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iBooks Author Building Table of Contents Layout
iBA Building Portrait Book Cover Layout
Character Development Design by Mary Begin
Custom iBooks Author Table of Contents
iBooks Author and Meta Data
The iBooks Author Template
iBooks Author Placeholder Magic
Install iBooks Author Template
iBooks Author for Board and Picture Books
iBooks Author Blank Layout
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iBooks Author Building Table of Contents Layout
In the last tutorial, we began building your book in iBooks Author by customizing the Book Title layout with your own title and book cover illustration. Now, it’s time to tackle the Table of Contents.
iBA Building Portrait Book Cover Layout
The portrait or vertical Book Title page is the first image that the reader will see after downloading your book. When reduced to a thumbnail graphic, it will be displayed in your book’s listing in the iBooks Store and in your reader’s iBooks Library.
Character Development Design by Mary Begin
In this video training course entitled Character Development and Design, at Lynda.com, Mary Jane Begin discusses both her own and other artist’s create their characters.
Custom iBooks Author Table of Contents
As most early reader books are short, the number one customization requested by my BellaOnline readers is to change the default Table of Contents page in iBooks Author. After reviewing sample books in the iBooks Store, I noticed that many children’s books omitted the iBA TOC page.
iBooks Author and Meta Data
The first task you have when creating a book in iBooks Author is to give titles to the chapter and sections of your book which will determine the Table of Contents. In the Book Pane are the pages that create the foundation of your book, as they contain hidden code, called meta data.
The iBooks Author Template
All iBA templates contain several chapter, section and page layouts. As in traditional books, an iBA book chapter contains sections and those sections contain pages. Let’s discuss just what you will find in any iBooks Author template and the extras I have added to my template for children’s books.
iBooks Author Placeholder Magic
iBooks Author placeholders make creating your own storybook as easy as dragging and dropping. Each layout in a template has the graphic and text placeholders already position on the page. You can use these as is or rearrange or delete them.
Install iBooks Author Template
Before we begin building your book, you should download and install iBooks Author on to your computer. If already installed, be sure that it’s the latest version. You will find it free in the App Store. Once you have iBA installed, you are ready to load the template.
iBooks Author for Board and Picture Books
In this How to Use an iBooks Author Template series of tutorials, we will learn how to customized an iBA template with your own text and illustrations and publish to the iBooks Store.
iBooks Author Blank Layout
In this tutorial, we will continue to take a close look at the iBooks Author template, in preparation for building our own custom template for a children's board, picture or chapter book.
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