Professional, Polished, Presentable: Making Great Slides with xaringan
Channel: R Consortium
Date: 2021-08-08

The xaringan package brings professional, impressive, and visually appealing slides to the powerful R Markdown ecosystem. Through our hands-on tutorial, you will learn how to design highly effective slides that support presentations for teaching and reporting alike. Over three hours, you will learn how to create an accessible baseline design that matches your institution or organization’s style guide. Together we’ll explore the basics of CSS—the design language of the internet—and how we can leverage CSS to produce elegant slides for effective communication. Finally, we’ll deploy our slides online where they can be shared and discovered by others long after they support our presentations. The tutorial will demonstrate how to use the skills learned to incorporate principles of accessible design into their presentations. The tutorial will feature live-coding and interactive question-and-answer periods, interspersed with small-group break-out sessions for guided hands-on experience. The tutorial will be supported by a repository of materials.

Main Sections 

0:00 Introduction
3:41 Agenda
5:07 Setting the stage
12:38 From style guide to xaringan theme
17:35 Xaring extras
27:42 Effective Communication
46:09 Accessible design 
58:43 Introduction to CSS
1:11:16 Accessibility with CSS & HTML
1:29:53 More CSS
1:42:31 Design components 
1:47:31 Final activity


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