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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 — adding objects


We'll add to the Coffee Beans example that we've been building so far, by creating two custom pages, using the blank templates that we had selected earlier when creating our project. To add objects, follow the ensuing steps:

  1. 1. Open the iAd project for the Coffee Beans ad that we have been working on. From Overview open the first blank page on the canvas: it should be titled Bean Blender. You should see a blank page, with a menu button, ready for us to add our custom objects to. Before we get started, set the background of the page to a solid Color Fill white, so that it matches the menu page.

  2. 2. We'll be making a page that changes between shakes, displaying different facts about coffee beans. Click on the Objects button in the bottom of iAd Producer, to open the object gallery.

    Note

    There's already a shakable view template that we can use for this! However, we'll build this page ourselves, to demonstrate how most of the templates are simply built using the...