Send e-mail Download Zipped Tutorial Hosted Presentations, also called Webinars are a new way to take advantage of the Web to make real time presentations to clients and prospective clients. For example, if you are a designer and you want to present a series of logo designs and discuss the designs in real time with your clients, then a hosted presentation is a very professional way to do this. You can optionally call your client on the phone and present and discuss your designs in real time. Hosted Presentations give you a chance to market your product or service anywhere in the world giving new meaning to the World Wide Web. So how does it work? The presentations are hosted on the Xara/Magix website. You need to have a FREE Magix Online World hosting account. You can sign up for one when you are ready to make your presentation available. Then, create your presentation and publish it to your Magix Online World web hosting page. You can publish the site using Web Designer’s built in publishing module or using a stand alone FTP (file transfer protocol) program such as Filezilla or any other FTP program. When your presentation is ready, press Help and select Remote Presentations... Enter your User name (your Magix registered e-mail address) and your Magix password. Enter a Presentation Title for your Webinar, and the Presentation Website URL where you published your files. You can publish your Webinar to a separate folder on Magic such as presentation, in which case your web address needs to include the folder name at the end of your website address, for example, http://myname.magix.net/public/presentation. Add a message to your viewers. If your viewers show up before you are online to present, they will see your message so give them some information such as time, date, etc. Press Create Presentation. The link to your new presentation will appear in the smallest imaginable type just under Your Presentations. Copy this link and send it to whomever you wish to attend your presentation along with the date and time and a phone number if you wish to add voice to your presentation. You could also set up a conference call to include more than one person, but this has to be arranged with your telephone company unless you already have this service. When your visitors enter your Webinar URL, they will see the Remote Presentation Manager and be asked to sign in. Next, he or she will see the first page of your presentation. But your guests will not be able to use any of the navigation. Only you, the presenter can do this. You have the power! When the appointed time for your presentation comes, select Help > Remote Presentation... from inside Web Designer 7 Premium. Web Designer 7 Premium directs you to the Sign In screen in your web browser. Once you sign in, you are taken to the Remote Presentation Manager window. Press Start. You will be taken top the first page of your presentation. You can press the buttons on your page or use your arrow keys on your keyboard to load the steps. In addition, you can use the Page Up and Page Down buttons to go up a page or down a page. As your visitor may be waiting with baited breath for the presentation to begin, it might make sense to create a special first page that tells your visitor what time the presentation will begin, and maybe some key points that you will be covering. OK. If all this seems overwhelming, or if you don’t need to present in real time, then just provide the actual link to your presentation, as opposed to the special coded link, and have faith that your visitor will have enough sense to navigate the presentation without your guidance. You can also create a traveling presentation by publishing your presentation to a folder on a laptop computer. Just click the first HTML page to begin the presentation. Or you could create a Shortcut on your desktop that links to your first page and opens the first page in your web browser. So, in presentation format, there are three ways to make your presentation: 1. On Line Hosted 2. On Line - Unhosted 3. On your Laptop Some final words. Xara has been working feverishly to update many of the widgets and photo effects found in the Designs Gallery. For example if you currently use a vertical photo in some of the zoom gadgets, the image is distorted. I am hopeful this will be remedied by the time this Workbook is posted. Your comments, questions, corrections, bits of gossip, are always welcome and help your editor (that’s me) improve the content. You can use the Send e-mail link below or click on any of the e buttons on the navigation bar. And last, for those who have inquired as to the whereabouts of the Zip file, just press the Z button on the nab bar. Gary W. Priester Your Editor Send e-mail