Free Video Podcasts about InDesign at AskMOGO
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 creating straddle heads, developed by Dave Saunders. Straddle heads are headings that span across two or more columns of text in a single, multi-column text frame.
That video is part of the AskMOGO.com site — a place where people can sign up and send in questions. It’s free to sign up, and there will be more and more cool stuff there for registered members.
I did another one a month or so ago on how to add an “end of story bullet” at the end of a bunch of stories at the same time. I used a relatively simple (though weird) GREP feature to pull it off. We’re posting askmogo podcasts by a number of other great presenters, too, including Brian Wood, Sandee Cohen, and Ted LoCascio.
There’s another InDesign-related podcast section at MOGO, specifically for The InDesign Conference. There are still only a few videos there, including a couple from co-conspirator Mordy Golding, but we expect to post more in the months to come (including live tips & tricks from The InDesign Conference in Miami).
We will also be posting more video podcasts here at indesignsecrets.com soon, but the more the merrier — enjoy the MOGO podcasts, sign up with a free membership while you’re there, and soak it all in. As I always like to say, the more you know about InDesign, the more fun it is!
Cool, registered and all, looked at some video and it was great. Looks like it is a fantastic resource.
The MOGO place looks useful, I’ll check up on it now and then.
Regarding your MOGO workaround tip for a column-straddling headline, involving a single table cell and whatnot, why not just make a same-width frame with your headline, give it a Text Wrap, and paste it into the multi-column frame as an inline object? That works fine for me, it involves almost zero effort — and so at present I just don’t see the need for your cell-based workaround method. Care to elaborate on what, if any, advantages there are to your approach and any possible problems with mine?
Slight addition: by “Inline Object” it turns out I really meant “Above Line” in the Anchored Object Options — for the “Inline” setting makes it impossible to get the column lines to all adhere to the baseline grid, as the insertion point for the text object messes, it seems, with that. Feel free to elaborate, David! (I still stand by that your cell-approach to column-straddling is needlessly Rube Goldbergian.)
The cell-based approach predates the above line option for anchored objects.
It also has the benefit of keeping all the text in a single story. But I’ll be the first to agree that it is Rube Goldbergian.
Dave
ok
BTW, David—what does MOGO MEAN?
You know, we’ve had some discussions about what MOGO could mean, but it just comes down to, “We liked the name.”