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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 — hidden pages


As you can see, we've got too many items in our menu and the first page looks cluttered and messy. Let's make our own custom menu and make our store finder page accessible as a hidden subpage of our ad.

  1. 1. We'll be continuing with our coffee beans example; if it isn't already open, open your Coffee Beans project in iAd Producer. From the Overview, open the Menu page on the canvas. You'll see our last menu item; the store finder is cut off the page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. We could just move the menu up, but this would produce a cluttered and overwhelming initial screen to show to the user. Instead, we'll create our own navigation menu with button objects and place the map page button in the Steamy Savings page, so it's hidden from the main menu.

  3. 3. Return to ad overview and open the Steamy Savings pageon the canvas. Before we're able to add anything to this page, we need to temporarily move the Wipe Clear object off the canvas to access the page...