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It has been quiet here for too long - it is really time to get moving again. A lot of the quietness I have to blame on my holiday, which by the way was great. 3 weeks off work, relaxing with family and friends. And our daughter really have grown a lot the last couple of months, and as late as today she began walking on her own - in other words, she is now aware she is capable of walking, earlier she didn't dare to walk unless she didn't think about it.

During the holidays I had the chance of taking wedding photos of friends of mine, and I would like to just share a few of the photos here. The rest can be found on Flickr.

Multi-exposure shot of the happy couple.

Rock star bride.

This post, I am sorry, is just an update on the situation - no real InDesign goodies for you right now. Please contact me if you have ideas for topics, and I will gladly write about it. But as an InDesign related event, I can share that i took the Adobe Certified Expert InDesign CS4 exam last week and passed. And I must admit the test was harder than expected, but luckily I passed it anyways.

Another slightly InDesign related news, is that we finished our Design & Production bible at 2Krogh. The book is a joint project with Jongbloed and is a book describing every step in Bible production from design through typesetting, prepress, paper selection, printing and binding to logistics, distribution and warehousing.

11 of our Bible and Hymnbooks design are printed on 8 different paper qualities, weights and tints from Bolloré, with different secondary PMS colours. This is really a unique book, and I can't wait to show it off.

Currently the book is not for sale, but as soon as it is, if it will be, I will make sure to let you know.

Design & Production bible.

Design & Production bible.

Design & Production bible.

I would like to introduce a new series of blog posts on InDesigning.net - "Ask InDesigning.net". I love to help people out with their frustrations, problems, issues or whatever with InDesign, often doing this on Twitter anyways, so why not collect some of the most common problems and answer them in a series of articles here on the blog?

If you have any general questions, e.g. "How can I handle multiple indexes?", "What is the easiest way of formatting a table" or "How can I solve this GREP search specific issue?", I will try to answer them as good as I can, and if I stumble across things I cannot answer I will try to research it or get another person to write the answer instead.

If you have any questions, please comment it on the blog, contact me or tweet me.

With more regular followers on the blog I think it is time to throw out a request for wishes of new guides, features and scripts.

Do you have any specific requests or ideas for new topics or series of articles, I would really like to hear them. I can't promise I'll write about everything, but I will prioritise user requests.

Also, I would like to hear what content you prefer prioritised on the blog, guides on different user levels, scripts, screencasts etc. - be sure to add further comments below.

Otherwise, I am always open to suggestions for new things, guest posts etc. Just comment here or contact me on Twitter.

I would love to do a lot of small guides and screencasts on the site, and I can continue picking up on random topics, XML, GREP, styling, AppleScripting etc., but I would prefer to write about whatever you would like to learn more about.

So my question is, what topics would you like covered on the blog? Do you have any specific questions, or requests for workarounds? Please share in the comments or @Silkjaer me on Twitter.

Otherwise I am also open for guest posts, so if you have a hot InDesign topic you would like to share, get in touch and we can talk about it.

After a few posts on the back I am also very excited to hear what you think of the site so far!

I have been considering this for a long time, starting up something InDesign related, ended up with this. A blog with thoughts, guides and screencasts on and about InDesign.

It is going to be a huge challenge for me, especially the screencast part, which I have never tried to do before, but I would love to give it a shot. I know I have a lot of InDesign knowledge from many years of work with the application, that I should be able to teach others through written guides and screencasts.

The thoughts part of the blog will contain more observative blog posts. For instance I often come across features I find lacking in InDesign as I daily work with it, which could result in a blog post where I share the feature idea along with arguments on how and why.

My background

Since this is the first post on the blog, and some people might ask to it, I will share a little about my background as a graphic designer.

After a couple of years working freelance with a little print and web design, I started on an education as a a "media graphic designer" in Aarhus, which I finished in 2008. During the education I was (and still am) employed at a small design agency, 2Krogh, where we are specialized in book design, especially Bibles and hymn books.

We are currently working on a promotion book on Bible design and production, here is a few teasers from that project, which you can also read more about here:

Two pages from a dutch Bible containing the psalms.

Last two pages of a thin print section showing different black and spot colour tints.

I hope you will enjoy the blog!