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The XSites Presentation Builder is used to create Advanced Intros for your site, as well as Virtual Tours for your listings. It lets you build a slide show full of your own images, text, timings and animation - all without prior knowledge of Flash programming or anything beyond basic computer skills.
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Note: If you're creating a Virtual Tour for your listings, skip to step 4. | ||
- First, gather together the images you wish to use and have some idea of the text you want with each image. If possible, save all of the images in one directory on your computer's hard drive.
- Then, in the XSites Wizard, click
My Intro in the Extra Tools menu. Mark the
Use advanced intro options option. You'll see a grid with any
previously created intros. (If this is your first time for your site,
the grid will be empty.)
- Click Add New Intro to open the XSite Presentation Builder. This is a simple 5-step wizard that leads you through the creation process. To move through the wizard, just complete each screen and click Next. At any time, you can click Back to return to the previous step.
- The first step is to name the presentation. This is only for your internal use, so you can call it whatever you like.
- Next, choose a background color. We give you choices that match your site, but you can pick anything you want by clicking the color swatch on the right for Pick a new color.
- Choose your background music. To hear a sample first, click
Play.
- Now, add a slide for the first of your images. Click Upload Image, then, click Browse to find and select the image on your system and click Upload. Repeat this process to upload all of the images you'd like to use in your presentation. Once the images are loaded, continue with the following steps for each image.
- First, decide how long you want the image displayed by changing the number of seconds next to Display Time. Be sure to add time in for any animation for the image and text.
- Now, enter the Caption to go with the image. After typing the caption, you can drag it to another location on that slide. Just click on the caption text in the slide preview and move it.
To
customize your caption further, click Advanced Options.
- You can select a new font for the caption and how you want its presentation animated - i.e. fade in, fly in, etc.
- You can customize the animation, deciding if it affects individual words or letters and what happens to each word or letter.
- Click Preview once you've selected your options. While getting familiar with the intro builder, you'll certainly want to try the all the options to see what you like the most.
- Click OK to save the options for that particular slide's caption.
- In the slide preview at the bottom of the window, you'll see a button with Fade on it. A fade-in is the default animation for your slide, but you can click the button and choose a different transition for the slide.
- While choosing the transition for the slide, you also choose an additional
effect to be used on the image as it comes into view.
- To sample the different effects and transitions, just choose one and click Preview.
- If you want to use the same transition and effect for all slides, just mark the box at the top of the Slide Transition dialog for Use for all slides.
- Click OK when you've chosen your slide transition.
- Click Next when you are through adding slides. You can now choose to preview the presentation, go back to a particular piece of the presentation or click Save & Close to go back to the XSites Wizard, or return to your listings Virtual Tours page, where you can click Save and Close to enable your new Virtual Tour.
When you are through building your presentation for an Advanced Intro, be sure to select it from the list. Then click Save to make it live, or just click Next to save the changes and move on to the next step in the wizard.
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