S5 - at last, a good web-based presentation package

Last week for my presentation on Chandler and the CSG at Educause 2004 I used Eric Meyer's S5 package instead of Powerpoint for the first time.

It worked like a charm!

In case you're wondering, S5 stands for the "simple standards-based slide show system", which simply explains what it is.

I love the fact that it's entirely web standards compliant, requiring nothing more than a browser to view the slides. And, even better, the same content can be viewed with multiple formatting applied - for instance, here are the slides, and here is the content in an outline view.

Eric's now released version 1.0 of S5, along with a primer on how to use it.

I recommend it highly - a big thanks to Eric for making this simple and elegant tool available.

Now I just have to figure out how to convert our organizational Powerpoint template into an S5 template.