Get to Know Ceros
In these video lessons, we'll review the general functionality of the Ceros studio including how to import assets, apply animations, interactions, and how to publish your final experience.
Understanding Ceros Analytics
In this lesson, we'll overview the Ceros analytics dashboard and how you can better understand the key performance indicators that can help you improve your content.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Ceros
In this lesson, we'll dive into the various tools in Ceros that can help you optimize your content for search.
Importing Your Design Files
In this lesson, we'll walk through how to import design files from Photoshop, Illustrator, and Sketch files into Ceros.
Theme and Settings Panel
In this lesson, we'll review the different customization options available within the Theme Menu and Settings Panel.
Creating Buttons and Popups
In these video lessons, we'll review the general functionality of the Ceros studio including how to import assets, apply animations, interactions, and how to publish your final experience.
Creating Mobile Variants Using Adaptive Layouts
In this lesson, we'll take a look at how you can easily create different variants of an experience for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile devices using the Global Layouts panel.
Create a Carousel
In this lesson, we'll review the steps to creating an image carousel using the Cycle Next and Cycle Previous interactions.
Creating Interactive Maps
In this lesson, we'll review one of the many ways you can create an interactive map in Ceros.
Creating Accessible Content in Ceros
In this lesson, we'll walk through how to leverage the accessibility tools and features in the Ceros studio.
Using Object States for Data Viz
In this lesson, we'll review one of the ways you can create an interactive Bar Chart in Ceros using Object States.
Creating Charts in ChartBlocks
In this lesson, we'll review how to create charts and graphs in ChartBlocks.
How to Use MarkUp
In this quick lesson, we'll walk through how to use MarkUp to streamline the process of giving and receiving design feedback.
Embedding 3rd Party Content and Forms
In this lesson, we'll review how you can use the Embed Object tool to embed 3rd party content such as videos, Google Maps, Spotify Playlists, Social Content, and forms.
Creating Interactive Charts
In this lesson, we'll take a look at how to create animated, interactive charts in Ceros.
Creating an Interactive Menu Bar
In this lesson, we'll take a look at how to create an interactive menu bar to set up some basic navigation within your experience.
Advanced Carousel
In this lesson, we'll build off of the previous carousel lesson to create a more advanced experience using the Show Target and Hide Others interactions.
Creating an Interactive Timeline
In this lesson, we'll review one of the many ways you can create an interactive timeline in Ceros.
Create a Looping Video Background
In this lesson, we'll explore how to make any video file function as a background element - as well as how to layer additional assets overtop for more unique visualizations.
Gating Content with Hubspot and Marketo Forms
In this lesson, we'll take a look at how you can gate multipage eBooks and long scrolling infographics using Hubspot and Marketo forms.
Creating a Slideshow
In this lesson, we'll cover how to create an automatic image slideshow within your experience.
Using Ceros to create animated, interactive charts is an easy way to incorporate digestible data into your content in an engaging way. For this lesson, you can work off a blank canvas, a template, or an experience that you already have built, we are going to create an interactive bar graph.
- Draw out a rectangle on your canvas to act as a bar in your graph and choose a color. Duplicate this bar a few times to create multiple bars for the graph, resize the heights or them however you need, and align and distribute them nicely to the canvas and each other.
- Select all of the bars at once and apply an animation of scale up with a .4 second delay. To create a cascading in effect, hold down shift and deselect each bar one at a time, slightly increasing the delay applied to each so that they animate in one after another.
- Now, mock up a popup to show when a user hovers over each bar draw a text box over the first bar and fill in some information. On the text box you can apply some basic animations that say on view, fade in down, and on hide, fade out up. Now, turn off the visibility of those popups.
- To set up your interactions, start by drawing out a hotspot over the first bar object. On this hotspot, apply an interaction that says On Hover – Show – and choose the text box popup you just created.
- On your preview, you’ll see that now when you hover over each bar the text box will appear, and if you move the cursor away it will disappear.
Looking at the preview you can see how these simple animations and interactions give the bar chart a much more grown-up feel.
If you have any questions on creating interactive charts like this, or would like to explore some of our other chart making options, please feel free to reach out in the chat widget, and we’ll be happy to help.
Using Ceros to create animated, interactive charts is an easy way to incorporate digestible data into your content in an engaging way. For this lesson, you can work off a blank canvas, a template, or an experience that you already have built, we are going to create an interactive bar graph.
- Draw out a rectangle on your canvas to act as a bar in your graph and choose a color. Duplicate this bar a few times to create multiple bars for the graph, resize the heights or them however you need, and align and distribute them nicely to the canvas and each other.
- Select all of the bars at once and apply an animation of scale up with a .4 second delay. To create a cascading in effect, hold down shift and deselect each bar one at a time, slightly increasing the delay applied to each so that they animate in one after another.
- Now, mock up a popup to show when a user hovers over each bar draw a text box over the first bar and fill in some information. On the text box you can apply some basic animations that say on view, fade in down, and on hide, fade out up. Now, turn off the visibility of those popups.
- To set up your interactions, start by drawing out a hotspot over the first bar object. On this hotspot, apply an interaction that says On Hover – Show – and choose the text box popup you just created.
- On your preview, you’ll see that now when you hover over each bar the text box will appear, and if you move the cursor away it will disappear.
Looking at the preview you can see how these simple animations and interactions give the bar chart a much more grown-up feel.
If you have any questions on creating interactive charts like this, or would like to explore some of our other chart making options, please feel free to reach out in the chat widget, and we’ll be happy to help.