5 Ways to Put PowerPoint Presentation on Web

Want to share your original and creative presentations with others all over the world? Putting PowerPoint presentation on Web sounds a good idea. Especially in this era of Internet on which everyone can view various resources using their computers.

Here are 5 different ways to put PowerPoint presentation on Web. Each way has its cons and pros.

Method 1: Upload and link PowerPoint File directly
Yes, you could just upload PowerPoint file to your web site and link to it. Visitors click and download the file to view the presentation on their computers.

Cons:
Visitors should download the presentation before viewing.
Visitors should install PowerPoint app or PowerPoint viewer to view it.
The presentation file may have a big file size.

Pros:
Just upload your presentation to your Website and link to it.
Share your presentation with all the animations and special effects.

Method 2: Share presentation on Slideshare
Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. Think of it as something like YouTube for slide shows. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS or POT formats to SlideShare and they're converted into shared media.

Cons:
All the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will disappear.

Pros:
The presentation can be viewed on any computers.

Method 3: Publish as HTML web page
PowerPoint lets you save your presentation as HTML, as a web page (Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, and then choose Web Page in the "Save as type" pull-down menu).

Cons:
Each slide is saved as a separate image, with its own page, so you have to upload an entire folder of files to your server. It will not display properly for website visitors who aren't using IE.

Free open source software may be a stronger choice in this instance. OpenOffice Impress, the PowerPoint look-alike from OpenOffice.org, lets you create a PPT presentation from scratch, and it will also convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to HTML in a form that's compatible with a broader range of browsers.

Method 4: Flash it using special tools

You may convert your presentation into a Flash. Showing a Flash movie on web is most often as easy as uploading your SWF file to your web space and using a few lines of object / embed code (http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp) to embed the file on your page. The PowerPoint to Flash tools can be found here

I hope you can use these 5 methods to share your presentation on web easily. Of course, if you have any other good methods, please let us know.