InDesign Tutorials for Beginners

You’re new to InDesign and you want to learn as quickly as you can. You’ve come to the right place. InDesignSecrets is the biggest InDesign site on the Web, with hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques. For the new user, check out our Beginners Corner category and be sure to listen to this episode (or read the transcript), as well as the show notes on that page. You can find many of the most important posts here on this FAQ page.

However, we can’t cover everything, so here’s a list of a few other sites that you should check out when you’re first learning InDesign:

There are lots of resources at lynda.com, including some free movies at the beginning of my InDesign Essential Training title
If you want to buy a book about InDesign, we can recommend several
Lauren at Creative Curio has a number of good basic tutorials.
~~Neil at Creative Mentor is posting many good lessons perfect for InDesign beginners~~
~~Rookie Designer is more generic, but there’s some fun stuff there and the forums are hoppin’~~
Of course, InDesign Magazine is always a good source of information; I always recommend new users subscribe!
Layers has some good tutorials for beginners on InDesign, of course