No Nonsense Guides

The No Nonsense Guide series is the mouse that roars. The goal of a good computer book should be to get users using. The tiny, $19.99 No Nonsense guides do just that—march users step-by-step through simple tasks. They're light on chatter—chummy yes, dummy no. Like the covers say, just Click! Digital Cameras, Start! Windows XP, Start! Mac OS X Jaguar, and Create! Photoshop 2 Elements.

Originally created on the Macintosh platform in QuarkXPress, this design was reengineered for paging on PCs using Corel Ventura. It included more than a dozen figure and table elements to handle all layout scenarios: narrow and wide images; anchored and unanchored images and tables; left captions (for right pages), right captions (for left pages), and bottom captions (for wide images), etc.

Such is the work of an Associate Production Architect. Just don’t ask me to put up a drywall or hang a door.