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Loraine Holden, author of Don’t Get Thin, Get Healthy, wanted the ability to add articles on breaking health news to her Web site. Her previous webmaster set up a blog for her, but it wasn’t integrated into her site.

So Loraine asked me to add the blog link to her site. Continue reading “Web site redesign: Golden Green Press”

Last year I got a call from a prospective client regarding a newsletter project. The client, a state agency with six offices throughout California, wanted to consolidate the individual newsletters created at each site into a single newsletter.

First step was a redesign while they searched for an editor. None of the offices had a dedicated editor; the job was assigned to individuals who shoehorned the newsletter work in between their regular duties, and the newsletters of the six offices lacked an overall agency design. Continue reading “InfoNotes newsletter design”

One of my clients sent me a signed copy of her book. I love getting clients’ books — it’s always a pleasure to see how the final printed book turned out.

I worked on the editing, not the design, but the combination of red and black is lovely, isn’t it? And the red with black is repeated in the interior illustrations, with the red and black overprinted to give a sepia brown tone.

One of my clients gave me this poinsettia. I knew I should have taken a picture right away — after three weeks under my care, the poinsettia has lost some of its glow. It was an amazing plant when I first brought it home: the tallest poinsettia I’d ever seen, with brilliant red leaves hiding the stems.

I waited before taking a photo so I could include my client’s book — The Ivaldis Sail to America by Sybil Ann Ivaldi — with it. Next time I won’t wait.

This photo doesn’t do justice to either the plant or the book. The book, by the way, was a real challenge: 393 photos and 6 graphics, printed in color.