Presentations and Presentation Graphics
Put the pow in powerful presentations with positive tips and tutorials on designing effective presentations and presentation graphics. Design powerful presentations for print, Web, or on-screen display.
Describes the role of desktop publishing in the design of presentation graphics.
Before getting all caught up in the gee-whiz features of PowerPoint, let's remember that the purpose of a presentation is to present information — not overwhelm the audience with your flare for animation or a demonstration of every bell and whistle the software contains. To design effective PowerPoint presentation materials follow three basic rules.
Presentations.com has tips on technology and basic skills.
Setting up the room, speaking tips, and understanding your audience. Advice from Presentations.com.
Ways to create better posters for communicating information, especially scientific data, offered by INQUA.
List of tips from Media Services with emphasis on how to use visuals.
Learn which type of graph is best to compare sets of data: Trends, Bar or Line, Pie Charts.
Avoid saying the wrong thing (even unintentionally) with a graph by manipulating the apparent size or look of components.
Get general advice on colors, contrast, and choice of font.
MacWorld article explores doing your presentation with HTML.
Use the planning worksheet and answer 10 questions about your presentation.
Review these basics on visuals, handouts, speakers notes, and last-minute changes.
Learn how to prepare and print handouts that work.
Rick Altman offers his own views on the use and misuse of presentation software in his regular
Altman@Large column at desktopPublishing.com.
