Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

Continually Test and Explore Other Solutions

While constructing a template, incrementally test your work as you go. Although you’ll be conducting a final test upon completion of the template, don’t wait until the very end to examine your work. You could miss out on a valuable opportunity to improve each solution as you build it.

Testing gives you firsthand experience of what it will be like to produce a document with your template. As you test, decipher where improvements can be made and explore other options and solutions. You’ll find that testing helps to transform the solutions you’ve come up with into better and more productive results.

Experienced designers spend a significant amount of time fine-tuning their templates, because they know ...