Start by clicking on the Design Tab and choose EDOnline-Page Design

Next you will be brought to the EDOnline 9.0 Welcome Page. Click on any page from the ‘Ladder Preview’ in the bottom right hand corner of your screen to get started:

Once your pages is open, begin familiarizing yourself with the top tool bar:

The icons on the top tool bar do the following:

View: The ‘view’ tab is a list of actions that you can add to your page to help make designing easier:

Ruler: Provides rulers on the top and left side of your page
Snap To: Snap to will add lines to your page that will help you align items as you move them.
Grid: Places a grid on top of your page.
Comments: Adds a comment to your page, so you don’t forget anything you need to do (NOTE THESE COMMENTS WILL NOT SHOW UP IN PRINT)

Page: The ‘page’ tab changes the way your whole page will look:

Mirror Left Page: Will give you a mirror image of whatever is on your left page.
Mirror Right Page: Will give you a mirror image of whatever is on you right page.
Clear Left Page: Will delete everything on the left page.
Clear Right Page: Will delete everything on the right page.

Frame: The ‘frame’ tab includes actions that you can add to any frame on your page, like a photo frame, text frame or shape:

Add Drop Shadow: Adds a drop shadow to your frame.
Add Rounded Corners: Puts rounded corner around a frame.
Wrap Text: Wraps text around an image. Apply this to the image you would like the text to wrap around.
Limit Move Region: When added to a frame limit move region makes it so the frame can not be moved past the black cut line.

Automate: The ‘automate’ tab helps fast track your yearbook building process. You can build your people pages, Use the book configurator to help with your yearbook theme, or create an index for your book.

Book Configurator: helps you add a pre-designed theme to your book. You can look in our library of themes and pick templates, backgrounds, and clipart to fill your book.
Make People Pages: Use people pages to simply flow your student portraits onto your pages. All you need is your pictures and a PSPA file to use this. For more information on how to use people pages, click here.
Create Index: Use this tool to create a back of book index. Make sure to tag your photos.

Settings: Settings allow you to edit cretin features on your page:

Designer Settings: Allows you to edit features in the EDO designer
Style Settings: Allows you to edit fonts and colors
Manage Page Locks: You can delete page locks on cretin pages if you are the admin of the account.

Help: Need help while you are designing? No need to exit the page, just click on the help tab and type any question you have in the search bar:

You can also change your designer type to Flash if you need to do so, take a Eguide tour of the designer, and look at useful keyboard shortcuts we have available.

Now that you have a better understanding of the top tool bar, take a look at the tool bar on the left side of the page:

The buttons under ‘Insert Items’ place a object or frame onto your page:

Under ‘Insert Items’ is the ‘Actions’ Section of the designer:

Manage People allows you to manage your people page data right from the designer. Do things like add a new person, edit person details, or upload data.

To see what your page will look like in print, go into preview mode. Preview mode removes any guidelines from your page.

Quickly build a page with page builder. add photos, choose a template, preview your page then build your page.

If you need to move the order of your pages, use the move pages button. You can move your whole spread with standard page moves, or a single page with advanced page moves. To learn more about page moves, click here.

There are 2 layers to ever page in EDO, the main layer where you design most of your page, and the background layer where you design specifically your background. You can add things to your background layer by right clicking on an object. Click here for more information on background layer

If you would like to add a gird of drop photo boxes and text boxes, use the auto grid tool. This is especially useful when you are laying out your people pages.

If you notice content is missing from a page you saved, or you would like to go back to a previous version of you page, use the recover pages tool to go back to an old version of your page.

Now that you understand the buttons on your page, take a look at the actual page itself. You will notice that there are 3 lines around the page:

Safety Line : The purple safety line is where you want to keep all content that you don’t accidentally want getting cut off in production. Keep things like text boxes and images in this line. 
Cut Line: The black line is where we physically cut the pages in production 
Bleed Line: The red bleed line is where you are going to want to extend all backgrounds to. The bleed line exists so that when we are making your books, if we don’t cut exactly on the black cut line, there are no white slivers of paper on your page. 

Now that you have a better understanding of you page, start designing your first page! The best way to familiarize yourself with the EDO designer is to start using it! Explore, and have fun!