Clive's Columns

Judging by the responses to Jane Hart's Top Ten Tools, I'm swimming against the tide with my love of huge, complex, expensive desktop tools. But given that I had to sell one of my children into slavery to pay for Adobe Creative Suite 3, I'm damn well going to use it. In a previous post, Back to School, I told you how I was learning to use Illustrator using Adobe's Classroom in a Book. This has been going well and I've nearly completed all my lessons, but I desperately needed some practice working on something real. I also wanted something chunky to get my teeth into using InDesign, the desktop publishing tool that's also contained in the suite. So, I decided to put together a compendium of 33 of the e-learning columns that I wrote for Learning & Development and IT Training magazines between 2003 and 2007. I produced the cover in Illustrator - simple, I know, but you've got to start somewhere - and compiled the document using InDesign. I could have knocked the whole thing up more easily in Word, but that's not the point - more fun documents with lots of images and trendy layouts can follow as my confidence grows and as I can find good ideas to copy.
So, if by any chance you would like a copy of Clive's Columns, you can download it here (PDF, 744K). Because no-one makes money selling content anymore, I've released it with a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivative Works license, which means you can copy it at will, but you must credit me and you can't sell it on!