Background Images and RSS Timelines
March 4, 2008 | 3 min 2 sec
To demonstrate draggable background images, we’ll create a timeline with the RSS feed from the Apple Trailers website and we’ll add a background image using a photo from our iPhoto library.
Transcript:
Bee Docs Timeline 2.0.6: New Features
RSS / Atom Feeds
Hi, this is Adam and I’d like to show you the new RSS feed importer in Bee Docs Timeline.
I’m going to select a Look and then the RSS feed importer, and then for this example we’re going to go ahead and leave the default feed here—which is the Flickr blog. To open one of the blog entries in this timeline, we’ll just click the Link button.
Let’s create another timeline. Again, we’ll select the RSS feed importer. And, I’m going to launch Safari here and what we’re going to chart is this Home Office Lawyer blog written by one of our long term customers.
We’ll click the RSS button in Safari and notice there’s three feeds. Whenever there’s more than one feed, usually the Atom feed or the RSS 2.0 works well. We’ll copy the address of the feed and paste it into Bee Docs Timeline. Then we’ll extend the date range here to make sure that we get a good selection of events. Then we’ll click “Create Timeline.”
In a few seconds, you have a timeline of the Home Office Lawyer blog and we can click on any of the events to go to the original blog article.
Drag & Drop Backgrounds
Another new feature in this release is draggable background images. To demonstrate this, we’ll create a timeline with the “Path” look and them I’m going to take the RSS feed from the Apple Trailers website and we’ll go ahead and use that as our timeline.
Now if you click the Photos toolbar button here, you’ll see photos from my Aperture library and my iPhoto library. I can just pick a photo and drag it on to the background to set the background of the timeline to that photo. This makes it easy to play with a bunch of different images and find that perfect image for the background of your timeline.
You can still drag photos to the events in your timeline. Just hover over an event and the event will turn yellow and then drop it on the event and the picture for that event will change.
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