Today we’re happy to announce that we’ve turned one year old!
It has been a great year working with our users on new and exciting use cases, making numerous updates and improvements and rolling out many new features. We also just recently moved over to a new domain name at slides.com.
We have much more planned in year two and are currently working on an all new presentation editor. Check out the early preview.
Want to get in touch? We’d love to hear from you at hello@slides.com.
We are very excited to tell you about an all new way to present using Slides. Starting right now you have access to a very powerful set of presentation features including a control panel with your speaker notes, live streaming and remote controlling from any touch-enabled mobile device. All of this works seamlessly across platforms and is completely free to use.
Check out this video to get a four minute demonstration of how it all comes together and makes your presentation look even better on stage.
Speaker View
This is the control panel for your presentation. It shows the current and upcoming slides, elapsed time, speaker notes and more. It can also be used as a remote control for your presentation when opened from another device.
Live Streaming
It’s now possible to have your audience follow along with a presentation in real-time from their own web browser. This is great when you want to present over the phone since the viewer gets to see the interactive presentation in its original quality, as opposed to a compressed video stream.
If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of these features please have a look at our help articles.
Thanks for tuning in and we can’t wait to see how you end up using this for your presentations.
Collaborating on presentations is now easier than ever before with Slides for Teams! Simply setup your team with custom branding and invite members. Each member gets full access to create, edit, and share with unified style.
Use the brand new theme editor to create custom themes and establish a unified brand identity for all presentations. Team members choose a shared theme from the deck editor and start crafting their decks.
Team Homepage (yourteam.slid.es)
The branded homepage houses all your team’s work. Team members can clone each others presentations for simple and easy collaboration. All work is initially private but can easily be shared either internally or publicly.
Priority Support and more
The team plan comes with the best support we offer (generally under a few hours during weekdays) and 4GB of storage. That’s a lot more space for your decks and media.
Looking to learn how to use Slides more effectively? Our knowledge base, feedback forum and support sections have all moved to a new location: help.slid.es.
Our knowledge base contains many helpful articles about various parts of the Slides platform. You can learn how to:
The public feedback forum is a great place for suggesting ideas for changes or feature additions. Your suggestions can be voted on by other Slides users so that we get a feeling for what’s important to everyone.
All of this is made possible thanks to UserVoice, a great platform for collecting feedback and providing support.
Many of our users have asked to pay for a whole year at once and now you can. A yearly subscription costs only $70, meaning you get two free months compared to paying monthly. It also makes dealing with the receipts easier since there’s only one to manage (as a bonus we now send more detailed PDF receipts after payment).
New users are given this option when upgrading their accounts. If you’re an existing Pro monthly subscriber you can change to yearly billing on the billing details page which is available through the header dropdown menu. We’ll subtract all of the days you have left on your monthly subscription from the yearly price.
That’s it for now, we look forward to sharing more updates with you soon!
The Slides site has been given a big makeover to make content more discoverable and give presentations a bigger footprint.
Home
Our new home page does a much better job at explaining the product offering. A presentation is embedded in the header of the page to show what the output looks like and further down you’ll find videos describing the Slides workflow.
Explore
The new explore page lets you browse all of the great presentations that people have created. The page combines hand-picked featured decks, automated surfacing of popular decks as well as searching to expose some of the more than 70,000 decks that exist within the Slides ecosystem.
Deck page
With the new deck page we decided to hide the Slides site header and let presentations flow all the way to the top edge of the browser window. It really makes your work stand out with a footprint which is nearly fullscreen.
We also added a “summary bubble” which appears for a few seconds after the page loads to promote the author.
We’ve got a lot more in the pipeline so stay tuned for future announcements!
We’ve been busy working on a lot of useful additions to the Slides editor lately. Find out more about the latest additions below:
Background Images
PDF Export (Pro)
Custom CSS (Pro)
You can now define custom styles for your presentations! This is really handy when you want to apply broader style changes to a whole deck or include a custom font.
Look for the Custom CSS button in the bottom of the editor’s Style panel. Changes made in the CSS editor are applied real-time as you type to make the experience as seamless as possible.
Other Changes
Move slides into and out of vertical stacks
Insert YouTube and Vimeo videos via the editor toolbar
Thumbnails when sharing on Facebook and Twitter (example)
Fixed bug that prevented images from being positioned freely
Fixed bug with HTML entities in deck title and description
As always – if you have any questions or comments feel free to get in touch at hello@slid.es.
Welcome back! Today, we’re happy to announce the release of some great new features. Here’s what’s new:
Dropbox sync (Pro)
Save, sync and present: You can now automatically sync all of your work on Slides with Dropbox. All files needed to run the complete presentation offline are copied over to your Dropbox folder in the background after each save, keeping your content available when you’re on the go.
To enable this feature, log in to your Pro account and head over to the Export panel of the editor.
Free position mode
Slides are normally authored much like text documents. While that’s great for speed, sometimes customization is desirable. This new mode lets you drag and drop any element freely within a slide, making it possibile to compose more creatively. Watch our two-minute walkthrough below for a quick demo:
New themes (Pro)
As an added bonus, we’ve added a few more (7, to be exact) themes to choose from to make the base style of your presentations look great.
More…
Also, we routinely launch smaller features and improvements and here’s a highlight of some recent ones for all users:
Font size formatting option
Image resizing support
Tab key to indent lists
Ability to turn individual bullet list items into fragments
Today we’re launching Slides - slid.es (our previous name was rvl.io).
We built Slides to give you an elegant and easy to use alternative to traditional presentation software. Whether you’re creating or consuming, the content is always in focus. There is a minimal interface for editing which exposes just the right amount of controls. When consuming, the experience is clean and distinct, allowing you to to navigate easily through the content no matter what device you’re using. Our goal is to create a platform where ideas can be expressed freely, easilly, and beautifully.
Here’s a quick tour of the product and what you’ll find “inside the box”:
An awesome in-browser editor for creating presentations
A presentation framework that looks fantastic and works across web and mobile platforms
Your user profile where you can list and share your great ideas
Creation
It is a joy to craft presentations in your browser.
Presentation
Embed on your blog or website, view on your tablet or phone, link and share, or open in full screen to present for an audience.
Engage
Build a resume of thought leadership on Slides.
We’re just getting started here and we’d love to hear your feedback – you can reach us anytime at hello@slid.es.