Website Check, Please

[CarolT]

I don't know if this is proper protocol to ask, but after countless hours
and a lot of help from you guys, (PP is not my strong suit), I finally got a
slide show up on my web page (I think). I would appreciate it if any of you
could check it out, see if it is working properly, and offer polite
criticism if improvement needed. http://www.houseinwheatridge.com, click on
slide show in the nav bar, and I placed directions there that I thought
would work according to your suggestions. Works fine on my machine, but
still don't know if the viewer has to have PP in able to view it. Thanks
for all your help and the few hairs left on my head I have not torn out yet.
CarolT

 

[Guest]

works for me (aol)

 

[Michael Koerner]

Carol;

The viewer does not have to have PowerPoint to view your presentation, just
a web browser. Looks good to me. the only thing I would like to see changed
is when you go Full Screen (button bottom right) the automatic transition
times for the slides seems rather quick I would change the transition times
to allow a little longer viewing.

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|I don't know if this is proper protocol to ask, but after countless hours
| and a lot of help from you guys, (PP is not my strong suit), I finally got
a
| slide show up on my web page (I think). I would appreciate it if any of
you
| could check it out, see if it is working properly, and offer polite
| criticism if improvement needed. http://www.houseinwheatridge.com, click
on
| slide show in the nav bar, and I placed directions there that I thought
| would work according to your suggestions. Works fine on my machine, but
| still don't know if the viewer has to have PP in able to view it. Thanks
| for all your help and the few hairs left on my head I have not torn out
yet.
| CarolT
|
|

 

[CarolT]

Thanks so much for all your help. CarolT

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I don't know if this is proper protocol to ask, but after countless hours
and a lot of help from you guys, (PP is not my strong suit), I finally got a
slide show up on my web page (I think). I would appreciate it if any of you
could check it out, see if it is working properly, and offer polite
criticism if improvement needed. http://www.houseinwheatridge.com, click on
slide show in the nav bar, and I placed directions there that I thought
would work according to your suggestions. Works fine on my machine, but
still don't know if the viewer has to have PP in able to view it.

It's HTML, not PowerPoint files so PPT/Viewer isn't necessary.

It doesn't work at all in the Opera browser and may not work well in other
non-MSIE browsers, but you do make it clear that MSIE4 or better's suggested.
The weirdos who use other browsers are used to dealing with this stuff (aren't
we, folks?)

Here, in MSIE, I get a brief glimpse of the three-pane version then it
self-launches into a fullscreen show. Problem with that is that the photos
download a bit slowly and the timing's fairly quick; result:

White screen for a couple seconds, photo pops on; almost immediately advances
to next slide (another white screen).

I think I'd let it come up in the normal view OR if you want it to be full
screen, give the user forward and back buttons on the slide so they can control
the pace.


Thanks

 

[Mike M.]

It doesn't work at all in the Opera browser and may not work well in other

non-MSIE browsers, but you do make it clear that MSIE4 or better's suggested.
The weirdos who use other browsers are used to dealing with this stuff (aren't
we, folks?)

Well Steve-o, Opera is the new AOL. <g> Didn't work for me in Firefox.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Well Steve-o, Opera is the new AOL. <g>

FOUL! LOW BLOW!!! That was HARSH.

Yeah, and serves you right.

;-)

 

[Echo S]

self-launches into a fullscreen show. Problem with that is that the
photos
download a bit slowly and the timing's fairly quick; result:

White screen for a couple seconds, photo pops on; almost immediately
advances
to next slide (another white screen).

It doesn't self-launch for me, so I suspect Carol has already changed that.

I see a note saying some pix may take time to load -- that helps, but Carol,
can you increase the timings a little? I like not having to press a forward
button to move to the next slide (and besides, I can do that on the previous
page), but because of the delay loading the pix, they end up not being on
the screen very long at all. It just needs a couple extra seconds here.

I think making the images smaller (talking smaller file size, if possible)
might help.

 

[CarolT]

Thanks. I did try the manual advance choice, but still got the white screen
before each slide anyway, so went back to the automatic forwarding. I added
two seconds per slide. I will make additional notes. My photos on the
other pages on that site are in gifs, saved as indexed color rather than RGB
in Photoshop, so they will load faster. Would that work here? Thanks
again. I'm learning a lot!

self-launches into a fullscreen show. Problem with that is that the
photos
download a bit slowly and the timing's fairly quick; result:

White screen for a couple seconds, photo pops on; almost immediately
advances
to next slide (another white screen).

It doesn't self-launch for me, so I suspect Carol has already changed
that.

I see a note saying some pix may take time to load -- that helps, but
Carol, can you increase the timings a little? I like not having to press a
forward button to move to the next slide (and besides, I can do that on
the previous page), but because of the delay loading the pix, they end up
not being on the screen very long at all. It just needs a couple extra
seconds here.

I think making the images smaller (talking smaller file size, if possible)
might help.

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Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

 

[Echo S]

Others can probably tell us with more confidence, but I believe
index-colored GIFs should load faster.

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PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

Thanks. I did try the manual advance choice, but still got the white
screen before each slide anyway, so went back to the automatic forwarding.
I added two seconds per slide. I will make additional notes. My photos
on the other pages on that site are in gifs, saved as indexed color rather
than RGB in Photoshop, so they will load faster. Would that work here?
Thanks again. I'm learning a lot!

self-launches into a fullscreen show. Problem with that is that the
photos
download a bit slowly and the timing's fairly quick; result:

White screen for a couple seconds, photo pops on; almost immediately
advances
to next slide (another white screen).

