Power Point Templates

Animoto presentation tool now on Facebook & YouTube

2008-03-25T07:30:00.000-07:00

If you are sick of not only the usual PowerPoint Templates but by this type of presentation all together Animoto announced that they now have a new Facebook app called "Animoto Videos" and that you can use the images you already have on your Facebook or the pictures you're tagged in to make the great Animoto videos that they've already got us used to.
In addition to that they've partenered up with Youtube so you can post your Animoto videos directly to your YouTube account. This very useful new feature under the video player.
Awsome.

How to give a great look to your PowerPoint Design Template

2008-02-20T03:28:00.000-08:00

I'm not gonna talk about the basic stuff, like how to save or edit the slide master of a PowerPoint Template (I already did). In this post I'm gonna tell you how to make it look good.

First and foremost you need to make it as simple as possible.

Don't put all the text that you are gonna say on the slide. That'll make it look very messy, unproffesional and it'll distract the audience's attention by reading what you are saying ahead of you. And that's not good.
A great way is to use images. You can find great images all over the internet and especially at flickr.com. But don't spread images all over a slide and put stupid animations, put the more like background images. And if you want to put some text put it over the image. Do not allign the text in the middle (looks very common), but try alligning it to something else in the picture. And do not use all kinds of unappropriate colors and text effexts.
One way to do it is to use just one word one slide. t'll be simple, it'll look fresh, it'll make you look like a pro.

Cheers!

Just found a new PowerPoint Template Set

2008-02-19T02:44:00.000-08:00

The guys over at ppted have for download a new PowerPoint Template Set with five awsome template designes with backgrounds for wide screen templates. These templates have great designes so they're for sale. You can view the simulated presentations over here.

Five ways to reduce PowerPoint overload

2008-02-19T02:30:00.000-08:00

As a first post form a series on how to create great presentations I present you with Cliff Atkinson and Richard E. Mayer that show us a few ways to reduce PowerPoint overload. Free for download here.

200+ Free Quality MS Powerpoint Templates

2008-02-14T06:34:00.000-08:00

I think I've seen here a few of the greatest designed templates around. And you know where I've found them? On the Microsoft Office Online website.
You can click here to go to them. There are, I think, over 200 Presentations Templates.
They have categories like Academic, Business, Design, Healthcare, Training and quite a few others.
Check it out!

.POT File Extension

2008-02-14T06:24:00.001-08:00

.pot file extension / file type is associated with PowerPoint Template (from Microsoft)
And this is what this blog is all about. I have also explained yesterday how you can create a PowerPoint Template.

Fresh Free Green Design Template

2008-02-13T15:00:00.001-08:00

This is a fresh PowerPoint Design Template. It's green and it has a lime in it. You can download this .pot template for free by clicking here.

Create a PowerPoint Template

2008-02-13T02:37:00.000-08:00

Learn How to Create a PowerPoint Template:

I've created this tutorial for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, though you can use it in other versions (like MS Office's PowerPoint 97 or 2000) with maybe minor differences. Once the template is created you'll be able to use it with PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003. That being said, here's how it works:

Once you've opened PowerPoint select File -> New -> (and in the New Presentation task pane) Blank presentation.

Click View -> Master -> Slide Master. Then Insert -> New Title Master. Now you have a Slide Master (upper one) and a Title Master (lower one). Anything you modify or add in these masters will appear in on all the slides based on Slide Master.

Go to Slide Master preview to see your Slide Master in edit mode. Now you can add a Background (either a color or an image) - I hope you know how to do that.

Now, do the same with your Title Master. (Click it to see it in the edit mode and the edit anything you want to edit)

You can also edit, either in the Slide Master or in the Title Master the fonts used, the colors of the fonts and stuff (Format -> Slide Design -> Slide Design task pane -> Color Schemes), alignment and so on.

That's it. Just save your newly designed template by clicking File -> Save As -> and from the Save as type choose Design Template (*.pot)

Ta-daaam.

If you have andy issues just leave me a comment. *wink-wink*

"ANIMOTO: the end of slideshows"

2007-11-26T10:46:00.000-08:00

Animoto is an online tool for creating cool animated presentations. Still in beta.

Preezo - Online presentations

2007-09-11T15:29:00.000-07:00

This is what Preezo sais on its website:

	Create
	Create professional quality presentations using an ultra-fast Ajax user interface.
	Access
	Access your presentations from any computer with an Internet connection and a modern browser.
	Reuse
	Reuse images or the content of entire slides from easy to use galleries.
	Collaborate
	Save time and reduce headache by collaborating on a centralized web document.
	Share
	Distribute presentations to clients and colleages without having to email huge PowerPoint files.

VCASMO - a multimedia presentation solution

2007-09-05T11:53:00.000-07:00

Vcasmo is a tool that lats you mash up video and sound with your Power Point presentations. Vcasm describes itself like this:
"VCASMO is a multimedia presentation solution for personal photo-video slide show share, business presentation, training, acadamic teaching, sales pitching, seminar, conference, press release meeting, live event."

You can see it in action over at Vcasmo.com

Later edit: My bad, looks like you can embed it. thanks luar.

720 Totally Free PowerPoint Templates

2007-09-04T14:31:00.000-07:00

Though they are not of an exceptional design... you can find a lot of templates, ranging from business, creativity to gradients or abstracts.
You can find all this at Powerbacks.com

Slidecasting 101

2007-09-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

Slidecasting 101

As the description over at slideshare sais:
"This is an instructional slidecast showing how to make a slidecast. Very meta, no? Anyway, it's a good example of the possibilities that slidecasting has. It's a new medium, somewhere in between pictures and video. We can't wait to see what kind of slidecasts YOU come up with!"

But what's a slidecast?
A slidecast is this: slides+podcast= slidecast

Here! Have a look at this presentation

How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan

2007-06-24T06:28:00.000-07:00

Google and PowerPoint

2007-06-15T01:32:00.000-07:00

It looks like Google is prepairing to launch a web-based version of PowerPoint (following their multi-user versions of Word and Excel). This'd be nice.
We can see a hint of that in the new feature of gmail: "Users of the Gmail email service can now open Microsoft PPT files within a Google environment using their Google web-based software."

Business Power Point Template .pot

2007-06-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a new template, this time a black and white template. This is also a simple one.
You cand download it from here.

Draft Powerpoint Template

2007-06-02T10:07:00.001-07:00

So... this is a first template. It actually is just a draft. It's not a template. I'll edit it later. I hope...
You cand download it from here.

Why Another Powerpoint Templates Blog?

2007-06-02T06:50:00.001-07:00

Because I'm sick of all those tasteless templates that I see all over the internet. Tasteless I tell you! And not only that they are ugly as hell, but they also are extremly expensive, aren't they?
So I'll try and come up with a couple of cool powerpoint templets every week. And if I happen to see a cool template somewhere else I'll let you know.

Cheers!