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A Fix For InDesign’s Email Hyperlink Problem

InDesign Secrets, Jul 17, 2017

It’s simple to create an email hyperlink with InDesign, but did you ever notice that the format of the hyperlink is potentially problematic? The @ symbol in the email address is replaced with a hex code %40. For example, jethro@leadingswmaniacs.com becomes jethro%40leadingswmaniacs.com. And that is just the start of the mayhem. Luckily, there is a workaround.

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Creating Your Own Blended Learning Courseware

Learning management systems (LMS) provide sophisticated web-hosted courseware. While designing Young Person’s Guide to Project Management, we found a way to build a home-grown, simple LMS using consumer-grade hardware and software apps. The results rival what you see on the best sites (like LinkedIn Learning or Khan Academy).

We've fully documented how we have done it:

View Creating a D-I-Y Blended Learning Course

To prepare this extensive ‶how to″ article, we wrote three research articles first. This three-part series covers hardware selection, setting up a quiet studio environment, choosing the best software apps, pro tips for recording your screen, and defining a repeatable, design-to-delivery production process: