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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

Positioning effects


A web browser provides us an infinite canvas to create designs for websites. Usually we choose a specific portion of the browser to design our layouts to be compatible with different screen sizes and viewports. A 960px width grid with unlimited height will be the commonly used approach in web design. This means we are eliminating the possibility of using the space on the top, right, and left sides of our grid. impress.js provides the ability to position elements in a much wider range allowing us to grab the full potential of the browser window.

The amazing thing about impress.js is that we can even position elements in the 3D space using the z index. HTML data attributes are used to specify the positioning information of each step which we are calling slides. The positioning of elements can be done on the x, y, and z axis and we will be looking in depth into all the three directions in the following section.

Positioning on the x axis

We can place the elements in a horizontal...