

If you are preparing a document for print, keep your margins and bleeds in mind from the beginning.

Hopefully, these tips will help you make the best of your day-to-day use of InDesign. This is not intended to be a manual some good ones are already out there (although I personally learned by doing). Here are some tips I wish I had known when starting out, as well as some answers to questions that others often ask me. Yet I remember how counter-intuitive some things were when I was learning it for the first time. For multi-page documents, it’s the most flexible and complete application out there. We have an even bigger list of links to sites that we recommend on this page.I love Adobe InDesign. Layers has some good tutorials for beginners on InDesign, of course.Of course, InDesign Magazine is always a good source of information I always recommend new users subscribe!.Rookie Designer is more generic, but there’s some fun stuff there and the forums are hoppin’.Neil at Creative Mentor is posting many good lessons perfect for InDesign beginners.Lauren at Creative Curio has a number of good basic tutorials.If you want to buy a book about InDesign, we can recommend several.

