Nyx - The FlashTease Editor - Public Preview Release
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:01 pm
July 28th. That's when I wrote the first line of code. Now, 55 days and many, many lines later I present to you:
Nyx! - The Milovana FlashTease Editor
It's named after Nyx, the Greek black bird who gave birth to Eros which I thought was kind of fitting since the editor will give birth to webteases. Let's hope those teases will bring pleasure to a lot of people.
What's a public preview?
It means you can try it out, but you can't publish the teases you create yet. If the testing goes well, you will have that option very soon. Please report back in case you have any problems with the editor and also if everything seems to be running fine.
How to use it
First of all: You need to be logged in. Then you go to http://www.milovana.com/nyx/ to start the editor.
- Create a tease
- Go to the Media tab to upload a few images
- Go to the Visual tab and create a few pages by clicking the little page icon with the plus next to it.
- In the box to the right you can enter any text for that page.
- When renaming the page use a name that has only letters and numbers (no spaces) and ends with a #-sign
- On the left you can select an image. If you don't select an image it will display a random image.
- To add interactivity look at the bottom, you can add a delay or buttons.
- Buttons have a label and a target (the page that you go to once you click it)
- A target must be the name of a page, for example page2#
- You can either create buttons with custom labels or use the predefined button configurations continue and yes/no.
- When defining a delay you need to choose a duration and a target (again, the page that will be shown once the timer runs out.)
- There are three types of delay: Normal is a full timer that shows the users how much time is left. Secret shows the user that there is a timer, but not how much is left on it. And hidden doesn't show anything at all.
- You can combine delays and buttons, for example to make someone choose within a certain time frame or to have a "Give up" button on a particularly long page.
- Make sure you hit the save button (the one with the floppy on it), before you go to the preview.
The script view
Right now, you can look at what script the visual editor generated for you. If you're the investigative kind - feel free to play around with it, too. For everyone else, we will release a help system that will make it really easy to learn for those who need more functionality than the visual editor can offer.
That's it from me, although I'll also post a list of known issues in a minute for your information.
Nyx! - The Milovana FlashTease Editor
It's named after Nyx, the Greek black bird who gave birth to Eros which I thought was kind of fitting since the editor will give birth to webteases. Let's hope those teases will bring pleasure to a lot of people.
What's a public preview?
It means you can try it out, but you can't publish the teases you create yet. If the testing goes well, you will have that option very soon. Please report back in case you have any problems with the editor and also if everything seems to be running fine.
How to use it
First of all: You need to be logged in. Then you go to http://www.milovana.com/nyx/ to start the editor.
- Create a tease
- Go to the Media tab to upload a few images
- Go to the Visual tab and create a few pages by clicking the little page icon with the plus next to it.
- In the box to the right you can enter any text for that page.
- When renaming the page use a name that has only letters and numbers (no spaces) and ends with a #-sign
- On the left you can select an image. If you don't select an image it will display a random image.
- To add interactivity look at the bottom, you can add a delay or buttons.
- Buttons have a label and a target (the page that you go to once you click it)
- A target must be the name of a page, for example page2#
- You can either create buttons with custom labels or use the predefined button configurations continue and yes/no.
- When defining a delay you need to choose a duration and a target (again, the page that will be shown once the timer runs out.)
- There are three types of delay: Normal is a full timer that shows the users how much time is left. Secret shows the user that there is a timer, but not how much is left on it. And hidden doesn't show anything at all.
- You can combine delays and buttons, for example to make someone choose within a certain time frame or to have a "Give up" button on a particularly long page.
- Make sure you hit the save button (the one with the floppy on it), before you go to the preview.
The script view
Right now, you can look at what script the visual editor generated for you. If you're the investigative kind - feel free to play around with it, too. For everyone else, we will release a help system that will make it really easy to learn for those who need more functionality than the visual editor can offer.
That's it from me, although I'll also post a list of known issues in a minute for your information.