Document design is the field concerned with creating texts, that is books, pamphlets, posters and others that integrate words and pictures in ways that help people to achieve their specific goals for using texts at home, school, or work.
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Aside from alignment and grouping, elements can be linked using rhythm: a regular or irregular repetition of common stylistic features.
Hunt, Ben. Web Design From Scratch (2005). Design>Web Design>Document Design
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This page is dedicated to the Adobe FrameMaker software. It includes many suggestions for customizing FrameMaker as well as a guide that my department used for converting thousands of pages from Word to FrameMaker.
Henkel, Rick. Docspages (2000). Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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The Right and Wrong of Quark and Adobe Strategies
What distinguishes the underlying strategies of Adobe InDesign from QuarkXPress is the absence or presence of a content management system (CMS). And each company asserts that it’s following the less-traveled road. The problem is they’re both taking roads most traveled because of their respective stances towards integrated content management systems, and I’ll show you how after looking at their respective strategies.
Kuhnen, Eric. Content Wrangler, The (2008). Articles>Document Design>Software>Content Management
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Not in the mood for smooth? Consider going rustic with your paper and design.
Sidles, Constance J. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Paper
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PageMaker's paragraph rules feature lets you attach lines to paragraphs. So what? Watch this ...
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
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Saddle Binding of Digital Documents 
Binding method is frequently dictated by the thickness of the piece. Saddle stitching provides a fast and cost-effective way to bind booklets, brochures and catalogs.
Copresco (2001). Articles>Document Design>Finishing>Binding
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Save Time With Xpress Design: Style Sheets With QuarkXPress
Consistency is one of the principles that designer must follow. Style Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manaully the same type of formatting over and over again thrughout the document. Let me give you an example. You are designing a magazine promoting a certain item. You want to have all of your titles with a certain font, a certain size and a certain colour. You can record all of these information in a Style Sheet and then apply them to each title with a click. Now, let's say that you decide that the titles are two small and they all have to be made 4 points bigger. Well, you just go to your Style Sheet and modify the size of your font there and all of the parts of text with that Style Sheet will change in one go. This tutorial is for users of QuarkXPress 5 and 6. If you want to know how to create Style Sheets in QuarkXPress 4 follow the instructions for QuarkXPress version 5.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
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Scientific Documentation: Learning from Journal Articles
Suggests that writers of technical manuals could learn a thing or two about usability from the consistent form of scientific journal articles.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. Intercom (2004). Articles>Document Design>Scientific Communication
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An in-depth guide to working with spot colors in Photoshop.
Amladi, Rita and Erik Gibson. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color
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Seeing and Using Theories for Design
In recent years, the subject of research has attracted much attention within the field of design. In this discussion, suggestion has been made about the importance of descriptive/explanatory theory for the practice of design. Given that design is prescriptive by nature, between description and prescription, there is a gap. The gap suggests that the function and value of theory in design practice and thus its evaluation require further examination, clarification and demonstration. The practical value of theory in scientific inquiry is unquestionable. Theory is often referred as the foundation of sciences. Since the immediate goal of scientific practice is different from that of design practice, can the same be said about theory for design? Taking a perspective of a designer, my starting point is that theory, like any information, needs to be brought to life by our way of seeing and using it. Through reflecting on how I have evaluated and used developmental theories for a conceptual design of HIV prevention communication. I will bring up the issue of user in theory evaluation, attempt to demonstrate theory is (made) useful (by)/to designing and put into perspective the value of descriptive/explanatory theory to designing.
Chow, Rosan. University of Alberta (2003). Design>Document Design>Theory>Visual Rhetoric
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It's not hard to persuade a designer that color matters. But persuading Fortune 500 companies? You might be surprised. Color consultant Leatrice Eiseman has carved out a major career in helping companies 'make correct choices in colors that sell.'
Eiseman, Leatrice. Design, Typography and Graphics (2006). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design>Color
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Set Up Records For a Smooth Merger
Instantly generate documents, such as mailing labels, form letters, or envelopes, with the new data merge feature in Adobe® PageMaker®. Using data from spreadsheets, databases, or text editors, you can merge multiple records into one publication. These steps explain how to prepare records so that they merge flawlessly in your publication.
Adobe (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker
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Seven Habits for Highly Successful Documents
To assure that your job flows smoothly through the printing shop without a glitch, this document presents seven preparation habits for highly successful documents.
