Microsoft PowerPoint 1C: Kiosk Demo, Hyperlink to Slide

• Kiosk presentations can be set up on an individual computer workstation in which a customer, client, patient, or student can view a presentation individually and even click on various components, (similiar to a web page, but with many special effects available)

Often professional graphic designers are hired to put together a presentation of images and text and create special effects like fading and out certain elements on the page.

• Photo and graphic design programs (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Draw etc. can be used to create sophisticated images that can be incorporated into a presentation)
• Stock photography is a collection of images taken by professional photographers that you can purchase on-line for as little as a few dollars for a picture or up to hundreds of dollars for a picture.
• Why would you pay for an image when you can copy images from the Internet for free?
  • It is illegal to use images from other sites for business purposes (e.g. pamphlets, company web page, kiosk presentation at place of business etc.)
  • Copying an image for personal use or for the use in an educational assignment is not illegal

  Note: don't increase images beyond its original size as it will become blurry (you may however decrease the size of an image)

Multi-media video clips for elaborate presentations may also be added which can be done by professional film/video producers and editors

• Once a multi-media file has been saved on your computer you click on Insert tab and press the Movie (or Sound) button

In addition to this a voice and music may be added to the presentation, often disc-jockeys from radio stations are utilized for a professional voice over.

You can create hyperlinks in a powerpoint presentation that when clicked on will:

• Go to the next, last, previous or last slide in a presentation or go to a specified slide
• Open the browser and go to a specified Internet web page

Hyperlinks can be triggered by:

• Clicking on the text, button, or image (clip art or photo image)
• Alternatively you can specify that a when the curser is placed over an object the hyperlink will be triggered without having to actually press on it

Converting a PowerPoint slide presentation to a web page

• You can save a slide presentation as a web page, it will automatically be converted to HTML (web page language), however some of the functions that are created in the original presentation may be lost on the conversion
  • When in any PowerPoint presentation you can Save as / Other Formats / then change the type to Web Page to see how the file is translated, however you may not get the results you want as it is better to utilize programs specifically suited for web page design (e.g. Dreamweaver)

Keep it neat: rulers and gridlines

• Professional presentations have a consistant placement of objects and text, they are ligned up neatly (e.g. if you have a large image on one slide and another large image on the next slide they should have a consistant placement)
• Rulers and Gridlines can be made visable on the PowerPoint slide so that you can see where to line up images (click on View tab and press the Ruler and Gridline button).

PowerPoint limitations

• PowerPoint is best suited for presentations that flow from slide 1 to 2 to the end, however it may be used for an interactive kiosk if a more advanced program is unavailable (where a user may click on slide 4 then 2 and then back on 4 etc.)
• There are other multimedia software applications (e.g. Macromedia etc. ) which may offer more sophisticated options
• One issue with PowerPoint kioks is that normally once a custom animation has been run through on a slide it won't run through again if that slide is clicked on again unless the slide show is started again from the beginning

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