Adobe InDesign Training, For Web

2-day Course

Starting a new document

Setting document specifications and further options 
Saving your document
Organising and managing files 
Panels
Panel options
Preferences
Tools

Navigation

Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout

Creating shapes and lines

Specifying fill and other properties for shapes 
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines

Colour

Swatches panel, creating new colours 
Colour types
Colour settings
Bridge management
Colouring type, fills and borders 
Tints and gradients
Importing colours
Applying colours from other objects

Imagery

Image frames
Image formats for web
Optimisation
Quality issues
Image type, editing and importing
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Borders
Previewing
Options on import
Text wrap
Photoshop export

Text & Typography

Control bar
Text boxes: creating, editing, and properties
Type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Changing leading, tracking and kerning 
Paragraph formatting
Importing, Jabber wocky
Spellchecking
Text column control
Text flow
Find and replace
Things you need to know, when exporting for web
When fonts go missing
Web fonts

Shapes and Objects

Modifying shapes
Converting picture boxes to text boxes and vice versa
Spacing and aligning items
Duplicating objects 
Step & Repeat 
Object Grouping
Locking objects
Alignment

Style Sheets

Character v Paragraph Style Sheets - when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents

Tables

Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties 
Adding images to cells
Resizing, merging, adding or removing row or column cells  
Importing table data from spreadsheets
Creating tables from selected text
Cell inset spacing

Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages  
Master page basics
Rotating
Preview quality
Adding content to the master page
Unlocking content

Interactivity

Choosing the right workspace
Importing XML
Using buttons
Triggers
Hyperlinks
Transitions
Effects
Filters
Editing imported files
Sound
Movies
Button behaviours
Previewing button behaviours
Updating links
When buttons don't work
Movies
Interactive media import
Interactive PDF creation
ePUB – basics