Copresco (2001). Articles>Document Design>Prepress
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SGML Document Structuring: Implementing Document Analysis
SGML (ISO 8879) provides organizations a standard for structuring and managing electronic information independent of software and hardware restrictions. Its premise is that all documents have a logical structure that can be represented with symbols. Using these symbols, SGML identifies a document’s elements and their interrelation slips. SGML separates format from content, allowing masses of information to be logically stored and easily retrieved. Data from one document marked with SGML tags can be used to create everything from brochures to reference manuals. This workshop emphasizes SGML document analysis and its impact on technical communicators.
Coggin, William O., Leslie K. Gasser and Beth A. Williams. STC Proceedings (1996). Articles>Document Design>SGML
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'Going against the grain' is more than a cliché when you're weighing the merits of one paper characteristic over another. Learn how paper's grain direction affects the finish of your jobs.
Sidles, Constance J. Adobe Magazine (2004). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Paper
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Showcase Images with Nested Frames
Circle meets square as Sandee Cohen nests frames inside frames to accentuate images in Adobe InDesign.
Cohen, Sandee. Adobe (2004). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design
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Simplify Your Life With Templates
Adobe® PageMaker® 7.0 includes more than 300 templates. Just open the Templates palette, select a category, choose a template, replace the placeholders with your content, and you’re done. You’ll get professional-looking results every time without fussing over special layouts or worrying about choosing appropriate fonts.
Adobe (2003). Design>Publishing>Document Design>Adobe PageMaker
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Single-Sheet 16-Page Gift Book
Everyone loves photos, and by using a little creativity and a little planning you can make a superb photo album.
Showker, Fred. Design, Typography and Graphics (2005). Design>Document Design>Prepress
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Single-Sourcing from FrameMaker 5.5.6 to ForeHelp Premier 2000
This article centers on a single-source documentation process that involves authoring structured, chunked documentation in Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6 and converting it 'just in time' to a WinHelp online help system using ForeHelp Premier 2000.
Snavely, Deborah. InFrame (2000). Articles>Software>Document Design>Adobe FrameMaker
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Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation
Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation, so it's important that it communicates as effectively as possible. Good organization, complete information, and clear writing are, of course, key to the success of any design document, but there are some other, less-obvious techniques you can use to make your documents more readable and understandable. Here are a few of them.
Olshavsky, Ryan. Boxes and Arrows (2003). Articles>Documentation>Document Design
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Small Scale, Big Impact: Creating an Employee Newsletter
Every few weeks we receive a flyer about a 'seminar' or a 'workshop' on newsletters -- now to write them, how to design them, how to produce them, how to improve them. Although we haven’t actually attended any of these seminars, they travel to many major cities, and the list of topics covered and the testimonials printed in the flyers are impressive. This phenomenon of the successful traveling newsletter seminar suggests that A) lots of people (hence organizations) are interested in creating or improving newsletters, and B) there’s lots to be learned about newsletters.
Anderson, Pamela A., Sally Nereson, and Dorothy J. Wiemann. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Document Design>Publishing>Newsletters
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One of the most irritating typographic faux pas is the use of straight quotation marks (also called ‘dumb’ quotes) instead of true typographic quotation marks (‘smart’ or ‘curly’ quotes). How did this dumb-versus-smart muddle begin? Blame the engineers: the standard keyboard layout (which was not created by typographers!) has straight quotes in place of real quotes. As designers, it’s our job to use our ‘smarts’ to work around this all-too-common problem.
Strizver, Ilene. Upper and lowercase Magazine (2002). Design>Typography>Document Design
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I admit that my intelligence is easily insulted. It’s probably because I’ve got so little of it left – raising a child, running a business, and working in the software industry take their toll, after all – that I’ve got to defend it with the ferocity of a rabid fruit bat. But, as I review the state of the art in desktop publishing software, I’m left with one nagging question: Just exactly how dumb do these guys think I am?
Kvern, Olav Martin. Upper and lowercase Magazine (1999). Articles>Software>Document Design
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Sony HDV HC1 High-Definition Camcorder
Introduces the high-definition Sony HDV-HC1 digital camcorder for technical/professional communication practice.
Karlin, Erin and Amy Tehan. Studio for New Media (2006). Articles>Document Design>Video>High Definition
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The Successes and Challenges of Visual Language
Discusses efforts to create manuals that rely entirely on pictures for communication.
Hofmann, Patrick. Intercom (2004). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design>Visual Rhetoric
