yes my question might have been a bit vague lol.
as for now they haven't asked about video,sound or animations.
but moving forward I know I'm gonna have to visit those.
I was thinking if overall there was a file size for web publishing PPTs
where it goes from good to ok to (stop trying to make PPT like flash LOL)
it has to be compatible with IE 6.x maybe stretching it back down to 5.x
our problem is we deal with retirement benifits. and well retirees aren't
too computer savy. I'm sure there are people in the world using dial up still
*gasp* (The D word.)
Here's my thoughts.
sounds files (must be 8 bit mono, not to exceed 96kbps)
And if you're dealing with people on dia..scusi... D-word ... setups, the sound
may still take a while to come down the pipe, and of course won't play until it's
downloaded. Sometimes it's wise to include a note on the slide letting the user
know that it might take a few seconds, be patient.
Movies (mpeg1,mpeg2) no rm or .mov files mpegs will open in whatever their
browser setting are.
Movies get even trickier. Even MPGs won't open on all systems, for one thing, and
they're always linked. For a web presentation, that may mean that the link points
to the movie file on your HDD, even when I'm viewing it as HTML on your web
server/my computer. This, as you can imagine, is not useful. Testing's in order.
You may need to do some manual html editing.
Animations (insert your thoughts here)
They tend to be herkyjerky and slow in browsers, is my experience. Simple
builds/reveals should be no problem, but I'd skip the motion path stuff.
show setup VML for images. resolution not to exceed 640x480
overall file size not to exceed (10MB)?
Overall file size isn't such a big deal, since the presentation is effectively
broken up into a series of html files that don't get downloaded until the user
clicks to view them. Smaller = Better. There's that D-word thing again.
There are also third party products that enable you to do a number of useful
things, from making cleaner/more controllable HTML to converting the entire
presentation to a single flash file; not always a bad thing, that.
