to go with the info we provide, we make an example of a page so that everyone can get the border idea and follow the exact theme/design of the example page.
Proofs - https://pilo.ovh/image/hAfm7   https://pilo.ovh/image/hAnwD   https://pilo.ovh/image/hAUUh

Further if common changes are made, we first discuss if it will have effect on other pages, after the discussion, we put it up in announcement (for common change for every page, individual changes are done in their respective channels) - https://pilo.ovh/image/hAiGO (Here u can see that I am asking each page to add a blue border/frame)

Each Page
Making of a page isn't done over 1,2 or 3 nights, it takes the whole week. We, the Moderators make it clear for everyone who when gets accepted to constantly provide their work so that we can evaluate them until the final result. When someone post a work in progress page or a finished page, we constant go over them, pointing out on which part they didn't follow the given details, on which colours, text, frame, boxes, vectors looks out of place, etc and the team work over the commands given.
Proofs - Let's take Interview page as a example
Here Carvajal and Atheer was deciding who to interview, what questions to ask, cutting off a questions, adding a better questions, and finally making the final version of questions to ask - https://pilo.ovh/image/hAlRK    https://pilo.ovh/image/hALNM    https://pilo.ovh/image/hAWDI
Then the Interview team goes Ingame and does the interview and bring screenshots with them - https://pilo.ovh/image/hAboL
Then the team design the page with the provided common details, once they are finished or half finished, they will provide or showcase the page which definitely go over multiple changes. Here you can see that the interview team does many changes after Anuran's and Carvajal's advices and the final version is out. But as you can see Anuran further asks to make graphical changes to the page - https://pilo.ovh/image/hA5zU 
  https://pilo.ovh/image/hA6wC   https://pilo.ovh/image/hAdUG
Remember this is just 1 page and only a small fraction of the chat was shown.

After Publication
The work doesn't stop after the publication since I have to find fonts, vectors, design ideas, templates again for the next week. However this isn't just it, we then look through each of the channel, who worked the hardest, who spend much time in fixing errors, who mostly followed Moderators' orders and then we cast out vote (out of 5) for each of the team member in the hidden channel names PPC Voters under the Admin category. And let me tell you, this is much harder than it looks to go through each page, each member's post, each member's reply to the Moderators, each member's changes that they made etc
Proof https://pilo.ovh/image/hAEN2    and    https://cit.gg/index.php?topic=346514.0
« Last Edit: 14 11, 2019, 03:43:24 pm by Anuran »
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