Cover Flow

Cover Flow

Cover Flow allows our clients to display their products using large images that grab the attention of our readers. They can manage all the products and information from their side to assure it stays up to date.

 

EXAMPLE

Specifications

Studio Cover Flow (Simplified version of XML version)

• Dimensions: 515x330px
• Weight Limit: 70KB per image

Technical requirements

All cover flow products need the following XML specifications

• XMLi must have UTF-8 ecoding and the XML must validate – there should be no errors opening the feed in a browser
• Usual &, <, > characters have to be converted into html specific character
• It is recommended to use XML specific CDATA function, where you can add standard strings. Read more about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA
• XML should be uploaded onto client server, public address and be accessible. The feed may be password protected, our systems support password protected feeds.
• The interval of how often the feed is check is set up as needed but will not be shorter than every 30 minutes.
• The image may be max quality and will be processed by DELFI
• It is strongly reccomended that the image provided be in correct aspect ratio

XML Feed:

Example XML feed
The feed has root element of <adsection> that contains <colors> and <products> elements. <Colors> contains <background> and <text> color elements which are optional. Each <product> must have <url> and <pic> elements. Optionally it can have <headline> and <desc>.

• <adsection> is the root element that contains the repeating elements
  • <colors> element that contains colors
    • <background> element that contains background color, has to be HEX – *optional
    • <text> element that contains text color, has to be HEX – *optional
  • <products> element that contains list of products
    • <product> repeated element updated by the client
      • <url> is the address where the user is sent to if clicked on the product – *required
      • <pic> is the product image, only acceptable image dimensions are 515×330 – *required
      • <headline> product headline – *optional
      • <desc> product description – *optional