Creating presentations and impressing the audience is an important task for people who work as software professionals, marketers, public speakers, or anyone who is familiar with computer-related work. Online presentation creation applications are gaining much more popularity over conventional desktop-based software applications in the recent years. impress.js is a powerful library that eases the task of creating presentations with smooth animations without depending on a software tool. You are no longer limited to desktop tools as these presentations run on any supported browser anywhere on the Internet.
This book consists of several practical real-world examples which go beyond the conventional slide-based presentations covering each aspect of the impress library. A wide range of applications such as content sliders, image galleries, awesome presentations, and complete websites are created throughout the book explaining the techniques in a way that even a beginner can understand.
Understanding how different features work is something we need to know as developers or designers in order to tweak the core library and create our own customizations. Important sections of the impress.js core code are explained in detail with practical examples to make it easier for you to implement new features and enhance impress.js.
By the time you are done with this book, you'll be able to create a wide range of components for websites using impress.js as well as stunning visualizations to impress your audience.
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Impressive Presentations, provides an introduction to presentations with impress.js and its importance. We also create a basic impress presentation with detailed code explanations.
Chapter 2, Exploring Impress Visualization Effects, discusses the in-depth usage of impress effects such as positioning, scaling, and rotating using practical real-world examples. impress.js core code is also discussed in detail to understand the implementation of CSS effects.
Chapter 3, Diving into the Core of impress.js, is focused on discussing impress.js configurations and the core code required for simplifying customizations to existing features. Usage of impress API, step events, and keyboard configurations is explained using advanced presentations.
Chapter 4, Presenting on Different Viewports, explores the use of impress presentation fullscreen, inside a container and mobile devices. Fully functional content slider is created to explain the wide range of uses for impress presentations. Mobile device support and the handling of presentations on different devices is explained in detail throughout this chapter.
Chapter 5, Creating Personal Websites, acts as a complete guide to creating personal websites using impress.js. A single page website is developed with commonly-used techniques in web design.
Chapter 6, Troubleshooting, covers the compatibility of impress presentations and the necessary information to fix bugs and get support for issues in impress.js. Limitations and possible future enhancements are explained to motivate you to implement your own features for impress.js.
Appendix, Impress Tools and Resources, guides you through the available impress.js presentation automation tools and some awesome presentations available online.
This book assumes that the readers are familiar with the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also, you will need the following things in order to work with this book:
An Internet connection (to load external libraries and fonts in the demo files)
Code editor
impress.js compatible browser
This book is for anyone who is interested in impressing their audience with stunning online presentations without depending on software applications. The main focus will be for the web designers and developers who are familiar with technical stuff. impress.js is a powerful presentation creation library using CSS transforms, so readers are expected to have the basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge for creating impressive presentations.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can use the data-rotate-x attribute to rotate elements around the x axis."
A block of code is set as follows:
$(document).ready(function(){
document.addEventListener
("impress:stepenter", function (event) {
// Code for step enter
}, false);
document.addEventListener
("impress:stepleave", function (event) {
// Code for step leave
}, false);
});When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
$(document).ready(function(){
document.addEventListener
("impress:stepenter", function (event) {
// Code for step enter
}, false);
document.addEventListener
("impress:stepleave", function (event) {
// Code for step leave
}, false);
});New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "We can go to the overview of the presentation using the Overview button".
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