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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

Summary


impress.js provides well organized source code for customizing existing functionalities and extending core functionalities by adding new sections. Default configuration options are provided for general purpose usage. Customizations can be made to default configurations to suit your needs.

The library is built upon four simplified API functions for presentation, initialization, and transition. We can take advantage of the API functions by specifying and calling them in our own code to provide custom behaviors, such as automating presentations.

Step transitions are build upon well organized processes using CSS classes. Each step, at any given time, is given a specific state and it can be used to add different behaviors to presentations.

Finally, we discussed keyboard configurations and managing your own keys for impress functions. Before moving on to the next chapter, I recommend you work with demo files and understand the core concepts properly.

In the next chapter, we are going to look...