TOPIC: PRESENTATION PACKAGE

Definition: A presentation package is a (1) Double-clicking the icon on the

computer software package that is used desktop
to display information usually in form of a
(2) Using the Start menu
slide show.
Ways to Create a New Presentation
Examples of presentation package
(1) Using Blank presentation
Microsoft PowerPoint
(2) Using Templates
Macromedia flash
(3) Auto Content Wizard
Windows movie maker
How to Insert Text
Open Office
Placeholders are the dotted outline that
Uses of Presentation Package
appear when you create a new slide.
(1) As a slide show These boxes serve as placeholders for
objects such as the slide title, text, chart,
(2) In delivering multimedia lectures table, and clip art.
(3) In writing multimedia story book Just click to add text in any placeholder
Getting Started with PowerPoint or double click to add the specified
object.
Ways to start PowerPoint
FEATURES OF A PRESENTATION PACKAGE
A presentation package has certain features such as:
1. Creation of Slides: to create presentations, group of slides are created.
Presentation packages contain slides.
2. Insertion of Pictures: presentation packages allow users to insert pictures and
objects into their presentation from external sources.
3. Insertion of Video and Audio: presentation packages allow users to insert video
and audio into their presentation from external sources.
4. Animation: this feature makes presentation package different from other
packages. It allows users to create motion effect on their slides.
5. Slide Show: this feature makes users to view how the group of slides will be
displayed. It displays the content to the audience during the presentation.
6. Creation of Graphics: this feature enables the presentation package to provide
users with graphics inform of shapes that can create an object from the scratch.
7. Creating organizational and other Types of Chart: charts such as pie chart,
bar chart etc. can be created easily with presentation package.
Using Presentation Package Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
How a window displays depends on the size of the window. Resolution determines how
much information your computer monitor can display. If you use a low resolution, less
information fits on your screen, but the size of your text and images are larger. If you
use a high resolution, more information fits on your screen, but the size of the text and
images are smaller.
Microsoft Office Button: in the upper-left corner is this button. You can use the menu
to create a new file, open an existing file, save a file, etc.
Quick Access Toolbar: this tool providers you with access to commands you frequently
use. The save, undo and redo appear on the Quick access toolbar.
Title Bar: it displays the name of the currently working presentation. PowerPoint names
presentation start with Presentation1.
Ribbon: this is located near the top of the PowerPoint window, below the Quick Access
toolbar.
Ruler: rulers are vertical and horizontal guides. Thy are used to determine where you
want to place an object.
Slides, Placeholders and Notes: slides appear in the center of the window to create
your presentation. Placeholders hold the objects in your slide. You can use placeholders
to hold text, clip art, charts, and more. You use the notes area to create your notes. You
can refer to these notes as you give your presentation.
Status Bar, Tabs and View Buttons: The view buttons appear near the button of the
screen. It is used to change between Normal view, slider sorter view, and the slide show
view.
Zoom: This allows you to zoom in and zoom out on the window. Zooming makes the
window larger so you focus on an object. Zooming out makes the object smaller so you
can see the entire window. You can click and drag the vertical and horizontal splitter
bars to change the size of your panes.
To open the Ms PowerPoint application: click on START button, navigate to All programs,
navigate to Microsoft Office, click on Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
Creating a New Presentation: PowerPoint presentation can be created on slides. Use
layouts to organize the content on each slide. PowerPoint has several slide layouts. You
can add effects such as theme and backgrounds to slides. Themes are set of colours,
fonts, and special effects. Backgrounds add a coloured background to your slides.
Inserting the Contents: PowerPoint displays default slides in the slide pane when you
open the package.
To Enter Text: click and type the title of your presentation in the “click to add title
area”, “click and type a subtitle in the click to add subtitle” area.
To Insert Graphics or Pictures: Click in the “click to add title” or “click to add subtitle”
area, press the enter key to bring the cursor down, from the ribbon bar, click on the
insert menu, select the type of graphic options from clip art, select shapes, and pictures
buttons from the menu.
To Add Clip Art Object: Click on clip art button, in the search for textbox, type a
general description of the graphics you want to insert, then click on the ‘Go’ button.,
click on any image from the list of displayed graphics to insert into the slide.
To Add Picture Object: Click on picture button, the insert dialog box is displayed, cick
on the location of the picture on the computer from the look in options, click on the
desired image and click on insert command button. The picture is inserted into the slide
as desired.
To Choose an Effect: Select the object you want to animate, choose the animation tab,
click the custom animation button, the custom animation button pane appears, click the
Add Effect button a menu appears, choose the type of effect you want. A submenu
appears, click the effect you want, PowerPoint applies the effect.
To Add New Slides: Choose the Home tab, click the New slide button in the slides
group, the office theme dialog box appears and displays several layout templates, click
the layout you want, the layout appears in the slide pane of the PowerPoint window. To
add text, click inside the placeholder and type. To add additional slide to your
presentation, right click the slide layout, a menu appears, click layout and then click the
layout you want, choose the Home tab, click the New slide button, select from the
options.
To Save a Presentation: Click on the office button, select save from the options
displayed, select the drive you want to save the document, click on the file name, type
the desired document name, click on the save button.
To Run a Slide Show: Choose the slide show tab, click the “from the beginning button”
in the start slide show group, click the slide show icon on the bottom right corner of your
screen. Your slide show appears on your screen.
To Print Presentation: Click the Ms office button, a menu appears, choose print, click
print preview, click the down arrow next to the print what field in the page setup group
and then select what you would like to print. A preview appears on the screen, click the
print, the print dialog box appears, click the down arrow next to the colour/grayscale
field to select whether you want your slides to print in colour, grayscale, or black and
white, click ok.
To Close Presentation: click on the close button from the title bar.

