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24 Things You Can Design for Your Blog in Adobe InDesign

May 14, 2019

24 Things You Can Design for Your Blog in Adobe InDesign

With so many amazing tools out there for bloggers to use, it can be hard to know which ones to invest in. But there’s one tool I will always pay for because of its high value and usefulness: Adobe InDesign.

I won’t lie, Adobe programs aren’t the cheapest things in the world. So when you make the decision to invest, you better know it’s going to be worth your money!

To illustrate just how useful Adobe InDesign is to bloggers, here are 24 different things you can design for your blog in Adobe InDesign.

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36 Prompts to Practice Using InDesign

March 12, 2019

36 Prompts to Practice Using InDesign

InDesign is an amazing design tool. And thankfully, with a little practice, it’s quite easy to use!

But how do you actually get that practice? There are so many options for what to create in InDesign that it’s hard to know where to begin.

Never fear! Here are a bunch of prompts you can use to practice using InDesign. Even if you don’t follow the prompt exactly, it might inspire a new project that you want to work on.

And if you’re intimidated by the idea of creating an ebook template, don’t let the word count scare you—simply create your textbox and go to Type > Fill with Placeholder Text. No writing required!

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Not a Designer? No Problem! How to Design Your Own Worksheets with InDesign

March 5, 2019

Not a Designer? No Problem! How to Design Your Own Worksheets with InDesign

Content upgrades are an amazing way to grow your email list as a blogger, and they can help you show your authority by proving how knowledgeable you are about a certain topic. Things like worksheets and ebooks are especially valuable when you give them out for free to your email subscribers!

However, if you’re not a designer, it can be quite daunting to try to figure out how to design your own worksheets. Where are you even supposed to begin?!

The good news is, InDesign is quite user-friendly (unlike its design sibling Photoshop), so you don’t need a ton of background knowledge to design your own worksheets in InDesign!

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6 InDesign Tools That Will Speed Up Your Ebook Creation Process

February 19, 2019

6 InDesign Tools That Will Speed Up Your Ebook Creation Process
6 InDesign Tools That Will Speed Up Your Ebook Creation Process

InDesign is an amazing tool, especially when it comes to creating ebooks. You can seamlessly flow text from one page to another, add interactive elements like links, and you can set up your document so specific elements repeat on each page.

But if you don’t know how to use these tools, creating an ebook in InDesign can be a little, well… clunky. But that’s why I’m here! These are 6 basic InDesign tools that will make your ebook creation process at least a little faster.

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5 Signs You Should Invest in InDesign

September 18, 2018

InDesign is an amazing program, and being able to use it with confidence is an awesome skill to have. But at $20 or more per month, it can be quite the investment, especially if you’re on a small blogging budget.

How do you know when it’s the right time to invest in InDesign? In my opinion, there are 5 clear signs that you’re ready to make the leap and start using Adobe InDesign.

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7 Tools I Wish I Knew About When I First Learned InDesign

June 29, 2018

7 Tools I Wish I Knew About When I First Learned InDesign

Have you ever had a moment when you discover something new about a subject you thought you were pretty great at already? It’s both amazing and deflating at the same time.

I first learned InDesign when I was a sophomore in high school, and I’ve been using it pretty consistently ever since. And yet, despite having more than a decade of experience with the program, I’m learning new features regularly. Sometimes it makes me feel dumb, in a “why didn’t I know about this from the beginning?” way. But other times, I get so excited, because this new and exciting thing is going to save me a bunch of time.

Some of these discoveries aren’t applicable in a whole bunch of situations, but there are 7 tools that I discovered after the fact that would have been really helpful to know when I first learned InDesign.

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How to Design Productively Without Compromising Your Design

March 13, 2018

How to Save Time Without Compromising Your Design

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Design is a really important aspect of marketing and blogging. But it can take so much time to create attractive designs!

Throughout the 12 years that I’ve been using InDesign and Photoshop, I’ve discovered some awesome ways to design productively that don’t compromise the design. They’re shortcuts that do exactly what I’d already been doing — but Adobe does it for me!

Here are my favorite tricks to design productively.

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Intimidated by InDesign? Here are the 7 Tools to Start With

May 9, 2017

InDesign is an awesome tool! But like all software, it can be really intimidating. If you're a beginner, don't be intimidated by InDesign! Here are the 7 tools to start using first.

InDesign is an amazing tool to utilize, whether you’re a blogger, a small business owner, or a social media manager.

But, just like with any new software program, it can be really intimidating the first few hundred times you open it. That’s the downside of a program with so many amazing features: it’s hard to know which ones to start with!

So, for all of the InDesign beginners out there, don’t be intimidated by InDesign! Here are the 7 tools you should start with.

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How to Save Time with Custom InDesign Page Sizes

October 26, 2016

InDesign is an amazing tool for so many things--ebooks, worksheets, even buttons for your website! But how can we save time with InDesign? By creating custom InDesign page sizes! Click through for the tutorial!

Hey—want some one-on-one help getting this set up? Book a 20-minute consultation and we can work through it via video chat!

If you’ve been reading And Possibly Dinosaurs for a while, you know that two of my favorite things are saving time and InDesign. So I’m super excited to share an awesome way to save time with InDesign: custom InDesign page sizes!

Whenever you open an InDesign document, it’s traditionally going to auto-fill your page size as a single-page, vertical letter-sized document. You can choose other options that have already been created for you, like Tabloid, Legal, and Half Letter. But what if you’ve got a custom size you’d like to be able to easily select from the drop-down menu without having to look up the dimensions each time?

That’s where custom InDesign page sizes come in! You can tell InDesign what page sizes you’d like available, and it will show them in the Page Size drop-down menu for you. Pretty awesome, right?

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What is InDesign (+ Why Should You Care?)

August 3, 2016

You've heard of Photoshop. But what about its sister program, InDesign? It's a super useful tool for creating things like ebooks, worksheets, and other content upgrades. Find out: what is InDesign and why you should care!

You’ve probably heard of Photoshop, right? Well, did you know that Adobe has tons of programs in addition to Photoshop? It’s true! My personal favorite is InDesign. So, what is InDesign, and why should you (a blogger) care?

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9 Ways InDesign Will Make Your Life WAY Easier

July 20, 2016

We all want to make our lives easier, right? Well, luckily, InDesign can help! If you're a blogger spending too much time trying to grow your email list or increase pageviews, InDesign can help! Here are 9 ways InDesign will make your life WAY easier!

We’re all on the hunt for ways to make our lives easier, right? We’ve got things we need to do and things we want to do, and they don’t often intersect.

Well, good news. If you’re a blogger spending way too much time trying to grow your email list or increase your page views, InDesign can help. Here are 9 ways it will make your life WAY easier.

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5 InDesign Tools that Will Help You (Finally) Get Your Ebook Published

March 18, 2016

Getting published sounds intimidating. Not only do you have to actually write the thing, but someone’s gotta design it. Daunting, right? Well, I’ve got good news: it’s super easy to design and publish an ebook on your own! Click through to find out which five different InDesign tools you can use to finally get your ebook published!

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We’ve all got dreams for our businesses. For a lot of us, that means getting published. Whether that means a book deal with a publisher or selling an ebook published on your own, there’s a lot of work that goes into it.

Not only do you have to actually write the thing, but someone’s gotta design it. Sounds intimidating, right? Well, I’ve got good news.

It’s super easy to design and publish an ebook on your own.

Don’t believe me? Here are five different InDesign tools you can use to finally get your ebook published.

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