The included themes cover a huge range of book types. The most striking feature of all the designs is, as with most template collections, the cover page of each design. The section types and page types included within this collection are mostly identical to those contained within the six templates that ship with iBooks Author but they are styled to match the overall theme of each template.

70 templates for only £11.99 is good value if you are seeking inspiration or a kick start to a new project.

On 7th June 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Design a Training Manual in iBooks Author in which she demonstrated the key features of iBooks Author that facilitate the creation of the next generation of training materials.

The webinar lasted 1 hour 12 minutes (plus 13 minutes of Q&As) and covered the following topics:

• Working with Templates
• Meta Information
• Repurposing Training Materials
• Importing Word DOCX Files
• Manually Correcting Imported Text
• Styles
• Tables
• Charts
• Live Linking to Numbers Data
• Inserting Audio Files
• Inserting Video Files
• Customizing Labels
• Working with Interactive Images
• Creating Image Galleries
• Inserting Keynote Presentations
• Using Class Widgets
• Working with Review Questions
• Adding a Timeline
• Previewing on an iPad

The recording of the webinar is also available for purchase from MacBitesLearning.co.uk

The recording of the webinar is also available for purchase from MacBitesLearning.co.uk

On 24th May 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Working with Data in iBooks Author in which she demonstrated how to create stunning tables, charts, graphs and timelines that can be incorporated in to any iBook you create.

The webinar lasted 1 hour and 12 minutes in duration (plus 11 minutes of Q&As) and covered the following topics:

• Basic Tables
• Advanced Tables
• Keynote Tables
• Numbers Tables
• Basic Charts
• Linking to Numbers Charts
• OmniGraphSketcher
• Interactive Images
• Displaying Data in Timelines
• Previewing Data on an iPad

On 17th May 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Create HTML5 with Hype in which she demonstrated the creation of several HTML5 applications using Hype from Tumult. The webinar, which lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes (plus 25 minutes of Q&A’s) covered the following topics:

• Introduction to the Hype Interface
• Creating Basic Animation in Hype
• Working with Shapes
• Working with Text
• Working with Images
• Creating an Animated Advert
• Previewing in a Browser
• Creating a Photo Album
• Adding Conditional Logic
• Working with Video
• Creating a Video Jukebox
• Creating an iBooks Author Widget
• Previewing on an iPad

On 10th May 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Create an Interactive Adventure in Keynote in which she demonstrated how to create interactive presentations that can be incorporated in to any iBook you create. Elaine demonstrated how to create iBooks Author Zoo a fully immersive and embeddable presentation and followed this by creating a 3D Timeline in Keynote.

The webinar lasted 1 hour and 4 minutes in duration (plus 15 minutes of Q&As) and covered the following topics:

• Basic Hyperlink Navigation
• Advanced Hyperlink Navigation
• Controlling Presentation Navigation
• Previewing the Embedded Presentation
• Proof Copies v. Exported iBooks
• Creating a 3D Timeline
• Exporting a 3D Timeline
• Adding a 3D Timeline to iBooks Author
• Previewing a 3D Timeline on an iPad

On 3rd May 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Creating Photobooks in iBooks Author in which she demonstrated features useful in the creation of Photobooks in iBooks Author. As an experienced IT Training Consultant, Elaine has been creating training materials for over 20 years and as soon as the software was released by Apple, she set herself a task of building an interactive book that showcased all the features of iBooks Author. The book, which is almost 100 pages, was used as a case study during the webinar and is also available as a free download.

The webinar lasted 1 hour and 14 minutes in duration (plus 18 minutes of Q&As) and covered the following topics

• Managing Text Flow
• Designing for Photos
• Page Backgrounds
• Gradient Backgrounds
• ColorSchemer Studio for Colour Management
• Advanced Image Framing
• Using Images as Backgrounds
• Creating a Reusable Layout
• Styles
• Creating a Double Page Spread
• Creating Striking Images – Instant App
• Exporting Your Photobook
• Additional Templates

Version 1.1 of iBooks Author made the PDF output much neater but audio and video content are still lost in the export.

Want to return those features to your exported PDFs? Adobe Acrobat Pro has you covered as explained in this video from the Adobe Acrobat User Community at AcrobatUser.com

On 19th April 2012, Elaine Giles delivered a webinar Creating Interactive Content for iBooks Author in which she demonstrated how to create interactive elements that can be incorporated in to any iBook you create. The range of content was amazing, as demonstrated by the list of areas covered. As an experienced IT Training Consultant, Elaine has been creating training materials for over 20 years and as soon as the software was released by Apple, she set herself a task of building an interactive book that showcased all the features of iBooks Author. The book, which is almost 100 pages, was used as a case study during the webinar and is also available as a free download.

The webinar lasted 1 hour and 12 minutes in duration (plus 22 minutes of Q&As) and covered the following topics

• Adding 3D Content
• Sourcing 3D Content
• Adding a Photo Gallery
• Adding a Google Map
• Adding an Interactive Map
• Adding an Interactive Adventure with Keynote
• Adding a Twitter Feed
• Adding a Streaming Video
• Creating a Dashcode Widget
• Adding an Interactive Puzzle