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CyberText Consulting: Newsletter/Blog
Lots of hints and tips for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, AuthorIT, etc.; cool URLs; interesting book reviews; pet peeves; and whatever else piques my interest.
Bracey, Rhonda. CyberText Consulting. Resources>TC>Document Design>Blogs
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One of the advantages that print journalists have is that they learn document design on the job. Today, thanks to computers and design packages, design awareness is very high. Even the novice computer user becomes proficient in designing documents within a few days, if not weeks. Usually, templates are available for brochures, reports, books, etc. All you need to do is fill in the contents in the readymade template.
Kamath, Gurudutt R. IT People (2003). Articles>Document Design>Document Design>Visual Rhetoric
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The Design Elements of Medieval Books of Hours 
The commonsense principles of modern document design are direct descendants of the principles used in the Books of Hours, a hybridized religious instruction manual created in the commercial scriptoria of the 13th century. This article analyzes the design of Books of Hours and discusses how these medieval documents fit within the four design criteria (supertextual, extra-textual, intratextual, and intertextual) put forth by Kostelnick and Roberts [1]. The analysis reveals the early user of good document design features as the medieval scriptoria worked to address the audience and task requirements of the Books of Hours.
Webb, Mary and Michael J. Albers. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2001). Design>Document Design>History
#24732
To design for attention -- and then be sure the message is read -- several lessons can be learned from that most mundane of printed material, the newspaper.
Woolf, Gordon. Document Design (2001). Design>Document Design
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When you're working with complex data, a table may be your best option. Often, a logical series of rows and col-umns can communicate more clearly than paragraphs. Adobe® InDesign® 2.0 introduces a robust table feature that makes it easy to line up those rows and columns—and to format them in striking ways. Here we show you how you can make an easy-to-read table while using the graphical power of InDesign to integrate it into the style of your document.
Cole, Tim. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
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Designing Automated Custom Templates as Part of A Global Corporation's Style Guide 
When CH2M HILL staff ignored the Times 12 standard for document production and began inventing their own formats, they often bypassed the company's Publications groups, resulting in client bewilderment and anger. We will orient the audience to how creative thinking and innovative programming made it easy for staff to produce consistently attractive and effectively formatted documents. We also will demonstrate the final Toolset version and supply information about how you can apply the benefits of a Toolset product in your company's environment.
Sippel, Martha K., Brock McFarlane and Deborah Gillespie. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Document Design>Style Guides
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Designing Better Instructional Documents
Demonstrates how principles of print design and visual literacy can improve the usability of course handouts.
Codone, Susan K. Intercom (2004). Articles>Education>Document Design
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Designing Documents with a Word Processor
This tutorial presents a brief overview of how to achieve interesting, effective designs for your pages using the basic features of your word processor. Specifically, it introduces you to important design principles to consider as you design a document and helps you analyze the design of sample documents. Although the design principles presented here apply to both print and online documents, the primary focus is on design strategies for paper documents.
Munger, Roger H. Bedford-St. Martin's (2007). Articles>Document Design>Word Processing
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Designing FrameMaker Templates for Use with WebWorks Publisher Professional
Plan your FrameMaker templates' look for both print and online.
Gallagher, Linda. STC Region 7 Proceedings (2003). Design>Document Design>Single Sourcing>Adobe FrameMaker
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Designing Information-Gathering Forms
Poorly designed information-gathering forms drive up operating costs. Good design depends on a careful analysis of two users: Form-Fillers and Form Readers. Both types ofform user benefit if the form designer follows four principles of overall design. Guidelines for answer sections and user testing can also help designers produce more effective forms. Evaluation of existing forms can lead to successful revision so that costly mistakes can be avoided.
MacNealy, Mary Sue. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Document Design>Forms>Usability
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Designing Text to Flow Around Objects
Wrapping text around objects—from basic shapes or frames to images with clipping paths—can give any publication a unique look and feel. In this tutorial, you’ll learn several ways to work with text wrap in Adobe InDesign® to achieve the look you want.
