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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

Automating presentations


In real life, presentations will be used with manual controlling on most occasions since it is hard to automate presentations with predefined time intervals. You never know how much time it will take to explain a slide and whether the audience will come to you with questions expecting you to answer.

Automating presentations can be used to improve your skills as a presenter. You are not always going to get enough time to do your presentation. Sometimes, you will be bound to deliver the presentation in a limited time period. In such scenarios, you can automate the presentation using certain intervals and try to match the explanations with step transitions to get some practice for a live occasion. Here, we are going to discuss how to use API functions to automate presentations.

The first thing we have to do is create a few steps for the presentation. Since we have already created some presentations, you should be familiar with the syntax. Once the steps are completed...