There are a lot of excellent methods to gaining attention to important articles. Some of them have been hinted at in prior blogs, including graphics, special characters, and adding color. There is one method that seems to vex many editors (and with good reason!) and this is adding watermarks.
Watermarks are the graphics that show lightly [...]

Most of my editors here at LPi use Microsoft Publisher. Publisher is a very easy to use, user friendly desktop publishing program offered at no charge with some of the Office installations. However, I have a segment of editors (and they are slowly growing) that have discovered Adobe InDesign. I make no attempt to hide [...]

I was sitting with an editor the other week and we were talking about design and format. She wanted some feedback on her latest ideas for making her bulletin articles and headings pop.
After looking through her bulletin, knowing what it used to look like, I told her how well I liked the overall design. Smiling [...]