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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 — validating your iAd


Whenever you're working on a project in iAd Producer, you can check the status of your ad at any time.

  1. 1. Open in iAd Producer the project you want to validate, for example, Validation Example in this book's assets.

  2. 2. Once the project has opened, select Export from the menu bar and then Show Project Warnings. This will open the Project Report window. An example of the Project Report is shown as follows:

The report is split by general and page-specific issues, and falls into two sections:

  • Errors—highlighted with a red circular icon

  • Warnings—highlighted with an orange triangle icon

Errors mean the project is invalid and would not be accepted by Apple into the iAd program until they're rectified. Warnings are suggestions and hints at things you may have missed, or ways to improve your iAd. Warnings don't prevent your iAd from being accepted by Apple, but it's important to check and fix them if you can.

Let's fix the errors with our project first.

  1. 1. If you're...