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We’ve made it easier than ever to add videos to your presentations. Learn all about it here: http://slides.com/news/video
Turn any content into a presentation using the new Define API! 🚀🛠 https://slides.com/developers#define-api
Now you can rotate elements in the Slides editor. Just grab a corner and drag 🙌 http://slides.com/news/rotation
Now you can use custom fonts from Typekit and Google Fonts in your presentations! http://slides.com/news/custom-fonts
Since our launch, Slides has been an amazing place to create, share, and live present presentations. Today, we’re excited to publicly unveil the top-most requested feature on Slides: shared editing of presentations, what we’re calling Collaborate.
With Collaborate on Slides, we’ve made it incredibly easy to work together with others. All a collaborator needs is a free Slides account (they’ll be prompted to sign up if they don’t yet have one) and a web browser.
As the presentation owner, you have full control over how others can access your presentation. When inviting a collaborator, you assign them a role — to view and comment, edit, or have access to invite others, too. You can also revoke access at any time.
Comments are made on the active slide, so the context is tracked and browsable. There is also a master comment thread showing the entire conversation. If there are new comments while a collaborator is offline, they are caught up via an email summary.
With Collaborate, it’s easy for everyone to follow along in real-time and instantly provide feedback, saving lots of time in the process.
Available now
To give Collaborate a try, sign in to your Slides account, open a presentation in the editor and press the Collaborate icon in the top right corner. Take a look at the help article if you’d like to learn more and see some screenshots.
If you don’t yet have a Slides account, you can sign up here.
— Slides Team
Learn how you can use our new fragment styles to show or hide slide content. http://slides.com/news/fragment-styles
The new Line content type lets you draw directional lines and arrows. Learn all about it: http://slides.com/news/lines/
Now you can show slide numbers on your presentations! Learn how to enable them and see examples here: http://slides.com/news/slide-numbers/
When slides aren’t presented in person the viewer may lose context and once context is lost so is the message.
To help add some of that important narrative back we’ve made it possible to share speaker notes with people who view your deck. Shared notes appear along the bottom of the screen almost like a line of subtitles.
Find out more and see a few examples: http://slides.com/news/share-slide-notes
Thanks to all 300,000+ of you who’ve joined Slides since we launched two years ago! It’s been an incredible journey so far and we cannot wait to show you what we’ve got in store for the coming year. Stay tuned!
Check out this deck for a recap of what we’ve built so far: http://slides.com/news/make-better-presentations
- The Slides Team
Starting today you can access all media that you upload to Slides through your own personal media library. This makes it easy to reuse assets and gives you full control over your content, including the ability to permanently delete it from our servers.
You can organize media using tags and even search to find assets based on their filename or media type. The media library appears automatically when you insert a new image in your slide deck.
For teams
Teams on slides have access to a shared media library which all members can make use of. Sharing media this way is great for key assets like company logos, branding material and icon sets.
SVG
We’ve also added support for SVG images! This makes it possible to add scalable graphics that will look crisp no matter the display size your presentation appears on. Check out some examples at http://slides.com/news/svg.
Learn more about the media library in the help article.
- The Slides Team
Your presentations can now be exported to ZIP! The downloaded ZIP archive contains everything you need to access the presentation offline or even host it on your own site. Simply download, unzip and open the index.html file.
Together with our existing PDF and Dropbox exports this provides you with a great option no matter where your presentation needs to go.
ZIP exports are only available to Slides Pro and Team users.
Find out more in the help article.
We’ve completely overhauled the way private decks can be shared. Now you can create any number of secret links to your presentation and those links can optionally be password protected for added security.
What’s awesome about this is that you can create unique links based on who you’re sharing the deck with. You’ll even be able to see how many times the link was opened when you return to the share panel. If you decide to remove a link, access for that user is then revoked.
Using the share panel you can link to, embed and even send a direct email with your secret link to the presentation.
We hope you enjoy!
- The Slides Team
Oh, and here’s a fun preview of what a user sees on the password page:
Presentations can now be imported from PDF and PowerPoint! This makes it easier than ever to use Slides modern presentation tools to share your existing content.
Note that imported slides can’t be individually edited for now. More info and instructions in the help article.
Slides is made for developers. Check out how to unlock advanced editing features: http://slides.com/news/slides-for-developers
Now you can show math formulas in your presentations! Find out more: http://slides.com/news/math
Slides Pro users can now use our Google Analytics integration to access non-personally identifiable data about who’s viewing their content. This helps you determine which content that is performing well and see where your visitors are coming from.
Slides Teams have access to the same analytics data, centralized for the whole team.
Learn more and see setup instructions in this help article.
Happy analyzing!
With Slides you never need to worry about losing any of your work. Our revision history functionality allows you to easily go back and look at a presentation from any point in time. If you want, you can then choose to roll back to the given version.
This feature was previously reserved for Pro accounts but starting today we have made it available to everyone, for free.
Find out more about accessing the revision history in this help article: http://help.slides.com/knowledgebase/articles/423177-revision-history
We have launched an all new way to create presentations! This is a complete redesign that gives you much greater control over both content and layout without compromising in the least on ease-of-use.
All of your new presentations can be created using this editor and existing ones will remain editable using the old editor.
Find out more in this brief walkthrough or try it out yourself by signing in to your account.
Today we’re happy to announce that we’ve turned one year old!
It has been a great year working with our users on new and exciting use cases, making numerous updates and improvements and rolling out many new features. We also just recently moved over to a new domain name at slides.com.
We have much more planned in year two and are currently working on an all new presentation editor. Check out the early preview.
Want to get in touch? We’d love to hear from you at [email protected].
