S5

• An implementation of Eric Meyer's S5 project
• For more information on that see: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
• A simple way of implementing browser based slide shows in Plone
• All credit goes to Eric, any blame for this version should come to me.
  

Installing

• As per any standard Plone product
• Unpack into the Products directory, restart Plone, then install from the Add/Remove Products directory inside portal_setup
• Then add in a document, you'll see a little red icon in the document icons
• This will take you to the S⁵ presentation of that peice of content

How it works

• Write a document in Plone, using H1's or headings to seperate your slides.
• This example was written in Plone using Epoz.
• You can also write in STX or reSTX, anything that produces H1's in HTML
• Then click on the S⁵ icon and bingo you'll see a slide show. It chops each of the H1's into seperate slides, placing the paragraphs under the tags inside the slide itself

Skins

• By default there are three skins that come with this product:

• the stock skin from Eric's site
• a nice blue theme from Eric's site (default)
• an Enfold Systems skin I use for work

• Each theme is a layer (the enfold one is registered but not installed), if you look in the portal_skins > layers, you'll see them there. To have the stock skin be the default, move it up a layer.
• To have your own new layer to be the default, make a layer and put it at the top and hey why not contribute to the project? Check it in.

Comments

• More the merrier, please check in and thank Eric for a cool peice of code and give him some credit.
• Licensed under the same as Eric's stuff Creative Commons Share Alike.
• To do?
• Building a presentation by doing a folder would be nice, pulls all images, links etc into presentation
• Code highlighting using SilverCity would be cool, since I do a lot of code talks.
• More templates
• Make the button a JS drop down where you select theme?
  
• Andy McKay, Enfold Systems | Vancouver Jan 19 2004