Problem: In a div tag you have another div tag and you wish to apply left margin. Let’s say you set it to 35px. You check it in IE and looks great. Then you go to Firefox and needless to say it’s obvious you would need to set it at a much higher number.

Solution:

For IE
#Author2{
margin-left: 35px;
}

For Firefox
#mainAuthorBox>#Author2 {
margin-left: 70px;
}

Problem: When you nest div tags in another div tag the container might not display in Firefox because it colapses (if you have background colour you can see its gone even though the div tags in container are displayed).

Solution: before closing div tag for container put another div tag and define #lastBox {clear: both;} in CSS . It should work just fine.

… then I reccomend you use SangIt. It is especially useful when you need to capture a scrolling window in one image. All major formats are available e.g. jpg, png, gif, bmp, tif and others. It is also possible to record video (for example, when you want to instruct somebody to do something in a certain way). Feel free to explore it and I’m certain you will find many features you will later use.

As we switch between different software there are always few extra tricks we have to learn. And how this is done? Well, usually by trial and error. But even trying hard, while doing the same mistake doesn’t make it pleasurable – no, not even nice.
In my desktop publishing career I have used several software packages. First was Adobe’s PageMaker … used it for about 4 years. In between came QuarkXpress – just a quick peek, because I was not able to export pdf at that time … and then this year Adobe’s InDesign – pure pleasure to work with.
I’ll focus on just one trial and error search of wrap function. As you may know in PageMaker |Element>Text Wrap opens a dialog box (or right-click with mouse) while in InDesign you have to go to |Window>Text Wrap and palete opens and it actually can stay open as long as you wish. I rather not go to the same issue in QuarkXpress … but certainly some searching was involved ;)
So keep in mind that although the same function is probabbly available, they are “hidden” in a different classification scheme and therefore placed in another drop down menu – usualy the one you would least think of. Hint: search and you will find – sooner or later.

Problem: Today I recieved an email from my classmate asking me how to link two or more frames in InDesign so that text will flow from one to another.

Solution: If a frame has more text than there is space available a little red + sign appears in the lower right side of the frame. When clicked text loads and a loaded text icon beside mouse pointer appears. Click in a frame you want text in and it will flow into it. Repeat this procedure as many times it is neccesary.

One easy problem that can be resolved in less than a second.

Problem: Adding colours to gradient is quite straightforward, you click on swatch and drag it to the gradient. But what if you have done mistake and you want to delete that swatch? Well clicking on it won’t help, pressing Del, Backspace or Esc key don’t help either.

Solution: click and drag swatch from the panel and then when you are out of it release right mouse button.