Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 7 January 2017

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Creative Ways to Increase Landing Page Conversions 110 CSS Menus with Cut …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 4 January 2017

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. How the Internet Unleashed a Burst of Cartooning Creativity New Year’s Resolution: Learn …

Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 30 December 2016

The day’s best and most impor­tant design- and design business-focused arti­cles, tuto­ri­als, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke. Strategies For Effective Mobile Landing Pages World War Three, by Mistake – …

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); …

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 …

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, …

Change Typefaces without Using the Mouse

Here’s a quick tip for chang­ing the font of text quick­ly in all ver­sions of InDesign and InCopy–and with­out ever touch­ing the mouse. Let’s begin by estab­lish­ing two facts: First, CMD+T/CTRL+T opens …

Find/Change Objects and Attributes in InDesign CS3

Among many excit­ing new and improved fea­tures in InDesign CS3, the total­ly re-imagined Find/Change func­tion is among my favorite top five. The first time I opened the Find/Change dia­log I was literally …

Change Measurement Systems on the Fly

You prob­a­baly already know that you can type into just about any of InDesign’s mea­sure­ment fields a val­ue based on any mea­sure­ment sys­tem InDesign under­stands. For instance, if the doc­u­ment uses …