Desktop Publishing

Effectively designing visual interfaces will reduce the likelihood that users will find your website or software application confusing or difficult to use. Your goal is to make navigation as...

A well designed business card is your introduction to prospective clients. As such, the software you use to make your business cards should be easy to use and flexible enough to let you create a...

Desktop publishing has expanded since the days Pagemaker showed up on the Mac in 1985, both in the quality of the programs and the range of uses. The high-end programs for professional designers...

When publishing a newspaper, you want a logo for your newspaper that has a good balance of artistic merit and professional presentation. Newspaper logos tend to rely primarily on the name of the...

Online and offline software programs make it easy to design and print your own homemade cards, including postcards and greeting cards. You may decide that your card designs are good enough to...

If you go to Avery.com they have tons of templates for all sorts of jobs. There is a section for templates. Copy the template into Office and go from there. A template is the outline of what you...

While many "old school" designers abhor the Internet and what it has done to the graphic-design industry, others welcome the change as they did when the personal computer changed graphic design...

Creating logos for cover art, bands, clubs or a business has never been easier than it is today. You don't need to be a professional graphic artist to come up with your own logo. There are...

A great music CD deserves a great CD cover. Whether you are recording an independent CD and want to design your own cover or you're designing one for another band, combining the right balance of...

A logo is a graphic design representing a company, product, rock band or other entity. A well-designed logo is eye-catching and memorable. Think of the McDonald's golden arches logo or the...

The goal of a letterhead is to identify your company whenever you send out company correspondence. An effective letterhead design should encapsulate your company's personality or capture the...

Updated a word document but the date stamp didn't change? I will show you how to easily do this.

Graphic design is the visual means of communication. It is a creative process that relies on art and technology. When someone designs a poster, letter, business logo, or magazine ad, she is using...

This How-To will teach you how to create, design and implement a design using any graphic design software.

Professional-looking business cards can be created in your own home in minutes, even if you are not a graphic designer. The hardest part might well be choosing your design.

Greeting cards of all types are popular for telling someone special how you feel about them. A greeting card should be expressive, not only with what it says, but on a visual level as well. A good...

A business card is a great way to supply your information to other people. It is designed for a specific person or purpose. There are a few basic elements that every business card should have. You...

Brochure designers are highly sought after in the world of graphics design. You don’t need a college degree to become a brochure designer, just the knowledge and tools to get started. It’s...

A business card is a must-have for anyone doing business: from consultants to part-time work-at-home business people. With Adobe InDesign as your tool, you can make a business card using the best...

One of the most popular and traditional means of making your own business cards is to purchase blank printable business cards at an office-supply store. The business cards can then be designed...

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing program designed by Microsoft for use on its Windows operating system platform. It offers features that enable a user to design various publications,...

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing program first released in 1991. It is a very handy application to have for your personal or business publishing needs. You can use it to easily design...

Whether you are designing a brochure for a paying client or creating a presentation for your employer, finding fonts that will enhance and add interest to your design can be as fast and easy as...

Tee shirts are popular articles of clothing in America and around the world. With myriad witty sayings, creative designs and other eye-catching garnishment, tees come in nearly every imaginable...

Microsoft Publisher is an Office application that just doesn’t seem to be as popular as its sibling Word. But Publisher can help you create publications that you would be proud to show...

The elements of design are essentially the arrangement of items on a page. Whether it's a brochure or a newspaper, some basic tenets of how to place objects remain the same. To learn the elements...

Building a basic website using website design software is simple. Although simple text editors can be used to create websites, this requires knowledge of html coding. Website design software is...

Thanks to desktop publishing programs, graphic designers now can create everything from their own line of greeting cards to banners, calendars and newsletters. Follow these simple guidelines for...

Letterhead gives your letters a professional look. This is particularly important for a company. Letterhead introduces you to people and gives them an image of you. Computers make it easy to...

Special occasion cards get piled away with the rest of the mail when they are in plain envelopes with no special decal or design to separate them from others. Design a special envelope using...

Microsoft Publisher allows a user a large variety of desktop publishing templates. Among the most useful is a designable calendar that can be formatted as basic or customizable based on your...

Invoices, or time billing sheets, are forms that nearly every business needs. Following these steps allows you to customize these documents and publish them from your own desktop with Microsoft...

Webpage design is easier than you would think; however, first time web authors may find designing a webpage to be a daunting task. Fortunately, with the help of software and a little bit of...