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      CommentAuthor3stripe
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005
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    Need to do some powerpoint presentations for a client, they've asked for them in Powerpoint. (eugh)

    So just wondering if there are any Powerpoint alternatives out there? Ideally it would be templatable, fairly idiot proof to update, but slicker than Powerpoint in terms of graphics/transitions etc. Anything from Macromedia that might work I wonder, hmm.
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      CommentAuthornifkin
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005 edited
     # 2
    I think Breeze is the macromedia online-powerpoint type app.

    That said, my dad does a lot of presenting at various seminars for an organization that has a bunch of designers/etc. pre-pack a lot of presentation materials for them in powerpoint and such. Apparently at their last meeting the basic feedback they had for the designers was "It's very nice that you can make everything transition in and move and such, but if you do it too much it's an impediement to our presentations and people pay more attention to what the slides are doing than to what we're saying."

    Just a side note for everyone to keep in the back of their heads. :)
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      CommentAuthor3stripe
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005
     # 3
    Yup I would agree on that front.

    (Powerpoint is just a little frumpy for my liking.)
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      CommentAuthorgraste
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005
     # 4
    One powerpoint alternative is OpenOffice Presentations. Simply test 1.1.4 or the (imho very stable) Beta of the upcoming OO2.

    Webbased presentations are "in" btw. ;)

    - http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/
    - http://s5presents.com/
    - http://soapbx.com/main/
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      CommentAuthornathan
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005
     # 5
    What OS do you plan on using?

    I would HIGHLY recommend KeyNote for Mac if you have one. It is a little pricey, but well worth it.
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      CommentAuthordwclifton
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2005 edited
     # 6
    Courtesy of Eric Meyer and Tantek:

    [S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System](http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/XHTML#ericmeyer:S5)
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      CommentAuthor3stripe
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2005
     # 7
    I think they'll be PC based. I think a web-based presentation might be a selling point as it could sit on the website as well. Thanks for all the pointers folks.
    • CommentAuthorpatrix
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2005
     # 8
    what about Openoffice.org ?
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      CommentAuthorsweeney
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2005 edited
     # 9
    s5 is cool.
    Incidentally, www.ntk.net featured it today in their newsletter...


    It's a bit disturbing how much we've talked about PowerPoint
    alternatives in Tracking in the past - and the immediate
    present, for that matter. S5 is Eric Meyer's re-coding of
    the old Opera Show trick, whereby a nicely-formatted single
    XHTML page can be magically transformed into a complete,
    formatted PowerPointy presentation, all in your
    standards-compliant browser. Opera's parlour trick merely
    let you page up and down the pages while in full-screen
    mode, and got a bit tricky to using when Opera started
    showing the ads in front of your bid for venture capital.
    Eric's version lets you jump around the slides with keyboard
    shortcuts, do primitive transitions, and, most importantly,
    still code the whole thing up in simple HTML.
    http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
    - S5. Catchy.
    http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02003-01-31#TRACKING
    - its fine forebear
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      CommentAuthordwclifton
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2005
     # 10
    S5 is pretty slick, easy to use if you can code XHTML, easy to style if you know CSS, and is independent of any desktop application. Plus, they run in any decent browser. Hell, some of these a-listers put together a slideshow for a conference, it gets released on the Web, and afterwards the presentation will get bookmarked like crazy on del.icio.us and Furl and receive boatloads of traffic.

    This one: [The Elements of Meaningful XHTML](http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/), has a PR of 6 for example.
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      CommentAuthor3stripe
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2005
     # 11
    I'm liking the idea of a browser based presentation a lot.

    My only concern is that non techies must be able to put together their own presentation. Meyers stuff is nice but I would need a CMS system almost so that an idiot could put together a presentation. Images as well could be tricky. Hmmm, has anyone done a kind of app version of this yet?
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      CommentAuthordwclifton
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2005
     # 12
    Not that I'm aware of. But I was thinking that a nice front-end for technically challenged people would be pretty sweet. I said challenged. lol

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