You’ve probably asked yourself over and over when creating your bulletins and newsletters, “Does that font look ok?”,  “Should I use a different font?”, “Would another font look better?”  I know I certainly have.
There are no absolutes, no right or wrong ways to choose or mix fonts in a design project. However, there are a [...]

Do you save your work? Do you save your work frequently? Saving your work is easy and painless. It guarantees that you won’t lose information.
Save your work! Save your work frequently! Here are some tips for saving:
• Save after you finish typing an article.
• If the article is several paragraphs long, save after typing each paragraph.
• If the [...]

We all have one.
It might be a drawer, or a hall closet, or a garage.  But somewhere in life, we have a pile of “random stuff” we might need.  And every once in awhile, we actually go back to that location, and get the “whatchamacallit” we need to fix the “whosits” over there.
Your publications are [...]

We all have schedules that are hectic and therefore we are always looking for a quicker and easier way to do things.

There are many common shortcuts that work in Windows and virtually all applications. You may be familiar with Ctrl+X for cutting or Ctrl+V for pasting but there are many more shortcuts that [...]

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Everyone from your organization is welcome to attend.
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Contributors.
Ah how we love their help, and dread their missed deadlines.
Managing your contributors is a personal challenge–part science, part art, mostly enthusiasm and effort.  Mangaging their text, on the other hand, is a fairly straightforward process, even though you may recieve multiple formats and styles.
Many contributors will provide you with articles created in [...]

In the days of tall ships, sailors relied on the wind to fill their sails and move their vessels across the ocean. Sometimes the wind gave out and the ship was stuck dead in the water.
Now that summer is in full swing, is your bulletin stuck in the doldrums? Nothing is going on? Does [...]

What do frozen pizza and LPi’s Art and Media Portal have in common?
Not a thing–unless you count the phrase “For best results…”.
Do your graphics look blurry?  Is the text hard to read?  Are there “jagged” edges that looked smooth when you saw it on screen?  Chances are, the graphic was copied and pasted from the [...]