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I'm redesigning our templates and would like the benefit
of the incredible experience on this list <flatter, flatter>.
I have been asked to design docs for electronic distribution
yet make them printable, rather than the other way around.
I have read a bit of information on this and I have searched
the archives so I know about basic online design. So, what
works? What doesn't? What do you wish you had done
when designing your templates? Success stories? Disasters?
Pitfalls?
The next issue: we will be porting docs between Frame and
Word and back again. I am working on reducing the amount
of transporting, but it WILL be a regular occurrence. Do any
of you have input on the best way to design a template to
transfer between Word and Frame? Same type of questions:
what works? what doesn't?
It's great to read the theories, but I would love some real world
experience.