WEB DESIGN PACKAGE I

Meaning of Web Design
Website design means planning, creation and updating of websites. Website design also
involves information architecture, website structure, user interface, navigation
ergonomics, website layout colors, contrasts, fonts and photography as well as icons
design. All these website elements combined together to form websites.
Understanding a Web Page
A web page is a text file containing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) formatting tags
and links to graphic files and other web pages thorough a web server. Web pages are
unique in such a way that the can be interactive and use multimedia. The main thing to
remember when creating a web is to establish a goal by setting many links.

Uses of a Web Design Package

A web page is basically used to create web pages. Other uses include:
Accessibility Checker: Which gives the users the ability to check if their codes is
standard complaint and their website is easily accessible for people width disabilities.
Split View Option: Allow users to code in code view and preview in design view without
the hassle of switching from design and code view tab.
Interactive Buttons: Give users a new easy way to create web graphics for navigation
and eliminating the need for a complicated image –editing package such as Adobe
Photoshop.
Dynamic Web Template (DWT): Allow users to create a single template that could be
used across multiple pages and even the whole website.
Code Snippets: Give users the advantage to create snippets of their commonly used
pieces of code allowing them to store it for easy access when next it is needed.

Web Design Package II

Component of a Web Design Package
1. A Solid Layout: In web design, the 5. Hit Counter: This gives details about
foundation is your layout. Laying out a the number of a visitor to a website
web design involves placing all the through a graphic counter.
content and navigational elements.
6. Advertising Banner: The advertising
2. Effective Typography: It is the flow banner will produce and ad-banner
of the words and it is important for a web rotator with images of your choice . Ad-
design’s typography to be easy to read banner are usually used to generate
and follow while establishing structure revenue and can however be used to
and hierarchy within the content. rotate many images to create a slide
show effects.
3. The Right Color Scheme: Choosing
the right color scheme is extremely 7. Table of Content: This will repeatedly
important, because it will set the mood of create a page with hyperlinks to each
your design more so than any other page on your site. The table of content
component. can be used as a site map.
4. Appropriate Design Elements: Your 8. Marquees: A marquee is a text that
creativity can go wild here with texture, scrolls across the screen. The marquee is
icons, patterns, etc. However, keep in used when you want to draw attention to
mind that design elements also play a a certain point.
big role in setting the mood of the
design. So keep things consistent with 9. Scheduled Pictures: This component
the goals of the website and it’s can be used when you have a limited
audience. offer or you want to add variety to your
page,
10. Search Form: This lets one have an
easy way to search one’s site.

WEB DESIGN PACKAGE III

Examples of a Web Design Package
Examples are as follows:
1. iWeb: iWeb allows users to create websites and blogs and customize them with their
own text, photos and movies. iWeb integrates with other services, including Facebook,
YouTube, Google Adsense and Google Maps. It allows user to create a website in just a
few minutes without the knowledge of programming or HTML. iWeb provides beautiful,
Apple-designed templates that you can easily customized so don’t have to worry about
design.
2. Microsoft FrontPage: It is a web tool that allow users to create accustom web sites
without having to know HTML code. It helps you to manage the pages in your web as
well as create and edit web pages in a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WHSIWYG)
fashion.
3. Adobe Dreamweaver: It is a web design package that is suitable for everything from
simple page design to development of dynamic pages written with ColdFusion, PHP, ASP,
CSS, XML, XSLT, and JavaScript. Dreamweaver is the most powerful, most fully featured
web developer tool. It combines a great WYSIWYG editor, an FTP client, and a convenient
scripting environment.
4. Microsoft Expression Web & Studio: It is a web design tool you can use to design
and developed web pages using XML, CSS, [Link], [Link] AJAX, XHTML, XSLT, PHP
and JAVAScript. Expression Web requires .NET Framework and Silverlight to install and
run. It uses its own standards-based rendering engine which is different from internet
Explorer’s Trident engine.
5. Webplus X4: Is the quick and easy way for anyone who wants to create and publish
eye-catching desktop and mobile sites, without having to use any code.
6. NetObjects Fusion: Are commercial programs with a graphical user interface and
generates HTML or XHTML through its own proprietary database.
7. Amaya: Is a free and open source WHYSIWYG authoring tool with browsing abilities. It
has XML-based capabilities such as XHTML, MathML and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
It displays free and open image formats such as PNG and SVG, as well as a subset of SVG
animation.

