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<p>I would recommend that you provide the sized material&nbsp;for each contributor's layout on the size or proportional to the final layout page size. If you want your contributors to provide art and editorial at a particular size, those dimensions should be clearly communicated... I'd even provide the actual pages in their pre-designed state to help communicate this important design constraint. (If you receive submissions and do all of the design work yourself, you won't need to worry about this as much but you WILL be spending a lot more time preparing your contributor's submissions.)</p>

<p>The idea is basically this: Let's say your 'zine is going to be 5.5-inches by 8-inches once it's all folded up and stapled. This book can be made by designing four pages on one piece of letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11 inches); two pages side-by-side on one side of the panel and two pages on the other.<br />
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You can create a letter-sized 'zine by designing your spreads on tabloid-sized sheets. A tabloid sheet,&nbsp;(11 x 17 inches), folds in half into a letter-sized sheet, (8.5 x 11 inches).<br />
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I recommend that you start with a mockup of the 'zine you hope to make. Let's say you're going for a 16-page pamphlet. This can be accomplished by using four panels that are folded, nested,&nbsp;and stapled together. Use blank sheets to make your "model" book and write the number of that page big in the middle of each panel. After you've written the pages on everything, disassemble the mockup and unfold the pages. Now you should see which pages "back up" with which pages... and you can now begin laying out your content knowing which bits are meant to go where.<br />
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One GREAT way to learn is to do it incorrectly a few times. :)<br />
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