- The Slides Team
We are very excited to tell you about an all new way to present using Slides. Starting right now you have access to a very powerful set of presentation features including a control panel with your speaker notes, live streaming and remote controlling from any touch-enabled mobile device. All of this works seamlessly across platforms and is completely free to use.
Check out this video to get a four minute demonstration of how it all comes together and makes your presentation look even better on stage.
This is the control panel for your presentation. It shows the current and upcoming slides, elapsed time, speaker notes and more. It can also be used as a remote control for your presentation when opened from another device.
It’s now possible to have your audience follow along with a presentation in real-time from their own web browser. This is great when you want to present over the phone since the viewer gets to see the interactive presentation in its original quality, as opposed to a compressed video stream.
If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of these features please have a look at our help articles.
Thanks for tuning in and we can’t wait to see how you end up using this for your presentations.
- The Slides Team
Collaborating on presentations is now easier than ever before with Slides for Teams! Simply setup your team with custom branding and invite members. Each member gets full access to create, edit, and share with unified style.
Sign up now for a free 30-day trial. Add new team members at any time.
The Team plan includes all Pro features, plus:
Custom Branding
Use the brand new theme editor to create custom themes and establish a unified brand identity for all presentations. Team members choose a shared theme from the deck editor and start crafting their decks.
Team Homepage (yourteam.slid.es)
The branded homepage houses all your team’s work. Team members can clone each others presentations for simple and easy collaboration. All work is initially private but can easily be shared either internally or publicly.
Priority Support and more
The team plan comes with the best support we offer (generally under a few hours during weekdays) and 4GB of storage. That’s a lot more space for your decks and media.
Get started by creating your team now.
-The Slides Team
Looking to learn how to use Slides more effectively? Our knowledge base, feedback forum and support sections have all moved to a new location: help.slid.es.
Our knowledge base contains many helpful articles about various parts of the Slides platform. You can learn how to:
The public feedback forum is a great place for suggesting ideas for changes or feature additions. Your suggestions can be voted on by other Slides users so that we get a feeling for what’s important to everyone.
All of this is made possible thanks to UserVoice, a great platform for collecting feedback and providing support.
- The Slides Team
Many of our users have asked to pay for a whole year at once and now you can. A yearly subscription costs only $70, meaning you get two free months compared to paying monthly. It also makes dealing with the receipts easier since there’s only one to manage (as a bonus we now send more detailed PDF receipts after payment).
New users are given this option when upgrading their accounts. If you’re an existing Pro monthly subscriber you can change to yearly billing on the billing details page which is available through the header dropdown menu. We’ll subtract all of the days you have left on your monthly subscription from the yearly price.
That’s it for now, we look forward to sharing more updates with you soon!
- The Slides Team
The Slides site has been given a big makeover to make content more discoverable and give presentations a bigger footprint.
Our new home page does a much better job at explaining the product offering. A presentation is embedded in the header of the page to show what the output looks like and further down you’ll find videos describing the Slides workflow.
The new explore page lets you browse all of the great presentations that people have created. The page combines hand-picked featured decks, automated surfacing of popular decks as well as searching to expose some of the more than 70,000 decks that exist within the Slides ecosystem.
With the new deck page we decided to hide the Slides site header and let presentations flow all the way to the top edge of the browser window. It really makes your work stand out with a footprint which is nearly fullscreen.
We also added a “summary bubble” which appears for a few seconds after the page loads to promote the author.
We’ve got a lot more in the pipeline so stay tuned for future announcements!
- The Slides team
We’ve been busy working on a lot of useful additions to the Slides editor lately. Find out more about the latest additions below:
You can now define custom styles for your presentations! This is really handy when you want to apply broader style changes to a whole deck or include a custom font.
Look for the Custom CSS button in the bottom of the editor’s Style panel. Changes made in the CSS editor are applied real-time as you type to make the experience as seamless as possible.
As always – if you have any questions or comments feel free to get in touch at [email protected].
Welcome back! Today, we’re happy to announce the release of some great new features. Here’s what’s new:
Dropbox sync (Pro)
Save, sync and present: You can now automatically sync all of your work on Slides with Dropbox. All files needed to run the complete presentation offline are copied over to your Dropbox folder in the background after each save, keeping your content available when you’re on the go.
To enable this feature, log in to your Pro account and head over to the Export panel of the editor.
Free position mode
Slides are normally authored much like text documents. While that’s great for speed, sometimes customization is desirable. This new mode lets you drag and drop any element freely within a slide, making it possibile to compose more creatively. Watch our two-minute walkthrough below for a quick demo:
New themes (Pro)
As an added bonus, we’ve added a few more (7, to be exact) themes to choose from to make the base style of your presentations look great.
More…
Also, we routinely launch smaller features and improvements and here’s a highlight of some recent ones for all users:
Have some feedback? Get in touch at [email protected].
-Hakim & Owen
Hello!
Today we’re launching Slides - slid.es (our previous name was rvl.io).
We built Slides to give you an elegant and easy to use alternative to traditional presentation software. Whether you’re creating or consuming, the content is always in focus. There is a minimal interface for editing which exposes just the right amount of controls. When consuming, the experience is clean and distinct, allowing you to to navigate easily through the content no matter what device you’re using. Our goal is to create a platform where ideas can be expressed freely, easilly, and beautifully.
Here’s a quick tour of the product and what you’ll find “inside the box”:
Creation
It is a joy to craft presentations in your browser.
Presentation
Embed on your blog or website, view on your tablet or phone, link and share, or open in full screen to present for an audience.
Engage
Build a resume of thought leadership on Slides.
We’re just getting started here and we’d love to hear your feedback – you can reach us anytime at [email protected].
Thanks,
-Hakim and Owen