GRAPHICS (Introduction to  Adobe Page Maker

CorelDraw)
Features of CorelDraw or CorelDraw
Definition of Graphics Environment
Computer Graphics are graphics created Title Bar
using computer and, more generally, the
The title bar displays the name of the
representation and manipulation of
CorelDraw file on which you are working.
image data by a computer.
It is also used to reposition the CorelDraw
Examples of Graphics Packages window on the screen.
 Paint Menu Bar
 CorelDraw There are 11 pull down menus in the
menu bar. All menu commands are found
 Adobe Photoshop in these pull-down menus.
 Harvard graphics Rulers
 Print Master Rulers serve as a positioning and sizing
 Ventura aid. They can be turned off optionally. In
addition, you can drag guidelines off the
 Photoshop Pro rulers to serve as drawing aids.
Scroll Bars NOTE: There are keyboard shortcuts that
are often faster that toolbar usage. Once
The scroll bars allow you to shift the page memorized, you won’t need to waste
horizontally and vertically. precious time with a Toolbar button.
Drawing Windows Ctrl + S = Save; Ctrl + P=Print; Ctrl +
The large white portion of the screen is Z=Undo; Ctrl + X = Cut; Ctrl + C =Copy;
the drawing windows. The rectangle with Ctrl + V= Paste
the drop shadow is the printable page.
Roll-up Window OPERATIONAL TOOLS
The Transform (Position) roll-up is shown The operational tools are as follows:
on the left. Although they are not
permanent part of the interface (they can The Toolbox
be if you want). You can use them to
The toolbox provides you with
control many of CorelDraw’s operations.
operational tools. The basic categories of
Their beauty lies in the fact that they can
tools are:
remain active for playing quick “what-ifs”
without going through the longer process  Utility Tools
of invoking a standard menu dialog box.
 Diagramming Objects
Status Bar
 Interactive Tools
Status bar shows the fill pattern, outline
location, movement and absolute  Painting Tools
coordinates of selected object. Utility Tools
Colour Palette The Pick Tool
The colour palette allows for the quick  For selecting objects.
application of a colored fill or outline
colour. Selecting the scrollbar at the  For moving, sizing, rotating and
bottom of the palette opens an expanded skewing object.
color palette. The Shape Tool
Page Counter  For editing the shapes of the
CorelDraw allows you to create drawings diagramming object and text.
consisting of multiple pages. The total  The shape fly-out give access to
number of pages is displayed in the page knife tool, eraser tool, Free
counter box along with arrows that allow Transform tools.
you to page forward or back in your
document. The Zoom Tool
Standard Toolbar  For changing views.
Toolbar provides quick access to  The zoom fly-out gives you access
commonly used features. Almost all of to the Panning tool.
these can be accessed through the Menu
Diagramming Object
Bar. CorelDraw provides a series of
different toolbars for your use. The Freehand Tool
Additionally, toolbar are completely
customizable. You can add buttons to  For drawing straight lines, curves.
invoke just about any command that you  For auto-tracking a bitmap images.
regularly use.
  The freehand fly-out gives you  For creating transparent effects
access to the Bezier (curve) tool; interactively.
Natural Pen tool; Dimension line
Interactive Blend tool
tool and connector line tool.
 The interactive Blend fly-out gives
Rectangle Tool
you access to the new distorted
 For drawing rectangles and squares tool; Interactive envelop; Extrude
and Drop shadow tools.
Ellipse tool
Painting Tool
 For drawing ellipse and circles.
Outline Tool
The polygon Tool
 For setting outline thickness and
 For drawing multi-sided shapes like color.
stars or polygons.
 For creating line ending attributes.
 The polygon fly-out gives access to
the spiral tool and Graph paper  For creating calligraphic effect.
tool.
 For applying dash line patterns.
The Text tool
Fill Tool
 For placing Artistic text and
 For setting fill colors and screens.
paragraph text.
 For creating fountain fill.
Interactive Tools
 For applying pattern tile fills.
Interactive fill Tool
 For applying texture fills.
 For placing various fills on the page
interactively.  For applying special PostScript fills.
Interactive Transparency Tool

Graphical Package III

Practical Class
Designing Drawings 1. Save your drawing (In CorelDraw
your document is called drawing)
Loading CorelDraw Application
2. Click on File Menu and select exit.
To access the CorelDraw application,
take the following steps: Drawing Shapes
1. Click on the start button  After loading application
2. Point to all Program  On the tool bar, Click Shapes
3. Point to CorelDraw Graphic Suite  At the drawing area, drag to create
12 (Depending on the version you shape.
are using)
Add Colour to your Shapes
4. Select CorelDraw
 After drawing your shapes
Exiting CorelDraw
 Select the Drawing by clicking on it
To leave the CorelDraw environment,
take the following actions;
  On the Tool bar, Click on the Fill
Colour
Convert your Writing to Curve
 On your drawing area, type the
text
 Draw a circle shape beneath the
text
 Select all
 On the Text Menu, Click on “Fit text
to Path”
 Click on the Circle Shape only and
delete it

Practical Assignment
Design the following:
 National Flag
 School Logo/Badge
 Coat of Arm
 Complimentary Card
 Letter Head