Category: Courses OLD FORMAT

  • The Beauty of Xero’s Cloud-Based Accounting Software for SMBs

    The Beauty of Xero’s Cloud-Based Accounting Software for SMBs — How the SaaS Brings Efficiency & Visibility to Business Management [su_note note_color=”#deff96″] TL;DR Xero is a beautiful, friendly, elegantly designed accounting tool built specifically for small businesses (not accountants). It includes all of the financial tools a small business needs. Xero integrates with more than…

  • Custom-Designed or DIY Personal & Professional Sites with Web.com

    DIY or Done-Just-For-You Sites by Web.com — A No-Code, Low-Cost Means to Establishing a Personal or Professional Online Presence [su_note note_color=”#deff96″] TL;DR Web.com offers small, medium, and solopreneur businesses like my sister-in-law an incredibly easy, coding-free way to get online, market their services, and be successful. Using technology so rare and all-but unheard of amongst…

  • Site Owners and Developers Gain Deep Insight Into Visitor Demographics with Quantcast

    Quantcast: How Deep Insights Into Visitor Demographics Help Drive Decisions for Website Owners and App Developers [su_note note_color=”#deff96″] TL;DR Website analytics only tell you what browsers do on your website. They don’t tell you about the people who visit your website. Analytics tell you what device they use and from what country. Quantcast Measure and…

  • Top 5 Pain Points Tripping Up Your QuarkXPress to InDesign Game

    [su_note note_color=”#deff96″]In L.A. they’re throwing “Innie” parties; flashing an InDesign CS2 CD-ROM is required to part the velvet ropes at SoHo nightclubs, and; in Dallas, even the manliest of designing men is sporting a butterfly tattoo. Learning InDesign is hip. It’s happening. It’s now. InDesign is the new black.[/su_note] Coming from proficiency in QuarkXPress, however,…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 6): Tips and Tricks

    This is the last installment in the back-to-basics-and-on-to-advanced “Tab Leaders” series. If you’ve been following the series, we began by inserting tabs and dot leaders in columnar text (Part 1); moved on to formatting tab leaders differently than the text they separate (Part 2); created in-line, fill-in-the-blank-style tab spaces (Part 3); used the automated formatting…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 5): Fixed-Width Floating Tabs/Spacers

    Although I had planned to make part 5 the last in this series, a reader question prompted me to push the tips and tricks out a week and cover another topic this week. After reading the first few “Tab Leaders” installments, reader Tom asked: I would like to add words to a text frame and…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 4): Automatic Styling

    First, in part 1, we talked about separating columns of text with dot or other kinds of leaders. Next, in part 2, “Formatting Leaders,” we learned that tabs and their leaders can be styled like any other character, opening the possibilities of creative column separators. Last week part 3 focused on using custom text underlines…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 3): Fill-In Blanks in Paragraph Text

    In parts 1 and 2 of this series we discussed inserting and formatting tab leaders in columnar text. The process of separating columns of text is extremely straight forward: hit the TAB key on your keyboard, highlight the resulting tab character, and, using the Tabs Ruler palette (Text > Tabs in InDesign CS3 and Window…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 2): Formatting Leaders

    Last week in the first part of this back to basics series on tab leaders we discussed creating dotted tab leaders in the Tabs palette to separate columnar text. Now, let’s talk about formatting those leaders. Tab leaders–dots, underscores, hyphens, smiley faces, whatever–inserted via the Tabs Ruler are automatically the same font and color as…

  • Tab Leaders (Part 1): Separating Columns of Text with Dots

    Way back in Podcast 25 listeners asked questions about underlining text and creating tab leaders. After hearing the same questions recently from colleagues, I thought the topic was worth revisiting. Vanessa from Australia asked: I have a name, address, and a company name. I want to follow each one of those with a dotted underline…