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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

Overview of this book

Everyone has had to present during their lifetime. We've all spent agonizing hours trying to make those PowerPoint presentations engaging. Well now there is a tool that will make those presentations look like child's play. Impress.js is a powerful library that eases the task of creating presentations with smooth animations without depending on a software tool. You are no longer limited to desktop tools as these presentations run on any supported browser anywhere on the Internet. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" is a quick guide to creating professional presentations using the best aspects of CSS3. It will also guide you through several practical examples which go beyond the conventional slide-based presentations, covering each aspect of the Impress library. From simple presentations to your own personal website this handy practical guide will ensure you get the most out of Impress.JS as quickly as you can. Starting with a simple slide-based presentation we move quickly on adding in sliders, galleries and portfolios to utilize this amazing tool. 3D transitions, rotations, scaling, and transforms are also covered to give your presentations that something extra. The final step is bringing all this together to create a personal website that is viewable on all impress supported browsers. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" gives you the chance to stand out from the competition and engage with audiences in a way you never have before.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Impressive Presentations

Presentations are one of the most effective ways of communicating our ideas to people who are interested in the topic. A perfect presentation will grab the attention of the audience and keep them interested in our ideas, while a bad presentation can bore our audience and ruin our reputation. This means that, the presentation creation tools play a vital role in designing a good presentation.

We used to create presentations with popular desktop programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Open Office Impress. Things have changed dramatically now and web-based presentations are gaining more interest from users. impress.js is one of the stand out frameworks among the web-based presentation creation libraries and tools. We are going to work on creating impressive visualizations with this framework from here on.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • What is impress.js?

  • Built-in features

  • Beyond presentations with impress.js

  • Why is it important?

  • Downloading and configuring impress.js

  • Creating your first presentation

Ideally you should have basic knowledge of CSS and HTML to understand this chapter. Everything will be explained using detailed and simple examples and by the end of this chapter you will have the knowledge to create basic presentation with impress.js.

So let's get started!