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
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
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