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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

Understanding the impress API functions


impress.js comes up with four useful API functions that can be used to customize the functionality of presenting information in various techniques. We have already worked with the init function throughout the previous chapters. In this section, we are going to focus on three more API functions. Before we dig into the details, let's create an impress object to use API functions, using the following code:

var api = impress();

We used impress().init throughout the previous chapters to initialize presentations. In order to use API, we need the impress object as given in the preceding code. Once created we can call API methods on the impress object with ease.

The following list contains the impress.js API methods and their respective functionality:

  • api.init(): This method initializes the presentation

  • api.next(): This method moves to the next step of the presentation

  • api.prev(): This method moves to the previous step of the presentation

  • api.goto(id): This method...