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Greetings from Southeast Ohio,
This week at The Athens NEWS, I found myself training one of my co-workers on InDesign and it got me thinking about when I first started using the program. During my undergraduate degree, I took a class called Intro to Publication Design that focused on page design using Adobe‘s software package, Creative Suite 4, where I picked up many of the basic skills that I continue to use to this day. I also completed a design internship 2 summers ago with Ohio University’s Communication and Marketing department, where I discovered Lynda tutorials.
Lynda.com is a website created by well-renowned graphic designer Lynda Weinman. It has very high quality video tutorials for just about every software program you can think of, including all of CS4. I found the site to be very useful, and it even has many tutorials available for free!
Below is an introductory video for a Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial:
I hope that this information has helped to quell some of your worries about diving into any of these software programs. From what I’ve heard, its best to just have a solid foundation of journalism principles. You don’t HAVE to spend hours upon hours learning coding, programming, and specific software. These videos can teach you the basics you need to hit the ground running and learn as you go.
-Tyler 
