Help with page set in indesign!!!

Hi I am trying to set up a 8.5 x 11 brochure with double sided pages. the pages will originally be 17 x 11 so i can fold them into the correct size. how do I go about setting this up? I know i need to print duplex with saddle stitch but when i try to set up the 17 x 11 pages in indesign it makes the whole booklet that length. help....

We need to be very clear about waht you mean by a "page" rather than the number of sheets on which this is going to be printed. If the brochure is one sheet of 11 x 17, printed on both sides and folded so it has 4 panels, then you can set it up as a two-page 11 x 17 document. I do it this way most of the time, and set the pages with two columns to make the margins at the gutter where it folds for convenience in layout. Side one (page 1 in the layout) would have the back cover on the left and the front cover onthe right, and side two (page 2 in your layout) would have the two inside "pages."
In theory you can set up a longer document this way, too, but it's so much work to remember the imposition pattern and such a hassle and prone to error to work this way instead of looking at the design as the readers see the finished product, that I would never do it for more pages. Setting up as 8.5 x 11 facing pages is fast, easy to work with, allows for changing the page count if necessary, and works for automatic page numbering, so it just makes more sense to do that if you will be printing more than one sheet of paper.

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> I am in the process of designing a new website for
myself, and while I was
> researching nicely designed pages to use as inspiration,
I stumbled upon
> this
> site:
>
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/
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incorporates a lot
> of
> web mechanics that I have been trying to figure out, so
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> page as
> an example.
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see in the posted
> website, the creator used a seamlessly tiled paper
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> bulk
> of his content on. also make not of the pattern that is
located to the
> left of
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like this that
> will
> scale to fit any amount of content or any resolution? I
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> the
> guy that made that site created a new size background
every time he made
> an
> update, so there has to be an easier way.
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> read that most sites used series of invisible tables to
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> content,
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