Adding Web Views

If you want to jump to a Web page in the middle of your presentation, you can use a hyperlink, as described in the previous section. But sometimes you don't want to leave your presentation, but you do want to show a Web site. You could take a screenshot of the site and insert it into your slide as a graphic, but that only shows the site as it appeared when you took the screenshot. Because many Web sites change constantly, the screenshot approach may be too static. Keynote 2 solves this problem with its new Web view . This is a snapshot of a Web site, but (if you have an Internet connection) it automatically refreshes and updates when you open the presentation file, so you're showing a very recent version of the site to your audience.

A Web view doesn't have scroll bars, and you can't click on links inside the Web view, so it's not as though you have a browser built into your presentation. But Web views are useful to show your audience what a site looks like. If you do want to go to the site in a browser, by default the Web view is a hyperlink to the site, so you can click the Web view and the site will open in your default browser.

You can resize the Web view box as needed. For instance, you might want a small box focusing only on the new navigation bar you made for your client's Web site, or a large box to show the whole page. You can also apply some of Keynote's graphic effects to it. I like to add a drop shadow, to make the box stand out from the rest of the slide. (Go to the Graphic Inspector and select the Shadow option.)

To add a Web view

1.	In Keynote, go to the slide where you want to add the Web view.
2.	Choose Insert > Web View. The Web view box, which looks like a translucent box with an "X" through it, appears on the slide ( Figure 6.24 ), and the Hyperlink Inspector opens. Figure 6.24. The Web view box initially covers almost the entire slide.
3.	You will probably want to resize the Web view box. Drag its handles so that it is the size you want.
4.	In the URL field of the Hyperlink Inspector, enter the Web address of the site you want to appear in the Web view, then press Return. The site appears in the Web view ( Figure 6.25 ). Figure 6.25. The finished Web view.
5.	(Optional) Switch to the Graphic Inspector, and add a drop shadow to the Web view box, to make it stand out from the slide better.

Tips

• Unfortunately, you can't add a stroke to the Web view box with the Graphic Inspector. But you can get the same effect by drawing a rectangular shape in Keynote that's just a little bigger than the Web view box, coloring the shape as you would have the stroke, and sending it behind the Web view box.

• You can use a Web view as the background for a slide for a cool effect. First, resize the Web view box to cover the entire slide. Then switch to the Graphic Inspector, and use the Opacity slider to dim the Web view (about 30% opacity works well). Finally, use the Back button on the toolbar to send the Web view to the background. Now the slide's title and bulleted text will overlay the Web view.

• If you don't want the Web view to be a hyperlink, deselect the check box next to "Enable as a hyperlink" in the Hyperlink Inspector.

• You can quickly create a Web view by dragging a URL from a browser onto the Keynote slide canvas.