Anyone who wants to do their own book design can spend some very worthwhile time studying books that are old. I mean really old, like going all the way back to the beginning of printed books. Early on, I found these books and the book typography that’s used in...
Lots of action in indie publishing this week, and some great articles for your examination. Of the many, here are my five: Russell Blake on Russell Blake Thank you readers!!! “It is possible to make good money as a self-pubbed author – way more than I’d be...
At some point in the mythic past, soon after blogging itself was invented, some enterprising web designer married the blog to a sidebar. Sidebars—the narrow vertical area next to the text of a blog, on one or both sides of the text column—seem to be...
One of the subscriptions I’ve held onto through a lot of inbox purging over the last year is the feed from Nieman Journalism Labs, a part of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Even though its subjects are often purely journalistic...
If you’re a video gamer, or if you have one in the house, you may be familiar with the phenomenon of “easter eggs.” “A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page,...