My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Welcome to our demo site HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload |||||||| This is an example of a macro Web site built entirely with the following software:  PowerPoint ® 2010 from Microsoft ®  ActivePresentation™ Designer from GMARK  PPT2HTML from PPTools If we needed to explain how to use it, we’d have failed… so we won’t! The site itself explains how we built it (in under an hour) though ++

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Wire Frame All great Web sites start with a well thought out wire frame. The wire frame defines where the various elements of your site go. From this, you can decide what is always the same and where the actual content of your site will be placed. This is used as a basis to creating the PowerPoint slide master layouts needed. We decided on a relatively simple wire frame for this demo as shown to the right. Masthead ActivePresentation Navigation Left Article Content Main Article Content Footer HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Slide Master The following objects are placed on the slide master: 1.Masthead image 2.Masthead text “My Web Site” 3.Masthead text “Created using…” 4.Footer with hyperlinks for Contact and About Us HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Theme The PowerPoint theme consists of 3 primary elements: 1.Color palette 2.Fonts 3.Effects Color Palette We used a default palette called Pushpin Fonts We used a font family called MetaOT for all titles and body content. Effects The effect family was set to Opulent HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Layouts Layouts were created in the Slide Master to cover the following types of content pages: 1.Left navigation plus main article content to the right. 2.Two column content. 3.Two column content with the right column taking an image. 4.Content taking the full area. HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | ActivePresentation Designer The ActivePresentation navigation is built using a 1 level tree as shown in the screenshot to the right. Multiple levels can be used for a site with more pages. Style is set as per the button below and sound is not used as it’s not supported by PPT2HTML. View Style Tab HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | ActivePresentation Designer The style of the menu bar is created with a custom template that is based on one of the pre-installed templates with a single change to adjust the position to be units from the top of the slide. View Tree Tab HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | PPT2HTML The PPT2HTML configuration was changed from one of the pre-installed templates as follows: 1.Base = Full Screen 2.Modified to delete the navigation table 3.Size changed to 940x705 (Wordpress width) View Template HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | PPT2HTML The PPT2HTML template had the following removed from the original template FullScreen.htm: :Prefs.PageTitle: :InfoComment: :Nav.Map: View Template Previous :Nav.LinksToAll: Next HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Advantages Because PPT2HTML converts your presentation to a set of images (read this image preloading FAQ), you can:image preloading FAQ 1)Design whatever you want in PowerPoint and display exactly the same thing on any browser. There’s no HTML coding, no CSS to understand. Just draw and publish! 2)Produce highly accessible presentations as required by academic and governmental institutions. 3)Build easily copyrighted sites because there is no text or separate images to be copied. 4)Design layouts with ease. 5)Use any font and never be restricted by the default Arial, Verdana type of limitation. 6)No server side scripting to learn to be able to build modular looking pages. 7)Very useful for simple sites or prototyping complex ones. 8)Flash is supported (see this FAQ) and JavaScript is supported (see this FAQ)see this FAQ Disadvantages For the same reason as in the advantages, the following is what you don’t get: 1)Optimised pages for narrow bandwidth Internet connections (but read this FAQ)but read this FAQ 2)PowerPoint animation engine is not supported but you can export builds as individual pages. 3)Styled hyperlinks are not supported. HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||

My Web Site Created using:  PowerPoint  ActivePresentation Designer  PPT2HTML Contact About Copyright 2011 © GMARK Ltd. | | Download If you’re interested in finding out more about how this micro-site was built, you can download the following packages: Trial version of ActivePresentation Designer Trial version of PPT2HTML PowerPoint file used in this demo HomeWire FrameTemplateThemeLayoutsActivePresentationPPT2HTMLAdvantagesDownload ||||||||