Indesign Secrets

Many of you know that I’m also involved with MOGO media (I’m the editorial director, so I help organize content and speakers for the various MOGO events, including The InDesign Conference). But I’m also helping them with a series of podcasts, including videocasts on InDesign.
For example, I posted a tip based on a technique for […]

Please forgive the self-indulgent announcement, but a number of readers and listeners have asked me when my InDesign CS3 Beyond the Basics video title would be available from Lynda.com. The answer is: Today. I just got the word that it’s live at this Web address.

If you don’t yet have a subscription to Lynda.com and you’re not in the mood to buy the DVD, you’re welcome to watch all 10 hours of the video instruction by signing up for a free one-week subscription at lynda.com/IDsecrets.

The Beyond the Basics title picks up…

Have you seen Michael Murphy’s new place? It’s great!
We’re speaking, of course, about his new online home at TheInDesigner.com. After over a year of being “roomies” with us at InDesignSecrets.com, we agreed with Michael that the best way for him to achieve his professional goals was for him to once again host his blog and […]

OK…Christmas has already come and gone, I know, but it’s still technically the holiday season, and the title of this episode is the title of a Christmas CD project I recently designed. That’s the project I showcase in this episode, in which I demonstrate a holiday grab bag of InDesign goodies including: starting a document […]

Normally, I pick one InDesign feature and build a whole episode around it. However, this is the second anniversary of the podcast, and I wanted to do something different, and demonstrate that combining InDesign features is far more powerful than using them individually. In this episode, I use six different features — Anchored Objects, Frame […]

It’s that little feature we all take for granted, but InDesign’s Text Wrap is a vast improvement over that other page layout application’s Runaround feature. This episode takes an in-depth look at all of InDesign’s Text Wrap options, reveals a few peculiarities to watch out for, and demonstrates the additional options added in CS3.
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Who says data and design are mutually exclusive? Not InDesign, that’s for sure. Under the right circumstances, data-driven layout is the way to go. Unlike XML, which makes designers run from their computers, the Data Merge feature in InDesign is an easy way to accomplish fast, flexible data-driven layout creation and updates. Using a subscriber’s […]

Who wants to see the home videos from my vacation? Wait! Before you run for the exits, let me rephrase that: Who wants to learn about how to add and work with videos in InDesign, create buttons to control them, and export PDFs that will play them? In this episode, you’ll learn how to put […]

How would you like to have all versions of your (or your client’s) logo available in one placed file and never have to worry about re-positioning them in the frame in your layout? In this episode, I share the tip I presented during the closing “tip extravaganza” session at last week’s InDesign Conference in New […]

It’s time to get back to the original mission of the videocast — real-world examples of InDesign in action to help you work better, smarter and faster. In this episode, I take a look at a feature that debuted in CS2: Object Layer Options. Not only does InDesign understand the native Photoshop format, it also […]