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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

Scaling in practice


In this section, we are going to design a simple presentation to demonstrate scaling in practical scenarios. You must have seen awesome image galleries developed using JavaScript libraries. We can create similar galleries using impress effects with effective usage of the overview of the presentation which we mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Impressive Presentations.

Planning the design

We are going to use 12 image containers for our presentation with three rows and four columns. All the image containers should be visible within the browser window. Once the presentation starts, the first image container should scale up to its full width. Then on the next step transition, we need to go back to the gallery again with the first image highlighted. Then the second container will scale up and continue the process until the presentation is complete.

Tip

Positioning is difficult to manage without an overview. I prefer creating the overview as the first slide and removing...