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OK, with a lot of help from this forum (for which many thanks), I've saved my
PPT pres as web pages and uploaded them to my website and it all works fine,
including the custom animations. I've even got it to go directly to a "show"
without losing my animations thanks to this page -
www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00428.htm. As an aside to any other beginners with
webservers like me, note that it matters that the FAQ in that url is in
capital letters. I think this is a Linux feature - ie abc is not the same as
ABC is not the same as Abc.

Anyway, the only thing that is really wrong with my web presentation is that
when the user clicks to go to the next slide, there is a white flash,
presumably due to the time taken to download the next slide from the web.
Then the next slide arrives fine, complete with transition.

Can I stop the white flash between the two slides? It's pretty unpleasant
for the user. I guess you will tell me to convert the presentation to flash,
but I would prefer not to in the short run.

Thanks
 
Only the spammers selling their poorly-reviewed conversion software will
tell you to convert to Flash. Hopefully, a non-automaton will give you a
better answer.
--David
 
OK, with a lot of help from this forum (for which many thanks), I've saved my
PPT pres as web pages and uploaded them to my website and it all works fine,
including the custom animations. I've even got it to go directly to a "show"
without losing my animations thanks to this page -
www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00428.htm. As an aside to any other beginners with
webservers like me, note that it matters that the FAQ in that url is in
capital letters. I think this is a Linux feature - ie abc is not the same as
ABC is not the same as Abc.
Click to expand...

Feature or bug, depending on which side of the Windows/*nix divide you grew up
on. But yes, you're absolutely right.
Anyway, the only thing that is really wrong with my web presentation is that
when the user clicks to go to the next slide, there is a white flash,
presumably due to the time taken to download the next slide from the web.
Then the next slide arrives fine, complete with transition.

Can I stop the white flash between the two slides? It's pretty unpleasant
for the user. I guess you will tell me to convert the presentation to flash,
but I would prefer not to in the short run.
Click to expand...

Not most of us, just the people with flash conversion software to flog. <g>

Do you have a publically visible URL where we could see the presentation?
 
I've actually moved it to a different host, where the "flashing" between
slides is much less (although still discernible). I guess it's a function of
the speed of the host server. Ideally, the next web page would download and
THEN the transition take place. Whatever, here is the temporary url:

http://anthonyrice.sigma.titaninternet.co.uk

It's not going directly to a "Show" anymore as I changed the pres and
haven't edited the relevant files yet.

One thing you will see is that the light blue band across the top is not
perfectly aligned with the main dark background. It is, however, in the
source PPT file. Can I do anything about this?

I've not even looked at this on other computers / browsers yet, so it may
look terrible to you in other ways.

Thanks again for any help.
 
One thing you might try is asking the users to go into full screen mode to view the
show. Here, it gives me a black rather than white b/g when I do this, so while
there's a "flash" of sorts, it's a lot less obnoxious.
 
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