Thread: Getting started, but how?
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Old 06-07-2012, 11:26 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by misskennedy View Post
I'm a total newbie and never done an Ebook. I downloaded Sigil, read the manual and browsed th Forum here, but still, I don't know very well just HOW to get started. Is there an easy step by step turorial which lets you create a simple book, with some pictures, some text and some chapters, just a simple thing in order to introduce noobs like me into the workflow?
Or / and is there a template book which I could work on and learning by replacing content?

In fact, I have an Ipad3 and would like to make an Ebook for it (matching the Retina Display) its a comic, so content will mainly be pictures.
My 2cents
Learn by reverse engineering (similar) a book you like

You DO need to know HTML and CSS for what you want to do (at least with Sigil which is aimed more to the Text side). You can easily throw pictures on a page with Sigil, but to place them nicely you are going to be using HTML and stylesheet properties to whip them into neat place(ment)
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