Brittnay's Blog for "The Digital Past"

When I clicked on “Hello China, Goodbye Nepal”, I expected it to be an article with paragraphs to read.  I was slightly surprised to see that it was written in a simplistic way though very detailed about the journey to China and surrounding places.  I liked how the graphics and text were laid out to form the journal, especially where they had statistics in the beginning and more pictures categorized by vehicles, etc, at the end. I really liked how the journal was formatted by the days that the people traveled, and with each day there was a detailed journal every about the place they had visited.  On the same page, underneath the entry was a list of captions that were to accompany the pictures they took while in that area (which were on the next page).  And underneath the entry and the captions was a very simple picture  of China with the capital pointed out.  As the reader goes through more the journal entries, the format stays the same, but if they were traveling to another pace, on the China map, there would be a line to show that they traveled from ‘x’ city to ‘z’ city.

In the 2005 Annual Report, I wasn’t sure what to expect, whether it was an article or another journal-like format.  I was happy to see that it was laid out the same at the  China one.  I really liked that int he beginning, they had statistics on the right side of the page and they had the category on the left, ex.  on the left is the category: 2005 in Books, and the on right would be four different statistics of books, ex. non fiction., best sellers, etc.  I liked how the pictures were all relevant to the categories, and with the stats, they had pie charts and graphs and everything was of the same color scheme to keep that simple look and somewhat interesting.