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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


We started this chapter by looking at the background of the impress.js framework and how it was created. Then we talked about the importance of impress.js in creating web-based presentations and various types of usage beyond presentations.

Then we obtained a copy of the framework from the official github page and completed the setup. Finally we created a basic impress.js presentation by explaining the structure of the presentation and effects.

We have covered most of the basics of this framework during the chapter. Now you should be able to create and design a simple presentation using the impress.js framework. In the next chapter, we will be looking at the effects of impress.js in detail and how to combine those effects to produce better presentations.

So stay tuned to create amazing effects with impress.js in the next chapter.