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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

Designing the timeline page


Timelines are very popular components among websites. They allow us to track the time of various activities. We are going to create a different kind of timeline with impress.js effects to show the important activities of your career. Working knowledge of 3D space is required to create the timeline. We will be using the depth of the presentation canvas using the data-z attribute. Let's take a look at the preview of our timeline:

You can see that all the events of 2012 are displayed with the same size, and the events of 2011 seem to be smaller compared to the 2012 events. Actually, the 2011 events are created with the same dimensions as the 2012 events, but they are placed deeper in the presentation canvas using the data-z attribute.

So, the events of the current year are displayed initially. Past years are placed deeper and deeper into the canvas. This effect enables us to view the latest event closest to us and go into the screen for the previous events. Hence the...