New York City Code Camp Presentation "Slides"

I’d like to thank attendees of the NYC Code Camp and those of you who attended my talk on ASP.NET and web standards.

This year I tried to do something a little different. Preparing for the presentation, I cut down on wording while thinking what visual would best go with each slide. The idea was to add a bit of emotion to each topic as opposed to turning it into a slide-reading exercise. This is why I thought imagery would help make the presentation more engaging. Kudos to Stock.XCHNG for being a fantastic source of inspiration (and royalty-free photography).

Speaking of slides, I don’t do PowerPoint. I don’t like PowerPoint. I’m sticking with Eric Meyer’s S5—an HTML/JavaScript/CSS slide show “system”.

If I may suggest to other speakers, please don’t use the mother-empire blue background with lots of bullet points. I seriously can’t keep myself awake in a room with darkened lights and dark slides, no matter how compelling the content is. This is why I picked a vibrant S5 theme, Flower.

The presentation is now online. If DOCTYPEs and print style sheets sounded new to you, please see these two articles:

• What’s In Your DOCTYPE?
• Make Every Web Page Printer-Friendly