Not sure how to design your ad? We can help.

D. Kean (front) and Aaron Markwell (back), graphic designers at The Huntsville Times, create eye-catching ads for the print and online editions of the paper.

Your Huntsville Times sales representative can provide you with special grid paper imprinted with column measurements. Designing your advertisement on the correctly sized grid not only permits you to better visualize the design, but it also helps us to give you a better reproduced version on the newspaper page.

If you could use some professional help designing your ads, remember The Huntsville Times provides free layout and typesetting services for all display advertisers.

Standard Broadsheet Measurements

The best reproduction of your ad in The Huntsville Times will be achieved if your ad copy is correctly sized. The image area of our standard (broadsheet) page is 10.958 inches wide by 21 inches deep. The page is divided vertically into six columns. The following table gives the width measurements for columns on a standard broadsheet page.

* Double Truck spans two full pages.

Tabloid Page Measurements

A tabloid page has an image area of 9.875″ wide by 9.663″ deep. The image area on a tabloid page is divided into five columns. The table below gives the precise measurements for columns on a tab page. Modular sizes are sold in sixteenth, eighth, quarter, half, full and double truck.

Classified Page Measurements

Classified ads and classified display ads are built on a standard broadsheet page with an image area 9.88 inches wide by 21 inches deep. The classified page is divided vertically into 6 columns. The precise measurements for classified display ads are show in the table below.