iSpring Free – Flash Presentations for Free in PowerPoint

I recently did a project for a client who asked me to put a PowerPoint presentation on their website.  Of course this is straightforward thing to do, however, for practical reasons, you don’t want to do it!  Unless your PowerPoint presentation is just a few slides but even then there is a better way.

The problem with using PowerPoint is twofold:

(1) PowerPoint files are typically just too large to view online making them very slooo000ow to load and;

(2) not all users have PowerPoint.  Of course most business users do have PowerPoint you say and if they don’t they can download the PowerPoint Viewer but that is getting too technical.  Also, the real problem is the large file size/slow loading time of a typical PowerPoint presentation.

A better way is to use iSpring Free (http://free.ispringsolutions.com/) from iSpring Solutions, Inc.  It installs as an Add-In right into PowerPoint.  As a bonus, it also makes it very easy to insert a Flash Object or YouTube video into a presentation.  After completing your PowerPoint presentation you simply Publish it as a Flash video (.swf).  Flash is a better choice anyday.

As an example, this client’s PowerPoint presentation was only 18 slides and was about 13.5 MB in size.  After converting it to Flash, it was about 1 MB in size.  The difference was very noticeable on the website too.  The Flash presentation loaded essentially immediately.  The PowerPoint presentation took so long some people thought their web browser was hung!

Using iSpring Free saves you a bundle over buying Adobe Flash (http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html) and is way easier to use for the typical business end-user who already “knows” PowerPoint.

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