User blog:Colin687/Daily Prophet Reconstruction

Hey Guys!

Even though I've said I don't want to be in charge of the Prophet anymore doesn't mean I want it to go away. Which is why, I think we should reconstruct it, so it can be better and - well - work.

SoA has come up with the idea of multiple editors, which I think is a fantastic idea. But with that, we'll need more reporters. So, if this ever has any hope of working, there needs to be an appropriate amount of people willing to contribute to it. Plus, I think it could do with a new look, but that might just be me. I have two (sorta) options to how the new look could be (there are sub-options in between for one of them, but ... just look :P ).

Option 1
Having the Prophet look like an authentic, actual, newspaper is kind of difficult. Especially if you're trying to get it to look like an actual issue of the Daily Prophet, with the crazy lettering, amazing loopful gifs, etc.. So, I had the idea of making it look like a news website. Sort of like the way NBC News website does theirs, with a picture, a title, and then when you click on that, it takes you to the story for viewing. Then, new articles could be posted all the time, whenever wanted. Only downside to this would be that it's not like it'd be the actual newpaper, where one issue has multiple issues and stuff.

Option 2
Option 2 is basically what we've already been doing with the Prophet, posting an issue at a given time, with 3-4 articles on it for reading. I have a couple of things I'd like to add to this though. With an average newspaper, there is the story section, sports, obituaries, marriages, events, etc.. I'd like to be able to do things like that with the Prophet. Sure, it'd be a little tricky, but I'm sure something could be worked out. Before I had it at an issue every 2 weeks, but I've seen that's a bit difficult, and would be even more so with more things added, so I think it'd be appropriate to have a new issue every month. More so if there was an expansion.

Comment which option you prefer and why.

I've thought a lot about what sections there would be, and I've narrowed it down to what I think is best, but it doesn't matter what I think, because you all are the ones who will read it. So, I made a few polls, please vote on them, and comment extra sections of the prophet you'd like to see added, or why you disagree with certain ones, etc.:

Here are the sections I've thought of:

Sports Yes No I'm not sure

Obituaries Yes No I'm not sure

Quote Yes No I'm not sure

Hogwarts (a section specifically for Hogwarts events, stories, info, etc. Yes No I'm not sure

Comics Yes No I'm not sure

Advertisements Yes No I'm not sure

Events Yes No I'm not sure

Comment all questions, thoughts, concerns, anything. I want to know what you're thinking :)

 ~ Colin  687