Introduction

This slide maker generates HTML files with the official layout approved by w3m.

It works under UNIX and Windows:

• offline -- while you are thinking about your presentation on the plane
• online -- if you had the time to write it before leaving :)

It is easy, it is nice, it uses style sheets, please use it.

The upgrade procedure is very simple, so feel free to report improvements and bugs to stephan@w3.org

Download the software

The same package runs on UNIX or Windows (95 or NT).
For offline work grab the archive you need

• Windows: sm-win.zip
• UNIX: sm-unix.tgz

You can also make your slides online in the directory /afs/w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks/

Installation and upgrade

OffLine work:

Unzip the file to your C:\ directory for instance.
This will create 3 directories:
C:\Talks\Tools\   C:\Talks\Icons\   C:\Talks\YYMMsub\

You will put all your presentations in directories under C:\Talks. If we ever change the layout of the official presentations, the upgrade will be as simple as updating your C:\Talks\Tools with the files in /afs/w3/org/pub/WWW/Talks/Tools

OnLine work:

You can go to the next step. The upgrade will be transparent.

Procedure overview

To make your presentation you will need to follow these steps:

• setup the directory that will contain your new presentation
• edit the Makefile parameters (talk title, author name, author URL, font size)
• write the text of your presentation in a file named all.htm
• run the script to build your slides
• give your presentation
• update the web space if necessary

Setup the new directory

To make a new presentation just copy the directory C:\Talks\YYMMsub\ with all its files to another with an appropriate name including the year, month and subject of your talk (eg C:\Talks\9612newlogo).

If you make your slides online, the directory to copy is /afs/w3/org/pub/WWW/Talks/YYMMsub/

We will call this new directory YYMMsub/ in the following.

Edit the Makefile parameters

On Windows edit YYMMsub/make.bat, on UNIX edit YYMMsub/Makefile to change the following parameters:

• TITLE: title of the talk, appears on the table of contents, and on the title bar of the browser
• AUTHOR: name of the author, appears on the footnote
• AUTHOR_URL: link on the author's name, can be left blank ("").
• FONTSIZE: to change the font size of your slides (1<x<7)

Write the text of your presentation

Edit and modify the HTML file YYMMsub/all.htm to write the text of your presentation. Each top level header (H1) will be the title of a slide.

YYMMsub/all.htm will be used to generate the slides. This HTML file can be written with your favourite HTML editor. Here is the one used to build the slides you are reading now.

Run the script

To build the slides just type make in your directory YYMMsub/ (from a DOS box if you are using Windows)

The script will generate an YYMMsub/overview.htm and YYMMsub/slide*.htm files.

You can modify your file YYMMsub/all.htm and rebuild your slides as much as you want.

Give your presentation

You can either use Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer to give your presentation.

As the generated slides use style sheets, the layout will be better (today) in Internet Explorer.

Upload your slides to the Web space

If you have made your presentation offline, it is a good idea to put it on the web in the directory /afs/w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks.

Just copy your directory C:\Talks\YYMMsub\ there, and link your presentation from your area or http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Talks/Overview.html