Dec 05 2008
Reasons Why We Dig the Web 2.0 PowerPoint Presentations
Many popular web sites nowadays are certainly following a new look which is known to us as Web 2.0. Because one of the main features of Web 2.0 is for the site to have bright-colored gradients and buttons with rounded corners, most web designers dig this kind of style. A Web 2.0 web site looks clean and sizes of the files are small. Even online PowerPoint presentations can be accessed and shared through Web 2.0’s products namely: Zoho Show and SlideShare. During the past, presentations using the PowerPoint were
hard to access in an Internet browser. For many years, leading vendors such Adobe and Microsoft are attempting to make use of the Internet so that all of their products are so-called Internet-ready. However, all their attempts have failed.
Reasons why PowerPoint presentations were needed for the Web 2.0
A lot of us are already familiar with PowerPoint presentations and may even have created these kinds of
presentations perhaps for a couple of times now. Because the PowerPoint’s usefulness among people who mostly use the computer technology to present their reports in PowerPoint presentations, it made them think that it would even be more useful if they are available on the Web. Creating and presenting presentations on the Web would provide the users more freedom, creativity and productivity.
Today most sites such as ThinkFree, Zoho, and few others have done a good job indeed of replicating the desktop applications in the Web. Since most of us are already aware of how to manipulate the controls of a PowerPoint, it really seemed a good idea to clone this type of tool for easy management and usage. Users would then immediately adapt to an environment that looks like the one they were acquainted with.
Advantages of Web 2.0 PowerPoint presentations
Wouldn’t it be more fun to create presentations on the Web? That’s what web developers thought in the past too. A user could put a lot of interesting things found on the Web and be able to post them on his/her presentation. Creating a presentation on the Web provides more freedom on the user’s side. With billions of interesting things that could be found on the Internet, no doubt a user may simply post any one of them so he/she could construct the presentation that’s different from what presentations are known as of today.
Web 2.0 PowerPoint presentations today
With the advances made on the computer technology, even the enterprise market is starting to adopt Web 2.0 applications, PowerPoint presentations included. This event even made the Web to accelerate its innovation over the desktop. Years ago, never would an enterprise trust its data to be posted on the Web. Not until today. Over the years, most people have agreed that a new kind of Web presentation tool is what we need. This Internet application should be capable of presenting dynamic and multimedia content – meaning it should present rich content.
While the saying “content is king” on the Web is still very true, Web 2.0 PowerPoint presentations are one of the few tools on the Web that could allow the content to be presented in a more interesting way. The Web today is different from the Web of the past. However, Web content actually didn’t change much. The main difference is that a lot of applications have surfaced that allowed Web content to be presented in easier ways.
Here is where this lesson ends for today. We really hope you enjoyed this lesson too.
You will receive the next lesson in 7 days. Next week’s lesson will have the following title:
“Web 2.0: User Experience at New Heights”
Copyright(C) 2008 by John Delavera & Reimund Lube
