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Go small with your presentation.

If you have a blog or other web site, you can either point people to the presentation by linking to

it—or, if you want to make things quick and easy for your visitors, just embed the so-called Mini

Presentation Module.

To use it, rst make sure your presentation is published. In Google Presentations, switch to the

Publish tab and click “Publish document” (you can unpublish the document later if you change your

mind). A box appears with an HTML snippet like the following:

<iframe src='EmbedSlideshow?docid=dfw57tn_31g8h2k4' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'></iframe>

Copy and paste this into the your blog or web page using the HTML view of your editor. In Figure

4-11, I’m using Blogger.com. The result, as shown in Figure 4-12, is a miniature version of the

presentation, styled not unlike the YouTube video player. Back and forward buttons allow the visitor

to go through your slides.

Note that at the time of this writing, you cannot successfully change the width and height attributes of the

HTML snippet—your mini presentation will always remain xed at 410 x 342 resolution.

If you care about HTML accessibility, include a plain link to the published presentation between the opening

and closing

iframe tags like this: <iframe ...><a href="...">My presentation</a></iframe>. This link