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Hav­ing worked as Graph­ics Edi­tor for a local com­mu­nity col­lege a few years back I learned the impor­tance of effec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion. Often, with best inten­tions, edi­tors of var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions can get side­tracked by cut-throat com­pet­i­tive­ness which is the result of cre­at­ing some­thing unique with­out infring­ing on one’s own creativity.

Despite this, the staff that I was for­tu­nate to work with remained open-minded and col­lab­o­ra­tive. I worked as Graph­ics Edi­tor for 3 years and saw my share of tal­ented indi­vid­u­als — among them flu­ent writ­ers, bril­liant artists and tech-savvy lay­out edi­tors. Their tal­ents shined from story to copy edit­ing to print, wherein the staff of lay­out tech­ni­cians (or artists as I referred to them) would uti­lize Quark XPress to lay­out the View­points paper.

On occas­sion we would meet with the Editor-in-Chief, who admit­tedly seemed some­what adverse towards chang­ing the for­mat. His ideals instead remained focused on cre­at­ing an award-winning news­pa­per know­ing that the design and con­tent both led to its success.

Much remains the same for the Inter­net. Infor­ma­tive and intrigu­ing con­tent with a pleas­ant and equally intrigu­ing design cre­ates a suc­cess­ful mar­riage of a well-developed and thought out web site.