How to publish your Power Point PPT presentation to the web?

I have been trying to publish some of my Power Points to the web for a while now, and I was looking for an easy and straight forward way to Export *.PPT files in to a web-friendly format.

In this short article I will explain the steps taken to publish my work to the Internet.

License:

Why do I want to publish my work? and to which purpose.

I used the Creative Commons License website to help me choose the License I wish to brand my work .

Web-Friendly Formats:

After looking at what others do to publish Slides, it comes down to some of those options:

• HTML static pages.
• HTML static pages with frames.
• PDF format .
• Flash SWF.
• *.PPT downloadable and locked file viewable with the free Power-Point viewer.

Tools:

My slides were in PowerPoint format. I tried using Power-point itself to export the slides into HTML, but the produced HTML is not compatible with the new-rising-star-Google-Chrome-browser.

After googling around for a solution, I find that most search results where in the direction of publishing Slides as PDF’s (which is not a bad option after all). Also found many free and shareware tools to perform only that function.

And finally found out that the best tool to do just what I need is  OpenOffice.

• It can read all Office documents.
• It has the default feature of export Office documents into PDF.
• Also it can export into HTML with many Features and customizations.
• Static HTML Frames publishing is also not-Chrome compliant.
• publish in dynamic web format ASP or PERL.
• And Even publish the Slides in *.SWF/Adobe Flash format, which is great.

For a complete list of my published material, go here.

My Final Output was as Follows:

• Static HTML with Frames.
• PDF Format.
• SWF file , and link it using this HTML

Conclusion:

• Use Creative Commons License website to determine the License you wish for your material.
• Open Office is a great tool to install after all (even if you own MS-Office).
• Offering the content in HTML, SWF and PDF is a guaranteed way to deliver content on the Internet.

Start Publishing.