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
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