WebPages or Powerpoint

[Roy Tennant]

For those of you who were confused by this message, allow me to explain 
that I had been responding to a query on another list, NETTRAIN, and then 
Walt responded to my comment on Web4Lib. This kind of list cross-over is 
not uncommon, but should be avoided. Thanks,
Roy

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Walt Howe wrote:

> <bold>At 01:34 PM 10/22/1997 -0400, Roy Tennant wrote:
> 
> >I exclusively use PowerPoint for presentations and the Web for demos.
> 
> >This is for several reasons:
> 
> >
> 
> >* I have never seen a Web-based presentation as impressive and readable
> as a
> 
> >PowerPoint presentation
> 
> >* As someone has already pointed out, doing a presentation in
> PowerPoint
> 
> >is trivial compared to doing it in HTML (even with templates).
> 
> >* Staging the appearance of your points is very difficult in HTML but
> 
> >(again) trivial in PowerPoint. This allows you to focus the audience's
> 
> >attention on what you're saying rather than on what you will be saying
> in
> 
> >a few moments.
> 
> >* With today's windowed operating systems, switching back and forth
> 
> >between a PowerPoint presentation and a demonstration via a Web 
> browser
> 
> >is very quick and easy.
> 
> >* Putting your PowerPoint presentation on the Web is now quite easy
> using
> 
> >Office 97.
> 
> >
> 
> >I say use the best tool for the job.
> 
> 
> I don't really disagree with Roy, but I do want to present another few
> reasons to favor an HTML presentation: 
> 
> 
> * I can write the HTML almost as fast as I can develop in PowerPoint, and
> the layout isn't bad. See my HTML presentation as part of a workshop at
> the Great Lakes Regional Library Conference in Milwaukee at
> <<http://www.delphi.com/pubweb/htmltraining/custmtng.html>. Ignore the
> additional navigation buttons and ads that go with the web site, which
> were not part of the original presentation.
> 
> * It takes much less disk space, if you have to carry it on a floppy
> disk.
> 
> * It takes much less time to download from the web on a slow connection,
> if one of your goals is to place it on the web anyway. PowerPoint
> converted to HTML shows the text as graphics, requiring slower
> downloads.
> 
> 
> All in all, this was the best tool for my job, because I intended to put
> it on the web, and I wanted to demonstrate the use of HTML for training,
> which is central to the theme of the session.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> </bold>
> 
> 
> 
>     Walt  <<http://people.delphi.com/walthowe>
>