Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Captcha added

Since there was a lot of SPAM, we added a Captcha check on the create page.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Added 404 Google Helper

Added a JS code snippet by Google to offer additional information when a page was not found (404 Error). Also added Google ads on the presentations. What do you think about this?

Friday, August 15, 2008

More than 2000 presentations

There are more than 2000 presentations in the system. Perhaps I should add some useful features (like preview)?

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Fullscreen presentation with Firefox Extension Autohide


With the Autohide Extension it is now possible to show your S5easy presentations without borders in Firefox. Just press F11.

Friday, February 09, 2007

PHP 5.2.1

Today I upgraded to PHP 5.2.1, this will also lead to a small performance boost.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

More than 600 presentations

Up to now there has been more than 600 presentations created. Wow!
But it seems, that useres sometimes insert 2 or 3 almost same presentations. A edit function for already created presentation is urgently necessary.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Google Pagerank 4

After the last Google Dance I got an pagerank of 4 for my www.s5easy.com.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Kein PowerPoint mehr notwendig

Slideshows online erstellen kann jetzt jeder Interessierte ohne HTML-Kenntnisse. www.S5easy.com wartet mit einem benutzerfreundlichen Eingabeformular auf, das durch Einfachheit und Schnelligkeit besticht.


Die Idee kam Simon Brüchner, als er das "Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System" (abgekürzt S5) auf der Homepage von Eric Meyer vorfand. "Schon immer haben mich propietäre Lösungen nicht befriedigt", erklärt Simon das Entstehen seiner Homepage www.S5easy.com. Dort kann man ohne Kenntnisse von HTML oder JavaScript innerhalb weniger Minuten seine eigene Präsentation (engl. slideshow) erstellen, ohne auf das teure und aufwändig gestaltete PowerPoint von Microsoft zurückgreifen zu müssen.
Der 26-jährige Absolvent der Betriebswirtschaft an der FH Esslingen (Baden-Württemberg) ist dabei der Web 2.0-Devise des "Sharing" gefolgt: Jeder kann die Slideshow des anderen einsehen, und das ohne einen eigenen Account zu eröffnen. Weitere Vorteile sind die optische Einfachheit und die Abrufbarkeit zu jeder Zeit in jedem Browser. Auch drucken und downloaden (als ZIP oder TAR) ist kein Problem. Ein weiterer Pluspunkt ist der geringe benötigte Speicherplatz.
Diese Vorteile hat schon das Webmagazin www.drweb.de erkannt. Angetan von Simons Seite hat das Magazin das vereinfachte Erstellen von Slideshows im Internet als "Trend 2006" eingestuft.
Was ist in nächster Zeit an Neuerungen zu erwarten? "Demnächst wird es möglich sein, die eigene Slideshow nachträglich zu editieren", verrät Simon. "Zur Verbesserung der Optik soll es auch bald die Auswahl verschiedener Themes geben". S5easy steht jedoch nach wie vor wie der Name schon sagt für puristische Einfachheit und Übersichtlichkeit. Dieses Konzept kann vor allem Firmen ansprechen, in denen Slideshows zum Meeting-Alltag gehören. Mit www.S5easy.com fällt der Aufwand beim Erstellen deutlich geringer aus. Die fertige Slideshow muss nicht einmal verschickt werden, da sie jederzeit von jedem eingesehen werden kann. Schließlich trägt die Schlichtheit des Tools sehr zur Verständlichkeit des Inhalts bei.

Wer keine Lust auf Kinkerlitzchen hat, ist hier willkommen.


The first german press release about S5easy.com, created by Cosima Stawenow. Translation will follow.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

What Google knows

Search querys with an info:URL give informations Google has about this URL. This is what Google knows about S5easy

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Download available

Today I worked hard to make widely requested download of presentations available. It is now possible to download a presentation very easily: www.s5easy.com/123/download/zip/ would download a zip archive of presentation no 123. Also .tar an .tgz are possible. Get informations about downloading your presentation visit: www.s5easy.com/123/download/.

Each presentation (online) has now a last slide with informations about downloading the presentaion. The "offline" zip/tar/tgz presentations don't have this slide.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

About

This blog is about the technical backgrounds of the S5easy.com Website.


What can you do with S5easy.com?


How can I create presentations?

Start here www.s5easy.com/createSlideshow.php
  1. First insert a title for your presentation, then your name
  2. Insert the title of the first slide and some contents (HTML is allowed)
    Click "add new slide" if you want to add more contents to your presentation
  3. Click "Save Presentation" when you are finish. Your personal ID for this slideshow will rise. Click it!


Which software do I need?
None! (Exept a browser, like you using at the moment (-: )


How does it works?
S5easy.com uses the Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System short S5. It is a XHTML-based file format for defining slideshows. It was created by Eric A. Meyer as an alternative to the browser-centric Opera Show format. S5 is not a presentation program, but fulfills the same purpose in combination with a standards-compliant web browser. The text of an S5 presentation can be stored in a single XHTML file.


Future
Some ideas for the future
  • Brainstorming wiki
  • Downloading presentations
  • Editing after saving
  • Tagging
  • Content related adds
  • Upload new themes
  • Personalisation
  • Short URLs
  • PPT plugin for exporting ppt2s5

Friday, January 13, 2006

Small Redesign

The CSS was a little edited, now html is lightblue and the div::content is white, the feedback-box at the bottom was moved to www.s5easy.com/feedback/ only the arrow remains. I cutted also the content of the homepage. It focuses now more on the key features, in my opinion. Perhaps Im wrong!?

S5 v1.2a

I uploaded* the new version of S5 by Eric Meyer.

Two example slideshows with the new version:
OSF Version: www.s5easy.com/9/
OXOX Version: www.s5easy.com/22/

The main new feature are keynote-like notes. Accessible by pressing "n".

Friday, December 16, 2005

del.icio.us feature

It's possible to add www.s5easy.com directly by the homepage to your del.icio.us bookmarks. Just click Bookmark www.s5esay.com on del.icio.us

You are interested how it works?
<?php
$link 
'http://del.icio.us/post?v=3&amp;url='.rawurlencode('http://www.s5easy.com/')
        .
'&amp;title='.rawurlencode('Create S5 Slideshows Easy Online');

echo 
'<a href="'.$link.'">Bookmark on del.icio.us</a>'
?>


Update 2006-01-25: peoples having S5easy on their del.icio.us bookmark list

Google finds S5easy with S5

Obviously Google connects the www.s5easy.com website with the search term S5. Google lists www.s5easy.com at postition 112 :-) of about 5,670,000.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Favicon

My brother made me a favicon.ico with Gimp.

Individual 404 error page

The 404 error page is working. For Example www.s5easy.com/area51.html would produce an individual 404 error.

Each to his own

Today, and yesterday night I did some Apache rewrite magic: Now every browser request for an presentation is rewriten to a standardized URL. For example, http://s5easy.com/123 becames http://www.s5easy.com/123/ (www and trailing / has been added). With this clear buildup it is possible to use different templates. Internally every request in one of these integer-directory is redirected to the particular template directory of this presentation, no redundant storage of templates occures.

Update 2006-01-13: found a great german forum about modrewrite.de

Monday, November 28, 2005

Related Websites

Firefox
Artikles
Search Engines

Slideshow != Presentation

Today I realised, that the translation (I'm german) of slideshow is not the same as presentation. So I have to change all occurrences of "slideshow" on my website with "presentation". But wait, why is S5 called "simple standards-based slide show system"? Is this a closer description of what it is? I'm a little bit confusend now.

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