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I've decided to make some promotional material for my website. Disregarding the technicalities of the printing, which I've been looking into on other sites, what do people think of the design? I've never done anything other than websites before, is there anything different about print, design wise?
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[This message has been edited by quisja (edited 01-09-2003).]

I had a look at your website and am trying to understand exactly what your question is. You asked "is there anything different about print, design wise?". Well, yes. You can have more variation in your fonts. You have less choice in your colours. You generally have pages that are longer than wide. And the obvious one (after viewing some of the menu structure on your site) you can't have moving objects!

You also have to remember that things have to be higher than 72 dpi. You should have all your images around 300 if you want them to print nice. What program do you plan to lay it all out in? what you use may depend on how much money you plan to spend. If you were only thinking of one or two colors, it will kinda hard to set it all up in photoshop, but if you're doing it in full color it should be okay. The printshop will probably put into Quark for you anyway.

If you're never planning on doing anything over a page or two, Illustrator might be a less expensive alternative to Quark or (insert major Adobe print-layout app, there are three). Just export PDFs for your printer.

But obviously, if you're going to do print seriously, you'll need a page-layout program; I personally prefer Adobe PageMaker 6.5 (haven't gotten around to trying the new ones), but Quark XPress is the industry standard, and I've done probably a dozen times more work in that than in PageMaker.

And yeah, "what's the difference between designing for the web and for print" is a really broad question.