New York City Code Camp Presentation "Slides"

Posted on March 04, 2007  |  

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I’d like to thank attendees of the NYC Code Camp and those of you who attended my talk on ASP.NET and web standards.

This year I tried to do something a little different. Preparing for the presentation, I cut down on wording while thinking what visual would best go with each slide. The idea was to add a bit of emotion to each topic as opposed to turning it into a slide-reading exercise. This is why I thought imagery would help make the presentation more engaging. Kudos to Stock.XCHNG for being a fantastic source of inspiration (and royalty-free photography).

Speaking of slides, I don’t do PowerPoint. I don’t like PowerPoint. I’m sticking with Eric Meyer’s S5—an HTML/JavaScript/CSS slide show “system”.

If I may suggest to other speakers, please don’t use the mother-empire blue background with lots of bullet points. I seriously can’t keep myself awake in a room with darkened lights and dark slides, no matter how compelling the content is. This is why I picked a vibrant S5 theme, Flower.

The presentation is now online. If DOCTYPEs and print style sheets sounded new to you, please see these two articles:

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Damir
on March 5, 2007

The presentation (at least slide show) is excellent. I cannot but agree on all mentioned points.

Thanks for pointing to S5, I liked it very much :D


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