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I Want to Do an Ezine! Part 2 by: Terri Seymour When starting your ezine, the first thing you want to do is name it. I would suggest keeping the name as close to your website/business name as possible. If you do not have a website or business yet, use a name you could name your business as well. For example: If you sell gifts/products for you & your home and your business name is Gifts Galore, you could then name your ezine 'Gifts Galore News' or 'Gifts Galore Ezine'. For content, you would include home decorating links, beauty tips and ideas, articles on frugal decorating home remedy recipes, camping tips and resources, whatever pertains to the gifts you are selling. This type of ezine would be great fun to publish! Now to get started with the design and layout of your ezine...the first thing you want to do is to find a good text editor such as Textpad. You can download the free version at http://www.textpad.com. This is what I use and I love it. It is very easy and efficient. A lot of people format their ezine to 60 or 65 characters per line, but I prefer 55. That means that after every 55 letters/numbers/spaces typed, you would press enter and start a new line. You can set the Textpad to do this automatically, but I find it works better to do it manually. Just watch the number at the bottom right of the TextPad screen and hit enter when you get to 55 or 60/65. Create a template for your ezine so each week you can just open up this template and fill in the necessary sections. This will save you lots of time. At the top of the ezine, you want a centered heading with your title, and contact info. It should look like this: Gifts Galore Ezine October '15
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