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Hello:

After spending about 2 years in researching, analyzing and deciding, I have just concluded a Powerpoint presentation of a business summary. It will be a nice test to put this out there in front of you guys for criticism. I`d like to see if I can take the heat.

Here`s the link: http://www.architecturaldefinitions.com/Iroko_presentation.pps

Your participation will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Larez

Hi Larez :-) Welcome to the community.

I opened the link, and with a DSL line, it was quite a wait. Granted, only a couple of minutes, but I wonder how many people would wait that long?

On the other hand, I`m also assuming that only people with very specific interest would be given the link, and they`d have a personal interest in waiting. I`m not sure, though.

As to the presentation itself, the biggest problem I see is that yellow on green text for your content areas. Since this is a presentation viewed online, I`m also assuming I saw the correct rendering of colors.

But reading yellow on green was almost impossible, so I just didn`t read it. The pictures looked great, and I got the idea immediately that it`s about mining operations. But that`s about all I got.

The simple fix is to just put more contrast into your content areas. If you absolutely must use green and yellow, then make your background lighter, like a pale lime green. Then make your yellow closer to brown.

On the other hand, perhaps using entirely different colors would be better. :-)

The other concern is portability. If this is targeting investors, the likelihood is that some lower-echelon administrative person would first take a look, wait through the download, and see if it fits with the boss` ideas.

If so, then they`d probably want to save it to disk or a jump drive, and hand it off to their boss or the next person up in the food chain. I don`t see an easy way to do that.

Your contribution is appreciated, Craig. Thanks for your comments and they will be considered. More work will be done on packaging since it might be more important than content.

Regards

Larez

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Hi Robert:

Thanks for notifying me about the messages. I was unaware that messages got stored here, and expected them to come to my email address. Now, I know better : ).

I`ve responded to them, and thanks once again.