#26396
Designing Usable Forms: The Three-Layer Model of the Form
Why do people say 'I’m not good with forms' or 'I don’t like forms' when a form is only a piece of paper, or a screen, with some printing on it? There must be something special about forms that inspires these comments.
Jarrett, Caroline. uiGarden (2005). Design>Document Design>Forms
#26468
Desktop Printing with QuarkXPress
Have you ever wondered why, no matter how much time you spend trying to find an option for it in QuarkXPress, you just cannot get that picture to print the way you want it? Be happy, or may be not, because it is not that you are overlooking the right options in the program. The option just does not exist in all versions of QuarkXPress prior to version 6.
Bruno, Elisabetta. About.com. Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress
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A directory of websites about desktop publishing, fonts, services and software.
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Desktop Publishing and Design: Took, Tips and Techniques
The organization of your document in combination with its typographic and graphic elements comprise its design. Good design improves your document's ability to communicate effectively. Novice document designers will want to attend this workshop to learn how to use design to their advantage.
Tucker, Kimberly and Lisa Burke-Marose. STC Proceedings (1996). Design>Document Design>Typography
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Whatever the subject of lists I follow, two basic questions usually come up about every three months. Usually the person posting the question has to make a decision between: Pagemaker or Quark (and often FrameMaker), or Macintosh or PC.
Haugen, Diane. Document Design (2001). Articles>Document Design>Software
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Developing a Document Planning Template
Explains how a document planning template can establish consensus among team members regarding content and layout.
Tremmel, Martina A. Intercom (2004). Articles>Document Design>Document Design>Collaboration
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Each year we like to highlight some of the outstanding print publication samples we've seen and ask ourselves is there opportunity for a do-it-yourself project.
Showker, Fred. Design, Typography and Graphics (2002). Design>Document Design>Marketing
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Setting type means selecting and arranging groups of characters, but not all of those characters have to be part of the alphabet. Dingbats are non-typographic elements that can enhance your work by adding variety and functionality.
Strizver, Ilene. Upper and lowercase Magazine (2003). Design>Typography>Document Design
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Can somebody explain what the process of distilling is -- in simple terms?
#27456
This presentation addresses a low-effort-required solution for users looking to take a step into XML for their technical documentation. The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and its associated public toolkit provide you with the DTDs, stylesheets and other tools you require to make your steps into XML.
Kravogel, Christian and Boris Horner. IDEAlliance (2005). Articles>Document Design>XML>DITA
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This course provides technical communicators with a practical and theoretical overview of document design. We will begin with examinations of document design theories and conventions coming from graphic artists, usability experts, cognitive psychologists, and technical communication scholars, and then critique those theories and conventions as we apply them to the analysis and creation of technical documents. In the process, we will problematize modernist expediency and question long-held assumptions.
Clark, Dave. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2003). Academic>Courses>Document Design
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This course will teach you to * identify and discuss principles of reading comprehension, cognitive psychology, human factors, and graphic design that apply to technical documents * analyze and evaluate the design of existing documents and recommend appropriate revisions * design and test documents for maximum usability
Dragga, Sam. Texas Tech University (2002). Academic>Courses>Document Design>Visual Rhetoric
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Document Design: A Brief Primer
Today's documentation must be designed with information retrieval as its key objective. When information is organized and mapped into a consistent, logical structure that uses retrievability aids such as labels that facilitate scanning, blocks of information, advance organizers for the information, keywords, meaningful indexes, and a hierarchical organization, readers can quickly locate and use the information that they need.
Flanders, Melanie G. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Documentation>Document Design>User Centered Design
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Document Hack (A Technical Writer's Journal): From Acrobat to FrameMaker
FrameMaker is the industry standard for writing book-length documents. It is a powerful program capable of creating books of well over a thousand pages. The learning curve for the program is significant. FrameMaker is a much different animal than Microsoft Word and other word processors.
Hewitt, John. Writer's Resource Center (2004). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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