It doesn't self-launch for me, so I suspect Carol has already changed
that.

I see a note saying some pix may take time to load -- that helps, but
Carol, can you increase the timings a little? I like not having to press
a forward button to move to the next slide (and besides, I can do that on
the previous page), but because of the delay loading the pix, they end up
not being on the screen very long at all. It just needs a couple extra
seconds here.

I think making the images smaller (talking smaller file size, if
possible) might help.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

 

[Michael Koerner]

Along with what Echo says, your going to get a white screen however long it
takes for the viewing computer to download the image. If there were an easy
way to make it a streaming presentation this would go away.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| Thanks. I did try the manual advance choice, but still got the white
screen
| before each slide anyway, so went back to the automatic forwarding. I
added
| two seconds per slide. I will make additional notes. My photos on the
| other pages on that site are in gifs, saved as indexed color rather than
RGB
| in Photoshop, so they will load faster. Would that work here? Thanks
| again. I'm learning a lot!
|
| | > | >
| >> self-launches into a fullscreen show. Problem with that is that the
| >> photos
| >> download a bit slowly and the timing's fairly quick; result:
| >>
| >> White screen for a couple seconds, photo pops on; almost immediately
| >> advances
| >> to next slide (another white screen).
| >
| > It doesn't self-launch for me, so I suspect Carol has already changed
| > that.
| >
| > I see a note saying some pix may take time to load -- that helps, but
| > Carol, can you increase the timings a little? I like not having to press
a
| > forward button to move to the next slide (and besides, I can do that on
| > the previous page), but because of the delay loading the pix, they end
up
| > not being on the screen very long at all. It just needs a couple extra
| > seconds here.
| >
| > I think making the images smaller (talking smaller file size, if
possible)
| > might help.
| >
| > --
| > Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
| > Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
| > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
| > PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com
| >
|
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks. I did try the manual advance choice, but still got the white screen
before each slide anyway, so went back to the automatic forwarding. I added
two seconds per slide. I will make additional notes. My photos on the
other pages on that site are in gifs, saved as indexed color rather than RGB
in Photoshop, so they will load faster. Would that work here?

Try it both ways and compare the file sizes. The smaller the file, the faster
the load time, no two ways about it.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Along with what Echo says, your going to get a white screen however long it
takes for the viewing computer to download the image. If there were an easy
way to make it a streaming presentation this would go away.

Heh ... that's why we built a cute feature into PPT2HTML ... it allows you to
reference the image for slide N+1 in the HTML for slide N. That way it's
downloading the image for the next slide while you're still studying the
current slide.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Your absolutely correct, I should have remembered that.




| > Along with what Echo says, your going to get a white screen however long
it
| > takes for the viewing computer to download the image. If there were an
easy
| > way to make it a streaming presentation this would go away.
|
| Heh ... that's why we built a cute feature into PPT2HTML ... it allows you
to
| reference the image for slide N+1 in the HTML for slide N. That way it's
| downloading the image for the next slide while you're still studying the
| current slide.
|
|
|
| -----------------------------------------
| Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
| PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
| PPTools: www.pptools.com
| ================================================
|
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Your absolutely correct, I should have remembered that.

Nah, that's my job. ;-)

 

[Michael Koerner]

I know, but isn't it everyone's job here to make everyone's life easier
;-o))




| > Your absolutely correct, I should have remembered that.
|
| Nah, that's my job. ;-)
|
| >
| > | > | In article <uKghwl#[email protected]>, Michael Koerner
wrote:
| > | > Along with what Echo says, your going to get a white screen however
long
| > it
| > | > takes for the viewing computer to download the image. If there were
an
| > easy
| > | > way to make it a streaming presentation this would go away.
| > |
| > | Heh ... that's why we built a cute feature into PPT2HTML ... it allows
you
| > to
| > | reference the image for slide N+1 in the HTML for slide N. That way
it's
| > | downloading the image for the next slide while you're still studying
the
| > | current slide.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | -----------------------------------------
| > | Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
| > | PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
| > | PPTools: www.pptools.com
| > | ================================================
| > |
| > |
| >
|
| -----------------------------------------
| Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
| PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
| PPTools: www.pptools.com
| ================================================
|
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I know, but isn't it everyone's job here to make everyone's life easier
;-o))

That's a concept I can live with.

Trash pickup's on Thursdays, new paint for the house trim's on the shelf in the
basement, ladder's out back. Let me know when you finish up, I'll have more
ideas by then. ;-)

 

[Michael Koerner]

Virtual trash removal and house painting. that is a novelty. Will have to
hone my non programming skills for this one. ;-o)))



| > I know, but isn't it everyone's job here to make everyone's life easier
| > ;-o))
| >
|
| That's a concept I can live with.
|
| Trash pickup's on Thursdays, new paint for the house trim's on the shelf
in the
| basement, ladder's out back. Let me know when you finish up, I'll have
more
| ideas by then. ;-)
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Virtual trash removal and house painting. that is a novelty. Will have to
hone my non programming skills for this one. ;-o)))

A virtual kitty-litter removal algorith would be a millionaire-maker!

 

[CarolT]

It's actually easy. You merely take photos of your trash and your unpainted
house, put them in photoshop, and remove all the defects. Why do you think
my house looks so tidy on my web page? BTW, anyone want to buy a house a
the foot of the beautiful Rocky Mountains? CarolT