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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By : Ben Collier
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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By: Ben Collier

Overview of this book

Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app on a user's iPhone or iPad that they've downloaded from the App Store. When the user taps your advert's banner it bursts into life filling the entire screen of their device. iAd Beginner's Guide takes you through the start to finish process of building rich, compelling, interactive iAds. You will learn to create beautiful multi-page ads with store finders, social sharing, 3D images and video galleries. You will create ads that utilize the powerful technologies in the iPhone to make your brand shine. Once you have engaged the user you can carry out targeted advertising campaigns with location-based coupons, store finders and social engagement. Using the iTunes Store you will see how it's even possible to add one-click digital content purchasing right within your ad. Learn how iAd producer manages all the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 behind your iAd. You will be creating emotive, gripping and effective mobile advertising campaigns in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
iAd Production
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — testing your iAd


Let's take a moment from building our iAd to check over the Dino Stores ad that we've been creating so far to check that the animations provided by the templates and multi-labels are working:

  1. 1. If it isn't open already, open the Dino Stores project that we've been working on and open up the banner on the canvas editor. You might need to return to the overview to find the banner.

  2. 2. From the menu bar, select Export then Preview in Safari. This will open Safari, with your banner in it. You should see the text slide in from the right and the image fade up. Don't worry if you can see the text before it enters the main banner area, which would be out of the visible frame on the iPhone.

    Note

    You might have noticed that the iAd logo and frame is missing from the preview in Safari, this is added by the iAd system on the iOS devices and is not available in Safari.

  3. 3. Let's view the animation again by refreshing the page. From the menu bar in Safari, choose View and...