If you cannot afford Pagemaker, Quark, or Indesign, consider learning to use open source, free, software - Scribus. This through video deals with basic introduction and setting preferences.
"The first part of a presentation at the Nagoya International Personal Computer Club on how to avoid bad desktop publishing, both in print and on the web. This part included what is bad desktop publishing and why it should be avoided, and the first two rules to avoid it."
