Google Web Designer, GWD, PDF not an image & Iframe is not cross platform

Google Web Designer,  GWD, forum post:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gwdbeta/TsIwOT_OlIA/ShlftHDBzrYJ

We have built a GWD Iframe inserting a pdf into this test page. We are told GWD insert image does not recognize pdf as an image.

http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/RecipeGalangalSoup.html

 It works fine in Chrome and Thailand I E but fails to render the iframe in USA I E. (no iframe or pdf) and I don't know how that is even possible but that what the test shows (no iframe in USA IE).

Chrome

                                       

 I E Thailand

I E USA

 and not at all on Android 

even with adobe reader installed to both Samsung androids (Galaxy 10.1 and 5 inch Galaxy Note) both operarting on android 4.1 or higher. 

Android Thailand

Until resolved GWD iframe does not import a PDF cross platform!  

Chef LeeZ Google Web designer GWD interstitial Ad as a home page!

Chef LeeZ has been publishing blogs on their experience and found work a-rounds since the launch of Google Web Designer GWD. These can be found at Chef LeeZ Blogger Posts.  This is our 4th web site to have been built using GWD.

Today we write about use of a Google Web Designer – GWD – interstitial ad as an index (HOME) page for a web site.  Click here to visit the live test website. 

We found we could create an “index.html Home page” in GWD interstitial Ads and use hyper linked text to navigate about the site. The only draw backs thus far are:

1)  Only on the first view and perhaps not necessarily on every first view does it download size adjusted for viewing on a mobile device (Galaxy Note, 5 inch screen, Android 4.1). Refreshes result in the page going full size.  

2) When it is full size we are unable to move the page contents up or down or left or right as we can with a GWD HTML page.

3) The Thai Cooking School BKK  site was built 700 px wide desiring a left margin of 150px but we had to go with a left margin of zero and place the nav bar to the right side of the page as opposed to across the page to be able to see sufficient of our page to navigate and to be able to see the swipe images.

Verdict is .. Interstitial Ads as your home page are not, as yet, cross platform ... 

Check out our next test, incorporating this page as an Ifram added to an otherwise empty GWD HTML page. Our money is on it works as logic says it will work as the previous test adding ads by way of Iframe is currently running successfully  (see related blogs & http://chefleez.com)?

Otherwise this Google Web Designer – GWD – interstitial ad functions as designed.

Chef LeeZ

Chef LeeZ Google Web Designer - GWD - Interstitial Ad has Android Small Screen Display Problems.

221013 Chef LeeZ  published its website with the inclusion of our season's greeting interstitial 3 page ad as a header and found it to function on Chrome, I.E., Safari and on Galaxy 10.1 android o/s 4.0.4 but fails to function as designed on the 5 inch Galaxy Note, android o/s 4.1.

The very first test of the site it downloaded and re-sized to fit the small screen, the swipe pics worked and the go to the next page worked all worked as designed. However, on the second time through it skipped the second page and jumped directly to the 3rd page. Subsequent views of http://ChefLeeZ.com on the small screen it was difficult to get the pics to swipe and would not go to the second page. It also  failed to re-size to fit the screen but we were able to manually reduce it to fit. We also noticed the text on the right hand side of page two re-sized so as to not show all the last line of text.The final function failing was when we scrolled the web page content up the content slid up underneath the ad as opposed to sliding up the whole page including the ad.

P.S. ) This morning 251213 we have solved the disappearing page problem by shrinking the size of the tap areas and separating their position so as to not overlap.

Chef LeeZ - Google Web Designer - the Iframe work around

Chef LeeZ earlier test using Google Web Designer - GWD- their intertistial iframe option was that it failed to adjust the slide bars so as to enable seeing the entire object. It is, at this time, a logged bug!

Well here's something that works ... and demonstrates your ad needs to be designed to the size of the initial view port inside the slider bars .. then entice your visitor to the visit rest of Ad as voluntary user interaction.

This version of Chef LeeZ, ( http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/indexN1.html) is an unpublished site. It proves this code does work for both Chrome and I E.  Simply add the code between  the two the top <body> and teh final  <body> of the page code.

  <div style="position:fixed;top:0px;left:150px;width:150px;background-color:red;">

      <iframe width="150" height="100" ;="" seamless="" src="http://www.yourwebsite.com"></iframe>

    </div>

Let's break this down a little as we did two searches 1) for position code and 2) iframe code and melded them for you as follows for our example.  For yours you would put your src="URL" in place of ours

 <div style="position:fixed;top:0px;left:150px;width:150px;background-color:red;">

      <iframe width="150" height="100" ;="" seamless="" src="http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/Ads/Xmas2013/index.html"></iframe>

    </div>

Position: above, Top __ Left ##px, then the width which lets you set where on the page the iframe will sit as you will not see it render on your design page as anything more than a div box 

The <iframe code defines the size of the container the iframe will be  width and height.

This proves Chef LeeZ first ad designs will not be effective in an iframe.

Chef LeeZ Google WEb Designer - GWD - One Page Ads Work Best!

Following the acknowledgement by GWD that interstitial ads do not currently re-size when taken into Android and that Android does not click event to first page from end page except to provide a flash of the first page and jumps into the end page it is best to make your ad a one page ad.

Chef LeeZ LOL (Laugh Out Loud)  Christmas Ad.

 http://bit.ly/19TOBUQ

http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/Ads/Xmas2013/index.html  

Chef LeeZ wishes you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Safe Holiday Season!

Chef LeeZ interstitial Christmas Ad has an Android BUG.

We built Chef LeeZ Christmas Ad using Google Web Designer - GWD - interstitial generic - 300 x250 special small so it would be visible on small phone screens as there is no re-sizing built into the GWD program and you need to think of what will be the smallest target screen to view the Ad. We selected 300 x 250 and the size appears to be fine and views fine.  Fewer pictures or smaller pictures will decrease the load time between  pages.

Here's the BUG... When you click the second page GO TO the next page icon it should return you to the first page. Instead it flashes the first page and immediately jumps back to the second page.

In the following Christmas ad there are two pages. The second page returns to the first page in all browsers checked except Android 4.1.

http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/Ads/AdsInterDC/Xmas4Family/index.html

May you and yours have a safe and wondrous holiday season!

Chef LeeZ - Google Web Designer - GWD - Interstitial Video & Youtube Ad Test

Chef LeeZ, Trip Advisor Thailand, # 1 culinary arts Thai Cooking School Class -
 test of Google Web Designer GWD Interstitial Video (is so far we can not make it function) with the YouTube Ad results below:

http://www.cookingschoolsintl.com/chefleez/Ads/AdsInterDC/CLSGYlwCuryCrbVideo/index.html

We find it to appear to hang on hte first opening from inside Chrome but works in I.E..

We wait on the reports from our LTS's USA and Canada for how it works on their platforms.

This test used the default setting of 300 x 250 generic as previous tests found Intertistial Ads do not auto resize (shrink) for phone apps and are not swipable to view the whole Ad. This smaller size is in hopes it will be more universally functional.

We wanted to include a tap area to go to http://chefleez.com but found you can only create tap areas that are pages within the Ad and that's too bad.

We are unable to make the Interstitial video component to work so far.