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Jan 24 2009

Background Basics for Effective Corporate Templates

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In my last blog post, I discussed why most corporate presentation templates fail to meet the needs of PowerPoint users. Frequently, the people assigned to create these PowerPoint templates rarely use them, and as a result they fail to build “usable” templates.

In this article, I’ll focus on a key part of every corporate presentation template – the background. A key point I want to make is that PowerPoint templates are more than just backgrounds, but backgrounds can make or break corporate presentation templates. There are several considerations that go into designing the right background for your corporate template. Continue reading “Background Basics for Effective Corporate Templates”

Tags: background, branding, corporate logo, corporate templates, graphic designers, Graphics, slide master

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Jan 19 2009

Why Most Corporate Presentation Templates Stink

If you deliver presentations on behalf of any organization, you’ll probably be asked to use the dreaded “corporate template” when you build your PowerPoint presentations. If your experience has been the same as mine, you’ll have run across your own share of sloppy, impractical, or incomplete corporate presentation templates. Why are so many people saddled with ineffective corporate PowerPoint templates and frequently forced to go “rogue”? Continue reading “Why Most Corporate Presentation Templates Stink”

Tags: branding, company logo, corporate templates, graphic designer, presentation templates

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