I am new to the Storyline and I have a basic question. I would like to create a slide with six buttons on it. When a user clicks on a button, a text, a picture, a video, or an interaction would display on the screen. Is it wiser to build this slide with multiple layers or create six slides (one for each button) and link each button to a separate slide?
Is there a showcase or a screencast of something similar to what I am doing?
I am not sure there is a "best practice" here, although someone will now probably post one!
My first way of thinking is "are these buttons all pertaining to one "theme"?". If they are, I usually build layers, (or lightboxes if the visual style is correct). If the buttons take you off to different themes/"chapters" - then I would probably use slides, each in a different scene.
You also need to think of navigation - does your design keep the navigation congruent.
Layers, for me, make a simpler design, but really either way achieves the same result.
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Hi Ash,
I am not sure there is a "best practice" here, although someone will now probably post one!
My first way of thinking is "are these buttons all pertaining to one "theme"?". If they are, I usually build layers, (or lightboxes if the visual style is correct). If the buttons take you off to different themes/"chapters" - then I would probably use slides, each in a different scene.
You also need to think of navigation - does your design keep the navigation congruent.
Layers, for me, make a simpler design, but really either way achieves the same result.
Hope that helps.
Bruce
Agree with Bruce here
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