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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 — making memories in a gallery


Let's add a gallery of images to our ad, using the Grid template, that'll show what a typical day with Cloud 9 will be like:

  1. 1. Open the Cloud 9 - iPad project in iAd Producer, and double click on the Making Memories pageto open it on the canvas. Select the images cloud-9-example-day-1.jpg through to cloud-9-example-day-7.jpg, and drag them to the grid gallery object on the canvas.

  2. 2. The grid gallery will now update to show the images. Change the page's background type to Image and select blue-starburst.jpg, using the Background section of the inspector pane.

  3. 3. Change the label currently titled Grid View to, say, Making Memories. Update the text color to white so it stands out against the rich blue background.

  4. 4. At the moment, there's no way for the user to return to the main menu, so let's add a back button. From the object library, select a button to add to the canvas. Change the Background type to Image and use the image back-button.png....