Table of Contents

Notice of Rights 2

Notice of Liability 2

Trademarks 2

Production Notes 3

Team credits 3

Getting Started 8

Workspace 8

Mac and Windows 8

Resetting Program Preferences 9

Welcome Users! 10

Welcome to InDesign 10

The Philosophy of InDesign 10

InDesign Help 11

Keyboard Shortcuts 12

Opening PageMaker and QuarkXPress Files 13

Workspace and Panels 14

The InDesign Workspace 14

The Welcome Screen 15

Accessing panels 16

Resizing panels 16

Close and Open panels 17

Working with the Control and Tools panel 19

Using panel menus 21

Understand the Application frame (Mac OS) 22

Working with Workspaces 23

Reset the Workspace 23

Save Your Workspace 23

InDesign Preferences 24

Units Preference 24

Zooming and Navigating 26

Using the Zoom tool 26

Using view commands and the zoom menu 28

Using the Hand tool 28

Creating A Single Page Flyer 30

Working with Guides and Rulers 32

Working with page rulers 32

Working with guides 32

Deleting a Guide 34

2 types of Guides 35

Working with InDesign Frames 36

Getting Text on the Page 36

Adding Text 37

Basic Text Styling 40

The Control panel 40

Formatting text 41

Importing Graphics 53

Placing Images 55

Cropping and Moving Images 57

Resizing Images 59

Image Sizing and Information 61

Create a Placeholder Frame for an Image 63

Fitting Images 64

The Links Panel 68

Image Display Performance 71

Working with Color 73

Stroke and Fill 74

Create a color with the Color panel 74

Saving a color made with the Color panel 77

Create a color with the Swatches panel 78

Edit a Swatch 80

Creating Lines and Applying Strokes 82

Using Transform Operations 83

Working with Effects 85

Aligning Objects 89

Practice adding an effect 90

Finishing Your Document 92

Previewing a document 92

Preflight a Document 93

Package a Document 94

Creating a Multiple Page Newsletter 100

Inserting Pages 102

Navigating between pages 103

Using Master Pages 105

Put objects on the Master page 105

Editing margin guides and columns 108

Applying master pages 109

Override master page items 110

Practice: Edit the margin guides 113

Creating a Masthead 113

Resizing and Flipping Graphics 115

Add Text to the Masthead 117

Applying a drop shadow effect 119

Working with the Line tool 120

Working with Text 124

Multiple Column Text Frames 124

Text Wrap 127

Placing and threading text 129

Using Find/Change to replace content 133

Inset Spacing 135

Live Corner Effects (Rounded Corners) 139

Paragraph Rules 142

Practice: Create Another Sidebar 144

Paragraph Styles 145

Create a paragraph style 145

Editing a Paragraph Style 148

Practice: Create a Paragraph style 150

Practice: Find/Change 153

Working with Automatic lists 155

Practice: editing the bullet list style 159

Span and split columns 160

Inserting a Break Character 162

Practice: Bullet list 163

Create a Numbered List 164

Working with Tabs 166

Tab stops explained 166

Setting Tab Stops 167

Text Wrap around object shape 172

Creating PDFs 176

Adobe PDF presets discussed 177

Practice: Build a Single Page Newsletter 179

Creating a Magazine 180

Working with a Facing Master page 182

Create a Spot color 187

Duplicate a Master page 189

Practice: Creating a spot color 190

Renaming master pages 191

Applying master pages to pages 192

Overriding Master Items 193

Working with Numbering and Section Options 195

Add Pages to the Document 195

Edit the Page Numbering 196

Adding another Section Start 197

Delete a Page 198

Placing and Editing Multiple Graphics 199

Using the Auto–Fit Feature 203

Working with Effects 204

Practice: Applying Effects 211

Working with Multiple Page Sizes 212

Placing Microsoft Word documents 216

Practice: Placing a Word document 220

Applying Master Pages with Layout Adjustment 221

More Image Features 223

Grid Placement 223

Using the Gap tool 225

More text wrap options 227

Practice: Applying Text Wrap options 229

Creating Character and Nested Styles 230

Practice: Create and Apply a Character Style 231

Working with Nested styles 232

Practice: Creating Styles 235

Working with tables 238

Create a table from scratch 238

Modifying a Table 239

Inserting or Deleting Rows and Columns 241

Table Options 242

Formatting text within a table 242

Importing Excel files 244

Create a Header Row 248

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Getting Started 8

What makes a website? 10

Dreamweaver workspace and panels 16

Working with Dreamweaver sites 32

Adding pages to your site 37

Working with XHTML documents 39

Changing the Title of the page 43

Testing your page 43

Adding keywords and other meta tags 44

Cascading Style Sheets 50

Attaching a style sheet to a document 54

Understanding the Property inspector 55

Creating a new style 58

Take a look at what is written in the code 62

Create a style for the paragraphs 66

Practice Creating Tag Styles 67

Editing a Style 69

Using div tags for layout 73

Edit the ID Styling for the Header 77

Create the rest of the Div tags 78

Create Columns Using Floats 84

Working with Margin and Padding 88

Practice: Apply padding to the header 93

Setting a width on and centering your design 94

Practice: Create the footer div 98

Ordering of the styles in the CSS 99

Selecting <div> tags on the page 100

Working with borders 102

Start with a starter page 105

Text formatting using CSS 107

Copy/Paste text 107

Adding a Break 108

Formatting text using the p tag 109

Working with Headings (h1 - h6) 112

Practice: Create and edit a headline 115

Working with Classes 117

Create/apply classes using Property inspector 117

Create/apply classes using CSS Styles panel 119

Working with images 122

Working with an image placeholder 122

Insert an image 126

Image Types 128

Insert images from the Assets panel 130

Resize an image 131

Working with Photoshop files 132

Changing image properties 136

Create and apply a class to an image 139

Practice: Create/apply a class to an image 141

Assigning the clear property 142

Adding a link to an image 144

Creating an Image Map 145

Working with links and anchors 148

Creating an email link 148

Practice: Create another email link 150

Create a text web link 151

Creating and linking to an anchor 153

Editing the appearance of links 155

Practice: Create the a:hover style 158

Duplicating a style 158

Creating different link styles 159

Practice: Create other link styles 163

Using templates to create pages 164

Create a template 164

Define an editable region 165

Creating a page based on a template 167

Editing the template 169

Applying a template to a document 171

Detaching a page from a template 172

Working with lists 173

Creating an unordered list (bullet list) 173

Formatting a list using CSS 180

Creating an ordered list (numbered list) 186

Practice: Styling the ordered list 188

Create a navigation system using Spry 188

Editing the appearance of the Spry menu 197

Working with Tables 203

Insert a table 204

Selecting table elements 206

Edit the table widths, heights, and more 207

Controlling table padding and alignment 215

Creating Forms 218

Create an email text field that validates 224

Create Radio buttons 226

Creating a List/Menu 229

Aligning text in cells 231

Adding a reset and submit button 233

Inserting hidden fields 236

Working with Library items 239

FTP 245

Setup FTP 246

Connecting and sending files 248