Using Free Web Designs

By Scot Hacker
Published May 21, 2008 in Web Development

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Sections

  1. Introduction
  2. Types of Templates
  3. Skeletal Designs
  4. Complete Pre-Packaged Web Designs
  5. Designs Built Into Adobe Dreamweaver
  6. Designs for Content Management Systems
  7. Our Sample HTML+CSS Template
  8. Related Links

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Comments

1) Milan Andric, June 29, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. [Link]

Slideshows are great, but what we really need is a standards based slideshow that supports audio as well. The only things I've seen are soundslides and slideshow pro, both of which produce swf files. I've searched far and wide and have come up empty on finding standards based slideshow software that supports audio. You would think all the slideshow developers would have caught on to this by now and added some type of support for it?

2) Scot Hacker, October 28, 2008 at 2:40 p.m. [Link]

I recently learned about a really nice open source HTML-based slideshow option created by the W3C itself: Slidy

http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1)

It does not do audio directly, but since each slide is an HTML document, you could certainly insert audio manually per-page.

Not as polished as commercial stuff, but it's free and quite flexible. And nice to have your slideshows completely web-based -- no more hoping PowerPoint or Keynote is already installed on the presenter's laptop where you'll be speaking, etc.

And of course this is more of a presentation tool than a multimedia slideshow tool. There are a lot of free slideshow apps out there - some are javascript based, some are PHP based, some are Flash-based... Here are a bunch I've bookmarked over time.

http://delicious.com/shacker/slideshow

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