Adding Interactivity to Your PublicationsĪs you enter the final lecture, you're ready to get a glimpse at the powerful reaches of the InDesign feature set.

Using Document pages, we will learn how to keep track of elements that appear throughout your document. A parent page is a template that holds all the page numbers, footers, headers, and guides. This week, we will learn how to work with parent pages. You'll discover how to link an image to your InDesign document and use controls for text composition, such as hyphenation and justification. How will you manage the various components of a typical page? This week, we will focus on managing text elements, learning how to flow text into frames. Finally, there will be a focus on how to organize data using tables. You'll learn how to apply various attributes to characters and use Paragraph Styles to apply styles to paragraphs. How do you make sense of them all? This week's class tackles the Ultimate Time Saving Tool: Text Styles. Once you get beyond the basics, you'll discover that InDesign is brimming with esoteric tools, commands, and features.

You'll also explore the basic principles of text formatting and learn how to use the Swatches panel to create color schemes. In week two, you'll learn how to enhance your documents (and your workflow) with character, paragraph, and object styles. Pages are fun, but without style, they're pretty bland. You'll begin with a comprehensive tour of InDesign's workspace, and learn how to prepare your first document and load it with text and graphics.

In the first lecture we'll introduce you to InDesign and learn the basics of a workflow that integrates both print and digital publishing. The scope of publishing has transcended the printed page and now spills over to digital media. The term 'publishing' is no longer reserved for printed matter.

Basics of indesign