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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

Designing the portfolio page


We create personal websites to expose our skills to the world. On the home page, we give a brief introduction about us and what we actually do. But no one is going to believe you unless you can provide facts that prove the given details. Providing examples of our work is the best way to convince the readers of your website or potential clients. So let's start creating a cool portfolio page.

There are two types of pages we need for designing our portfolio:

  • Portfolio gallery: This page contains a collection of work samples

  • Portfolio single: This page contains detailed information about a single work sample

Portfolio gallery

We are going to create a separate step for each of the portfolio items. We can use an overview step with a larger scale to show the portfolio steps as a gallery. Let's create the portfolio overview step:

<div id="portfolio-overview" class="step slide" data-x="3250" data-y='400' 
data-scale="3.5" data-type="portfolio-gallery" >
</div&gt...