MonadLUG Notes, 12-Oct-1007: Ben Scott presents DNS and BIND

[Ted Roche]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> 
> So, is there a better way to author S5 than being really, really careful
> while writing XHTML by hand and using an XHTML validator a lot?
> 

I would think an editor that "knows about" XHTML so that it creates the
</li> when you create the <li> tag would help a lot. I mostly hand-code
my HTML (I know, how last century!), so I'm used to it.

I think Ben ran into so much trouble because he was working from an
older batch of text and transmogrified it to HTML. Writing from scratch
using the supplied templates eliminates most of the problems. I just
validated the CSS slideshow I'm working up for next month, and it took a
couple of tweak (adding slashes at the end of IMG tags, for example) to
get it compliant. Still in beta, but visible at:

http://www.tedroche.com/Present/2007/css/css.html

> I'm thinking about using S5 for an upcoming MerriLUG presentation but if
> it is a pain to author I might just stick with PowerPoint (yeah,
> PowerPoint on Mac OSX for a presentation on FOSS software (Python) to a
> Linux UG, spare me the comments...)

The advantages I see to S5 is that you can post the content directly to
a web site and viewers do not need special software to view it, it's
lighter in terms of bandwidth, and more easily fed to the search engines.

Failing this, perhaps OpenOffice.org Impress to develop the presentation
and PDF output is second-best.

But PowerPoint? PowerPoint kills, man. (Well, PowerPoint doesn't kill
people. People using PowerPoint kill people. But, still...)

P.S. You might take a look at Google Present if you've got a free Google
Apps account. Similar in concept to S5.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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