The document provides guidelines for making effective presentations. It discusses clearing the idea by using mind mapping to organize content, collecting relevant information from sources like the internet and colleagues, and getting started by creating an outline. It also covers formatting content with principles like using large fonts and short sentences, styling the content with consistent fonts and high contrast colors, using templates to save time on design, and adding appropriate decorations and media. The document emphasizes structuring the presentation logically and keeping the audience engaged.

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

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. Clearing the Idea
 Use mind mappings
1. Draw a circle

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

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

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

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

9. Clearing the Idea
 Use mind mappings
1. Draw a circle
2. Write the topic Smth
3. Make more circles Topic
4. Connect with the first
Smth
5. Select the most important circles
6. Remove the rest Smth

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

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

13. Collecting the Information

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

15. Collecting the
Information
Live Demo

16. Getting Started

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

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

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 Hyper-Text-Markup Language
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. Avoid "all words slides"
Words
Make text into bullet points
Content Formatting
Keep lines up to 7 (+/-2) for a slide
Limit the bullet points to 4-8

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

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

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!
or
Dark background and Light background and
light foreground? dark foreground?

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. Consistent Large
Font
Contrast to the Use common
background 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?
Do e s i t l o o k g o o d ?

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. Title slides
Contents slides
What to decorate?
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 "C# OOP"
Good picture is Bad picture is

39. Tips and Tricks
Media, Animations

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

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
Questions?