InDesign offers unique advantages for kick-starting a website design, such as its unmatched typographic control, pixel-perfect positioning, and fluid, intuitive layout environment. InDesign offers designers who want to quickly create webpage prototypes a powerful toolset with robust text and object styles, page grid features, and interactivity—and none of the limitations of Photoshop, complexities of Dreamweaver, or burdens of hand-coding HTML and CSS. This course shows aspiring web designers how to set up documents for the web, utilize web fonts for maximum compatibility, design a navigation bar, and even mimic CSS with InDesign styles. The final chapter shows how to export your mockups as HTML, CSS, PDF, SWF, and web-optimized images that can be shown to clients or quickly published to the web.
Topics include:
- Understanding web concepts such as pages, pixels, and the box model
- Working within web colors and grids
- Working with type and type styles
- Designing a nav bar with tables
- Setting up a template with headers, footers, and modular content
- Experimenting with liquid and alternate layouts
- Adding interactive content such as links and video
- Exporting flat PNG and JPEG comps
- Exporting HTML and CSS content
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