Using Templates
In desktop publishing, templates are pre-designed documents that we can use to create business cards, brochures, greeting cards, or other desktop documents. Learn how to use them more effectively and find free templates for desktop publishing. Everything About Careers in Design & Publishing
Are you looking for information on salaries for desktop publishing, how to find a desktop publishing job, how to start your own design business, or guidelines for business plans, pricing, using contracts, or paying self-employment taxes? Use this A-Z list to find salary charts, trends, design job databases, sample business plans and contracts, and other desktop publishing career material.
Add Elegance or a Personal Touch with Script Fonts
Learn how to use handwriting or script typefaces more effectively and how to mix and match fonts with graphics for Valentine's, wedding invitations, and other uses. Taxes for a Desktop Publishing Business
Isn't there a saying about death and taxes? Well, whatever the adage it is true that if you own your own business you must deal with taxes. Although paying your personal income tax may be nothing new, dealing with business expenses and deductions, paperwork for business taxes, paying quarterly taxes and sales taxes for businesses can be a little overwhelming at first. Find Your Niche in Desktop Publishing
What kind of work comes to mind when you think of desktop publishing? Brochures? Business cards? Newsletters?
There are dozens more types of design projects that can be created in whole or in part with your computer and desktop publishing and graphics software. I've put those projects into 16 categories or groupings.
8 Ways to Find Clients for Your Desktop Publishing Business
Here are eight tried and true ways for new desktop publishing businesses to get those first clients. Try the advertising, marketing, and promotional methods that work best for you and your design business. Is Freelance Design and Publishing the Right Career for You?
Successful freelancing requires more than just artistic talent or proficiency with software. Explore four myths about working for yourself before taking the plunge into freelance design or starting a desktop publishing business.
PS, Do I Really Need You?
Do you need a postscript printer to do desktop publishing? Explore what postscript is, how it works, and how postscript printers are used in desktop publishing. Everything About Type & Fonts
Are you looking for something dealing with fonts or the art of typography? Use this A-Z list to find font downloads, font management software, typography tutorials, and all other type and fonts material at this site.
Bits and Pieces of Type
Get familiar with tails, ears, counters, bowls, finials, serifs, and other letter parts to help identify fonts. Guide the Way • Set Up Guides in Desktop Publishing Documents
Learn how to use the guide Option of your desktop publishing application. Set margin guides, column guides, and ruler guides to allow you to align text and graphics precisely.
Calendar Projects
Year-round Calendar Project Ideas for making your own calendars for yourself, as gifts, for customers. Create and personalize calendars of all kinds. Drop It Right Here
Basics, adjusting alignment, and other tips for initial capitals or drop caps. Ha Ha Ha
Sometimes ya just gotta let loose and laugh about it. Preparing for Conferences and Seminars
Both the instructor or presenter and the attendee are responsible for the success of any conference -- before, during, and after. Review these pointers so that you can make the most of the next conference, seminar, or workshop you attend.
Getting to Know Your Desktop Publishing Software
Learn how to use your desktop publishing software to save time, money, and frustration.
Color Symbolism
Color is more than a combination of red, green, and blue or cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. It is non-verbal communication. Discover what colors mean, what colors work together, and browse some color palettes in this exploration of color symbolism.
Everything About Desktop Publishing
It would take dozens of pages to list every single page of this site. However, everything — from quick tips to FAQs to profiles to tutorials to featured links — are included on one or more subject directory pages. This multi-page A-Z subject index lists, alphabetically, every subject covered at About Desktop Publishing. Copyfitting Text
Use copyfitting text to get an idea of how many words will fit in a space using the desired font. Reader's Cues: End Signs in Desktop Publishing
Signal the end of articles with graphic accents called end signs. Get tips on designing with end signs.
Spot Colors Expand Color Options in Desktop Publishing
Color adds impact to design. But unless you are just printing to your desktop printiner, printing in color can be expensive. One way to use color and control costs is to use spot colors and then just add black.
Lorem ipsum dolor
The Lorem ipsum text is a series of somewhat nonsense sentences with enough real latin components thrown in just to make it confusing. It is also referred to as placeholder or dummy text. Learn how to use it. Desktop Publishing Goals & Resolutions
Never stop learning. A plan for monthly growth and exploration of desktop publishing and graphic design. Desktop Publishing | First Time Visitors
If this is your first time visiting About Desktop Publishing, the amount of information available here can be overwhelming. Use these starting points to find what you need to know.
Halloween Clip Art & Fonts
Whether you are searching for clip art to spook up your Web page or creepy fonts for your party invitations, we've got the free Halloween goodies you seek. This page will point you to free dripping blood fonts, Halloween dingbat fonts, some free clip art for the Web and for iron-on transfers, and Halloween project ideas. | 