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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

Planning the website structure


Personal websites are essential for showing your skills and improving your reputation online. Earlier people used to create websites with a bunch of HTML pages. These days single page websites are becoming very popular. You can find various free plugins for creating such websites without putting in much effort.

impress.js can be extended to create single page websites. Actually, we are going to create a presentation in a way that makes it look like a real website. Before we move any further, let's plan the structure of the website.

The sketch of the structure of our website is shown as follows:

Generally, all web pages have a header with a navigation menu, so we are going to use a fixed header with the name of the site and the navigation menu. It's important to know that the header is not a part of the impress.js presentation. After the header, we place the steps of the presentation to look like real web pages. A 960px container has been chosen for the content...