May 24, 2024

Banner Panels in TextBlaze

I developed a TextBlaze system for easily generating code for QUT's mobile-responsive banner panel Canvas HTML elements.

Early iterations offered LDs to choose from a list of coded 'banpan' elements, but this approach eventually breached TextBlaze's character length restrictions.

The new innovation allowed all 'banpan' versions to use the same generic code but with the inclusion of cynamically inserted variables to control the image, the colour and the class.

The development required the use of TextBlazes advanced editing features:

  • dropdown menu
  • if/else conditions
  • formulas

Ah we will miss your giant LD brain Leigh!

OES Learning Designer
24 May 2024

Oooh this is fabulous.
I will need to get you to show me some time the best way to keep adding to this Textblaze drop-down list
- this is gold!!!.

OES Lead Learning Designer
April 2023

The following video is a training resource in which Leigh explains the workings of the 'banpan' TextBlaze to the QUT team, so that other LDs can extend and maintain its usage.

Thank you SO much for this Leigh Canny.I've just had a watch and its great!!
I've added it to the Textblaze sub-item of the LD Resources board QUT section as well.

OES Senior Learning Designer
24 May 2024