The document outlines essential guidelines for creating effective presentations, focusing on idea clarity, information collection, content formatting, and design styling. It emphasizes the importance of knowing the audience, keeping slides structured with concise text, and utilizing appropriate templates and visuals. Tips for avoiding common pitfalls, such as excessive text and poor design choices, are also provided to enhance presentation quality.

1. Presentation Making Guidelines Key Points of Making Presentations Doncho Minkov Telerik Corporation www.telerik.com Technical Trainer

2. Table of Contents Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary

3. Clearing the Idea What to Include? What to Exclude?

4. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Clearing the Idea

5. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Write the topic Clearing the Idea Topic

6. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Write the topic Make more circles Clearing the Idea Smth Smth Smth Smth Topic

7. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Write the topic Make more circles Connect with the first Clearing the Idea Smth Smth Smth Smth Topic

8. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Write the topic Make more circles Connect with the first Select the most important circles Clearing the Idea Topic Smth Smth Smth Smth

9. Use mind mappings Draw a circle Write the topic Make more circles Connect with the first Select the most important circles Remove the rest Clearing the Idea Smth Smth Smth Topic

10. Presentation making Before Collect Mind mapping Research Clear the Idea Making Styling Arranging

11. Clearing the Idea (2) At the end you should have something like a Table of Contents Or at least a blueprint, something to begin with Mind mapping software FreeMind iMindMap Etc…

12. While Clearing the Idea Know your audience! Remember the complexity How detailed should it be?

13. Collecting the Information

14. Collecting the Information How to do it? Blogs Books Google Colleagues

15. Collecting the Information Live Demo

16. Getting Started

17. Getting Started What we have so far? Table of Contents ( mind map ) Bunch of materials

18. Getting Started You should make sure that your presentations are well structured, organized and consistent Not a random list of bullet points with no logical order

19. Formatting the Content How to Format the Information?

20. Key Principles Key principles of presentation creation Keep the sentences short Keep the text on slide small Use high contrast colors Use as large fonts as possible

21. Example of Bad Presentation Hello! My name is Doncho Minkov and today we will talk about HTML Fundamentals. We will see the basics of the H yper- T ext- M arkup L anguage and will explain what is a tag in HTML, the parts of a HTML document, and some of the tags…. <a> this is the tag 'a'. 'a' comes from anchor and this tag is used for redirecting from one HTML document to another… bla bla bla

22. Content Formatting Avoid &quot; all words slides &quot; Keep lines up to 7 (+/-2) for a slide Limit the bullet points to 4-8 Make text into bullet points Words

23. Content Formatting (2) When too much text on a slide The audience starts reading and not listening The audience could fall asleep Less flexible for the speaker

24. Arranging the Content Example of a bad slide This could be split into at least four bullet points (4 sentences) The title is not fully corresponding with the content

25. Arranging the Content Can be easily transformed in two slides

26. Styling of the Content What Background, Font and Colors to Use?

27. Use contrast background and foreground ! Dark background and light foreground? Light background and dark foreground? or

28. Example of a Badly Selected Background and Colors Can anything be seen? Hardly Image if the sun is lighting the screen This looks much better! But generally this background is too fancy

29. Font Contrast to the background Consistent Large Use common font faces Gives impression of professionalism

30. Example of a Badly Selected Font What if I choose such a Font? Does it look Good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? Does it look good? No it doesn't!

31. Avoid Fancy Colors! Sample text with different colors This is an example how not to use colors This is an example how not to use colors This is an example how not to use colors This is an example how not to use colors Sample text with non contrast colors This is an example how not to use colors This is an example how not to use colors This is an example how not to use colors

32. Using PPT Templates Build-In and Professional Templates

33. What is a PTT Template? This is a ready template for your presentations Defined font colors and faces Defined places for the titles, contents, etc. Defined background Etc. Sometimes it is a good idea to use templates Not all ready templates are good Spares you thinking of the right color They are made by designers

34. PowerPoint Templates There are some built-in templates But can also be downloaded from the web Examples of free PPT templates: http://www.presentationpoint.com/powerpoint-templates / http://www.templateswise.com /

35. Styling the Content Live Demo

36. Decorations It is Almost Over

37. What to decorate ? Title slides Contents slides In all empty places of the presentation

38. Final Touches (2) The pictures/images should not be random This only makes the presentation more distracting The pictures should be connected with the subject i.e. if the title is &quot; C# OOP &quot; Good picture is Bad picture is

39. Tips and Tricks Media, Animations

40. Animations? Very pretty So Shiny ! But Harmful Or may be… Takes time to make

41. Summary Clearing the Idea Collecting the Information Getting Started Formatting the Content Styling of the Content Using PPT Templates Decorations Tips and Tricks Summary

42. Presentation Making Guidelines