How to make an S5 Presentation
This is a really cool way to make slides by generating standard HTML that can be presented a page at a time using CSS.
S5 Presentation
- What does S5 stand for
- A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
Now you can see why the call it S5.
Why
Features:
- a slide show
- a web version of the slides for later reference
- works everywhere
- very little markup (especially when used with "Structured Text"
Downside:
- Doesn't work with Konqueror
- Likely to have trouble on the Mac too
How to make an S5 Presentation slideshow
- Create a single HTML content file with
<H1>headers at the start of each page. - If it's located here you just need to click the "S5 presentation" button at the top (to the far right the documents tittle).
- View it anyplace with CSS.
An example using Plone's "Structed Text" format
- Make a new "page" in your "my folder" area.
- Give it a "Title" and "Description".
- In the "Body Text" choose "Text Format" of Structured Text
- Enter the following in the "Body Text" area:
slide1 * Idea 1. step one 2. step two slide2 Something else - Save it out.
The next two slides are the "Body Text" above.
slide1
- Idea
- step one
- step two
slide2
Something else
The same slides in HTML
In HTML it would look like this:
<H1>slide1</H1>
<UL><LI> Idea
<OL>
<LI>step one
<LI>step two
</OL></UL>
<H1>slide2</H1>
something else
The idea and credits goto
- The original S5 Presentation idea
- Came from CSS guru Eric Meyers. See this site for generic non-plone use of the CSS S5 Presentation trick.
- The PloneS5 hooks
- From Andy McKay, Enfold Systems