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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

Best design practices for mobiles devices


There are no recommended methods or best practices for designing for mobile devices since most developers are still using impress.js as a presentation tool. Ideally, you should be getting this knowledge by designing as many presentations as you can. I'll list down some of the common mistakes to avoid when designing for mobiles.

  • Limit the dynamic CSS on the stepenter and stepleave events

  • Don't hide the steps on the initial page load

  • Position elements properly to avoid the overlapping of steps

  • Don't rely on effects to provide meaning to presentations

The guidelines mentioned in this section don't guarantee that your presentation will look better in unsupported browsers for all possible scenarios. We can look for an alternative approach of using CSS media queries to handle unsupported browsers.

In this technique, you will have to create a separate design for unsupported devices, inside another container. Once impress.js recognizes an unsupported browser,...