If you’ve visited PageMaster.ca before, you’ll immediately notice that we’ve painted the walls and rearranged the furniture. “Why thank you, we like it too!” If this is your first visit, perhaps the smell of fresh paint gave it away. We love having company, so grab a comfy chair and a warm drink and stay a while.
In addition to our surface renovations, we’ve actually tackled the foundation and added whole new rooms. We think you’ll find the new site more useful. We’re excited to have a platform to share with you the wealth of experience with publishing, art reproduction, marketing and printing we’ve gained over our decade and a half in business. We think you’ll find hospitality here, too. We encourage you to meet our team, both on our staff bio pages and in the posts they will be sharing on our blog.
The Rooms
We’ve decided to arrange the rooms, or pages of this site, in a way that makes sense to you (because who really cares how much sense they make to us). In essence, the navigation and structure of this site boil down into “what we do”, “how we do it” and “who we are”.
The first four menu options tackle the what. We do books, art, publications and printing. We don’t do balloon animals, fitness training, calligraphy, etc (at least, not professionally). These four areas are the things we’ve gotten really good at. They are the things we do because we love to do them. They are the ways we want to partner with you. Visiting any one of those “rooms” will introduce you to the how. Our process can begin at creation, carry through to production and even right on to distribution and marketing.
After those big four, the four we think you’ll be most interested in, we chat a bit about “who we are”. You can discover where PageMaster started, where we’ve been (for instance, did you know this month marks 10 years of on-demand book printing for us?), where we’re headed, and who makes up this elite team of publishing professionals. Think of this perhaps as our living room, where we can sit down, have a coffee and get to know each other a little better.
And then there is the blog. This is the life of the house. This is the part that makes the house a home. This is the dinner conversation and we’d like you to join in.
The House is Buzzing
Blog is a buzzword that can mean many things. It can be anything from a personal diary to a simple list of websites visited (web log, the origin of the term), to a massive collection of helpful tips, resources and stories improving the lives of its readers. We’re aiming at the latter. We’ve got drawers full of publishing tips to share with you in the coming months and years, from the very basics of layout out your first book in Microsoft Word, to transforming that document into a beautiful, published paper or eBook. We’ll talk about what might go on your artist website, or how you can best spread the word about your latest masterpiece. Sometimes we’ll get geeky and explain things like file formats, full-bleeds (it’s not half as gruesome as it sounds) and giclèe prints. We’ll demystify these things for you. We’ll give you peeks behind the secretive “employees only” door. We’ll introduce you to our friends, too. We have countless authors and artists we’d like you to meet.
photo of wall at Granville Island, by Dave Von Bieker
Wet Paint
That wet paint may smell mysteriously good (it’s got nothing on printers ink, mind you), but you’ll still want to watch your new suit. If you bump into any trouble while checking out the new digs, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you about how we can make this house a better home. We’re always renovating!
WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for IT support software.