Web-Ready PowerPoint Replacement
Came across an article on Linux.com about replacing Power Point with a different solution. S5 is a tool that I use to give presentations. It means the presentation is ready to be put on the web immediately, it is already a web page. It works and you can customize the way it looks, but the default is fine too.
S5 stands for Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System – it is an HTML file with javascript and CSS support files to control navigation and slide presentation, so it works the same on every platform. Just a browser is needed to view the presentation – pretty much any reasonable browser will work. Get the S5 files. and get started.
For me, the thing that says the most about this tool is that during my last presentation about 2 weeks ago, nobody noticed that I wasn’t using powerpoint or some other presentation tool when I used S5. Nobody cared. I hate powerpoint, it frustrates me. I honestly didn’t try the OpenOffice Impress presentation tool.
The S5 solution isn’t for point and click people. It is for text editor people like me that don’t want to be bothered having to mouse, point, and click all the time. You open the presentation file, index.html, inside any text editor and fill in each slide stanza with the data and image links as you like. No fuss. I’d show an example here, but the use of HTML prevents it from being properly displayed. ;)
Any remote control just works. Ok, perhaps not just any remote, but I’ve been using a USB connected, Media Center remote and it works perfectly. Never tried any other remotes.
There is 1 hassle. You have to type a slide number in to jump there. When you reload the file to see updates, it returns to the beginning, not where you left off.
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