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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by davidbanham » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

pythonaut_16 wrote: post #6

Here's another pretty cool one using Elixir and Phoenix Channels (Websockets): https://github.com/ernie/venture It also has markdown based slides but syncs the presentation to clients via websockets, and allows for interactive slides with things like Polls and live chats.

Reveal.js can also sync the presentation to clients via websockets with its multiplex plugin.

You can use the same mechanism to have the presentation on a computer connected to your projector and control the slides from your phone (or any other computer)

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

reimertz wrote: post #9

I created CLI for creating simplistic presentations for my first lightning talk. It turned out pretty great so I open sourced it. It has some neat features such as live-reloading server, anonymous deployment, mirrored highlighting and cursor and speaker mode. https://reimertz.github.io/lagom Would be awesome to get some more contributors.. hrmf, I mean, users. :)

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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by dagenleg » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by jlantunez » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

navies wrote: post #3

There's an issue where navigating to the next slide from the first slide brings you back to the first slide. I'm not sure if this is intended.

Hi, Navies. It's not an issue. It's intentional

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by tarboreus » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

Personally I'd rather make a presentation in HTML than in a magic GUI. Also works on a broader array of platforms. But your mileage may vary.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by jlantunez » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:19 PM UTC

ohstopitu wrote: post #4

I generally use RemarkJS to create my slides ( https://github.com/gnab/remark ). However, what's the difference between this tool and https://slides.com/ (and it's MIT open sourced at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ ) ? EDIT: not saying you should not create this tool...but what was the motivation? (or the differentiation factors?)

Hi ohstopitu,

Slides.com is an great tool. WebSlides is a solution for making presentations, landings, and long-forms. It's also a starting point for building custom CSS frameworks.

For more on why I decided to build WebSlides check out this post: https://medium.com/p/fa7a9e37ff97/ Thanks!

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by teleclimber » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

I'd say so, yes. Mostly just because HTML is ubiquitous, it means your presentation continues to live on after your talk by uploading it to your site. Plus your slides can be responsive, accessible, searchable, linkable (if you build them correctly of course).

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by geraldbauer » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

If you want to write your talks / presentations in plain text w/ markdown formatting I put together a ready-to-fork jekyll (github pages) theme called jekyll-talks-themes -> https://github.com/henrythemes/jekyll-talks-theme (using the s6 (html) slidekit -> https://github.com/slidekit ).

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by colordrops » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:27 PM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #10

Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive. Edit: being this…

This is the ultimate article on scrolling UX:

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/

Basically, don't mess with built-in scrolling functionality - just change how your page renders based on scroll position.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by geraldbauer » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 9:29 PM UTC

For for html presentations packaged for github pages (jekyll) and writing in plaint text with markdown formatting, see the slideshow-templates org -> https://github.com/slideshow-templates Ready-to-fork (use) packs include: deck.js, impress.js (3D!), reveal.js, g5, s6, s5, and more.