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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

Limitations and new features


impress.js was built to create presentations even though we are interested in some amazing other applications with the framework. It is improving every day and there are a few limitations in some scenarios. Also, there are new functionalities which might add a tremendous boost to the power of impress presentations. In this section, we are going to figure out the limitations and necessary improvements that we are hoping to see in the future. We will look into the following list in this section:

  • Positioning steps relative to other steps

  • Defining the previous and next steps

  • Transition duration for individual steps

  • Adding and removing navigation keys

  • Creating substeps

Positioning steps relative to other steps

We define the positioning of elements using the data-x, data-y, and data-z attributes. For each step, we need to provide absolute values such as data-x=100 and data-x=300 , but it would be more appropriate to position steps relative to each other using syntax similar...