Syllabus Quandary

I was reading Undine's post about uncoverage and decided to check out the ProfHacker post about it, but I got totally distracted by this post about making interesting syllabi. It's a collection of creative syllabi geared toward getting students to actually read the syllabus. And so now I'm trying to figure out why I don't have something more interesting. I mean, if I don't like reading the monster document (6 pages with all of the university-required material), what hope do my students have? As a student, I always preferred short syllabi with simple policies and a clear schedule. I liked the ones where I could look at the document and immediately find the section I wanted.

I've stopped handing out paper copies, so I can use pretty colors and graphics without blowing the department copy budget. But of course I don't want to overdo it because busy is just as damaging as boring in terms of getting people to read. I still need it to be a single document that I can upload to the university database though, as we are required to do this. Do any of you create non-traditional syllabi? How do you do it?

Husband suggested having tl;dr statements for each section or long policy. I already make my calendar look like an actual calendar because I remember the organization better when it's not presented as a list. Any ideas? (This would be the point where my graphic-designer mother should chime in.)

Oh, and I have a week, so this will be a pilot project, not an awesome undertaking.

Diss update: Meeting with chair went well. Feel better about not making deadline. Wrote something coherent and good before the meeting today.