5 ways to put PowerPoint presentation on the Web

Want to share your original and creative presentations with others all over the world? Putting PowerPoint presentation on Web sounds like a good idea. Especially in this era of the Internet on which everyone can view various resources using their computers.

Here are 5 ways to put PowerPoint presentation on the web. Each method has its pros and cons.

Method 1 Upload and link PowerPoint File directly

Yes, you could just upload PowerPoint file to your website and link to it. The Visitors click and download the file to view the presentation on your computer.

Cons

Visitors should download the presentation before viewing.
Visitors should install PowerPoint app or PowerPoint viewer to view it.
The presentation file can have a large file.

Pro

Simply upload the presentation to your website and link to it.

Share your presentation with all animations and special effects.

Method 2 Share presentation of Slideshare.net

Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. Think of it as something like YouTube for presentations. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS or POT formats to Slideshare and are converted into shared media.

Cons

All the animations, multimedia presentation will disappear.

Pro

The presentation can be viewed on any computer.

Method 3 Publish as HTML web page

PowerPoint lets you save your presentation as HTML, as a web page (Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, then click Web Page "Save as type" pull-down menu).

Cons

Each slide is saved as a separate image, with its own page, so you have to load an entire folder of files on your server.
It will not be displayed properly for website visitors who do not use IE.

Free open source software can be a strong choice in this case. OpenOffice Impress, PowerPoint look-alike OpenOffice.org, lets you create a PPT presentation from scratch, and you can also convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to HTML in a form that is compatible with a wider range of browsers.

Method 4 Flash it using Wondershare PPT2Flash

Actually, OpenOffice even offers to export your presentation as a Flash (SWF) Flash format, but animations will disappear.

Wondershare PPT2Flash (http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html # 110), a PowerPoint add-in allows you to convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash with one click.

3 steps to convert your presentation to Flash:
Download and install PPT2Flash -> Import PowerPoint presentation -> Click "Publish" to convert.

Pro

Has up to 90% reduction in file size after conversion.
Flash can be displayed properly on any computer.
The conversion retains all hyperlinks, animations, multimedia files in the presentation.
Flash is difficult to change.

Method 5 Record it with Camtasia Studio

Comtasia download and install on your computer and follow the instructions below.
Step 1, save the file in PPT PPS formats.
Step 2, Set Camtasia studio to record the entire screen.
Step 3, Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press F9 to start recording the screen.
Step 4, when you reach the blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the presentation captured, so choose a directory and enter the file name.
Step 5, save your capture in SWF format.

Cons

It will be a bit 'of time if there are many slides in your presentation.
The best way to publish your presentation on Web

If you want to make animated and protected presentation on Web in minutes, converting PowerPoint to Flash using Wondershare PPT2Flash sounds very elegant!

Viewing a Flash movie on the web is often as easy as loading the SWF file to your web space and using a few lines of object / embed code (http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp) to embed the file on your page.

Camtasia can record the screen and the sound when your play your PowerPoint, but should pay $ 299 for purchase that is greater than PPT2Flash ($ 59.95). For Mac users, you can upload the presentation slideshare.net. If you want to create static presentation on web, using OpenOffice to export your presentation to HTML or Flash would be best.

Hope you can use these 5 methods to share your presentation on web easily. Of course, if you have other good methods, please let me know. Thank you! ......