PE 3 - iWeb | over and above

AWESOME! I just learned this really cool trick to create a “splash screen” on an iWeb site. The best part--it is flippin easy to do! Essentially, you create a short video in iMovie. I’m talking 10 seconds or less. Also, export it in such a way that the file is relatively smallish (in the 3-5 MB range). Place the video on the screen and set it to autoplay. Remove the controls from the video and make sure it doesn’t loop. Finally, place a box completely overtop of the movie, make it a link to your “home page”, and fill in the box with white (but bringthe opacity all the way down to 0%). Now you’ll have a “splash screen” that is hyperlinked to your home page. BRILLIANT!

One last thing that I figured out on my own... This is a great way

to create a fake image map. Essentially, place a picture on the webpage and create a bunch of transparent shapes over top the image. Each shape can be a link, thus, an image map.

below: opaque shapes hyperlinked

below: transparent shapes hyperlinked

Here’s a link to the splash screen I created for my wife’s new photography business she’s starting up. When you click the screen it takes you to the mock-up image map.