Postcards: Enabling a Digital Reality

Written by Maricon Williams


Withrepparttar birth of e-postcards, it shrinksrepparttar 107391 different States inrepparttar 107392 world into a ‘global village’. Everyone is like neighbors. When we feel like giving an inspirational postcard to somebody we can do it with just a flick of a finger. When a friend needs spiritual assistance, an spiritual postcard is just a mouse click away.

If I am to describerepparttar 107393 latest technology, I will say it is onrepparttar 107394 ‘bleeding edge’ – a streak which separates fantasy from reality. This is where we drawrepparttar 107395 line. The populace inrepparttar 107396 past milieu may find this impossible during their time but now we’re enjoyingrepparttar 107397 technology far less than they did before.

Before, it takes forever to have a mail delivered to you. There are cases when you most likely to have it onrepparttar 107398 day ofrepparttar 107399 occasion but twilight broke withoutrepparttar 107400 anticipated delivery… A lot of mail missesrepparttar 107401 target date. Some missesrepparttar 107402 target person. It happens whenrepparttar 107403 mail was sent to other person withrepparttar 107404 same name. Either way it’s frustrating! The level of eagerness and excitement is different when you have it atrepparttar 107405 right moment in time.

Postcards answered most ofrepparttar 107406 mailing problems. Communication – both in respect with information giving and reaction torepparttar 107407 information experienced quantum leaps. We must embracerepparttar 107408 leaps forrepparttar 107409 improvement of human performance technology. With this new technology we developed social consciousness. We get acquainted with people from different race, color and creed. We get to understand what they’re going through, how they feel and what they feel about us. Good thing with it isrepparttar 107410 confinement of interaction with more people simultaneously.

Lay out Tips

Written by Carla Ballatan


Effective Lay-outing for Newsletters

If you’re thinking that plotting a plan for something as simple as a newsletter is very elementary then you’re dead wrong. It takes more than just your basic ABC’s to create a truly effective newsletter that can stir a response from your target readers.

The making of an effective newsletter takes careful planning. Writing, designing and printing a piece would take time and effort since these can’t be done in an instant. But your effort may all be put to waste if you do not have an appealing layout. Mind you, some readers are very particular withrepparttar layout presentation in order to get them interested in browsing on.

Newsletters may be judged by content design and layout. No matter how good your content may be, if your layout is not appealing enough forrepparttar 107390 reader, they might not look on another moment. Everyone is not born withrepparttar 107391 talent of creative, high quality layouts that are pleasing torepparttar 107392 eye. But there are several important and basic things to know in order to improve your newsletter layout.

Keep it simple but eye-catching. Use basic but noticeable graphics. PC Software and hardware may be utilized to achieve a desired effect that will not border into hopeless complicated graphics. You can create and derive graphics from a variety of programs like Illustrator, Photoshop and others. You can get some stock illustrations from Dynamic Graphics and subscribe to two monthly services: Electronic Clipper and Designer’s Club. Regarding stock photos you can get very good ones from Photodisc and Digital Stock. For better assistance in your newsletter layouts, Pagemaker may be used, while for small, fancy design projects, use QuarkXpress.

Have visually appealing texts. Whenever possible, break articles up by using subheads or by separating self-contained portions of articles into sidebars. But do not succumb torepparttar 107393 temptation nowadays of screening back clipart behindrepparttar 107394 text. You may fancy thatrepparttar 107395 users would get interested by this complex artistic display. But, this style would make for uncomfortable reading. And don’t think this adds torepparttar 107396 visual value of your newsletter…More often than not, it adds torepparttar 107397 readers’ disgust.

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