03Aug
In Production: Designing a Table of Contents
Here’s a sneak peek at the latest episode now in production! Get ready to design the table of contents for your magazine project.
What’s do I need to get started?
While there are unlimited ways to design a magazine’s table of contents, there are 6 items you will usually find present somewhere on the page.
1. Feature articles and regular articles with corresponding page numbers
2. Images that relate to your feature and regular articles
3. The volume and issue number of your magazine
4. Editorial department staff listing with or without contact information
5. Contact information for your magazine
6. Logo for your magazine or publishing company
Gather up these items and watch the next episode below!
Do you happen to have a tutorial on transfering a word document to inDesign?
Hi Lorie! I will add that to my production schedule. Just so you know, I only use Word for text/copy editing and then copy the text into InDesign. If you spent a lot of time formatting your text (i.e. setting fonts, sizes, etc.) you can transfer these into InDesign as character styles. This isn’t a perfect transition however. I’ve stumbled across many issues copying text from Word into InDesign and usually just format the text in InDesign after keeping the type simple in Word.
Hopefully, that is what you are referring to in your episode suggestion.—Keeping designing!