Forget PowerPoint.  And Keynote too.

Friday I’ll be doing a presentation using my favorite simple, but elegant, presentation application. It’s Eric Meyer’s Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (AKA S5). I happened across it a few years ago and have used it ever since.

What I love about S5 is that it’s mostly one HTML file which tidily holds all of your links, graphics, etc. If you’re going to be showing webby things, why not use a webby tool? Best of all its look-and-feel is powered by CSS, so customizing it is a breeze for those of us who design web pages day in and day out.

For those who don’t and work for Vanderbilt Medical Center, here’s a zip file to download and a quick demo. To go through the demo, just hit the space bar or arrow keys a few times.