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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 — pages


Let's create a wallpaper-selecting page and two blank template pages, which we'll use later to create our own view from the ground up, using objects:

  1. 1. Let's add some pages to our coffee beans iAd. If you haven't got it open in iAd Producer, open it now.

  2. 2. First up, let's set up our two blank templates. Double-click the first page on the ad overview to open the template chooser. There are two blank templates to choose from, either portrait or landscape; we want a portrait page, so select the taller, thinner of the two. Repeat this step for the next page as well.

  3. 3. Now, double-click the third page, and select Wallpaper Picker from the template chooser. Double-click the wallpaper page again, to open it on the canvas.

  4. 4. The Wallpaper Picker template requires one or more images that it'll display in a gallery. The user can flick through the images and set their favorite as the background on their device. Let's add three images to our wallpaper picker. Open the Asset...