In today’s collection, we’re bringing you a set of fresh new modern, professional PowerPoint templates for creating presentations that stand out from the crowd. Give your presentation a modern edge, and convey your message in a professional way.

We handpicked a collection of unique and modern PowerPoint templates that you can use for crafting slideshows for all kinds of presentations, including startup pitch decks to business projections, photography, marketing, design, and more.

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5 Tips for Creating a Modern PowerPoint Presentation

If you’re new to designing PowerPoint presentations, these tips will help you create a more professional looking slideshow to win your audience.

1. Use Minimal and Professional Slide Designs

Let’s face it, all of the default templates included in PowerPoint are terrible and have outdated designs. They’ll never help make your presentation stand out from the crowd.

So start your process by finding a better and professionally designed PowerPoint template to make your slideshow look more creative and original. You’d be surprised to see the amazing designs on some of the templates you can download from third-party websites. They’ll make your old presentations look like something from the 1980s.

2. Find and Use Better Custom Fonts

Fonts take a major role in presentation slideshows as they help attract attention to each of your slides. Consider using custom fonts in your presentations.

With the right combination of a big bold title font and a body font with an easy to read design, you can create presentations to deliver a great user experience that shows off professionalism.

3. Write Shorter Sentences

In most cases, a PowerPoint presentation should focus on highlighting the key points of a speech and to visualize data. And you should keep it that way and avoid making your presentation look like a novel filled with long paragraphs.

You can achieve this goal by creating a content layout for including shorter sentences and paragraphs. Use bullet points and icons as well.

4. Add Shapes, Images, Charts, and Graphs

Modern PowerPoint presentations are usually very visually appealing and it’s beautiful to look at. You can make similar presentations by including lots of shapes and large images to make each slide look more creative.

You can also use charts and infographics to visualize data from studies, show projections, summarize reports, and even make strong statements.

5. Use a Modern Color Palette

While using minimal designs is always a great approach to designing professional PowerPoint slideshows, many modern presentations feature colorful designs as well.

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When I was first learning web development, the style side of CSS seemed straightforward and fun, but performing layout feats seemed like a confusing mess. I sort of felt my way around without a solid understanding of how things like positioning and floats worked and as a result it would take hours to perform even simple tasks. If this situation sounds familiar, then this article is for you.

One of the real revelations that I had early on was when I was finally able to wrap my head around how positioning contexts worked, especially when it came to the difference between absolute and relative positioning.

Today we’re going to tackle this subject and make sure you know exactly how and when to apply a specific positioning context to a given element.

5 Different Position Values

Let’s get some complexity out of the way up front. In reality, there are a whopping five different possible values for the position property. We’ll largely skip over inherit because it’s pretty self explanatory (simply inherits the value of its parent) and isn’t really supported well in older versions of IE.

The default position value for any element on the page is static. Any element with a static positioning context will simply fall where you expect it to in the flow of the document. This of course entirely depends on the structure of your HTML.

Another value that you’ve no doubt seen is fixed. This essentially anchors an object to the background so that wherever you place it, there it will stay. We often see this used on sidebar navigation elements. After scrolling down a long page of content, it’s a pain to go back to the top to navigate elsewhere so applying a fixed position to the navigation means the user never loses site of the menu. Click the image below to see a live example of this in action.

So there you have three position values that are fairly straightforward and easy to wrap your mind around. The final two are of course absolute and relative. Let’s focus on explaining these independently and then take a look at how they can be used together to achieve unique results.

Absolute Positioning

Absolute positioning allows you to remove an object from the typical flow of the document and place it at a specific point on the page. To see how this works, let’s set up a simple unordered list of items that we’ll turn into clearly discernible rectangles.

As we’ve already learned, by default these items will have a static position applied. That means they follow the standard flow of the document …

Even though Apple’s Keynote app gives you plenty of tools and options for creating beautiful presentations, it can be tricky to find the time to build a beautiful, custom design. Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered with this collection of the best Keynote templates!

With these templates, you don’t have to spend hours designing presentation slides. You can simply edit the slides that have already been crafted by professional designers, customize charts, change colors, and voila! You have your own beautiful, unique Keynote presentation.

We picked out a few of the most professional looking Keynote templates that’ll work perfectly for your next presentation!

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6 Quick Tips for Creating a Keynote Presentation

Before we dive into our pick of the best Keynote templates, if you’re new to Keynote and making presentation slideshows, these quick tips will help you get a head start!

1. Get a Great Template

Keynote app comes with a set of simple default templates for creating different types of presentations. These templates are the ones used in most presentation slideshows because many people don’t realize they can actually use third-party templates to design better slideshows.

If you want to make a set of professional slides with designs that stand out from the crowd, you should always avoid the default templates and use a third-party template. These templates are designed by professionals and you can import them to Keynote with just a few clicks.

2. Follow the K.I.S.S. Method

Once you pick a design for your slides, you can start thinking about the content layout. If you pick a great template, you’ll find plenty of slides with content layouts already designed for you. If not, simply follow the Keep It Stupid Simple (KISS) method.

You can never go wrong with a clean and simple content layout for a slideshow. With a minimal design, you use fewer text paragraphs, fewer images, and lots of white space. This kind of design gives full attention to the most important part of a presentation—it’s content!

3. Use Images Where Appropriate

Using images in a slideshow can not only help make your presentations more visually appealing but it also allows you to add better context to your written content.

Depending on the type of presentation you’re making, you should pick slide designs …

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project.

Whether you’re working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, it’s important to pick a font that matches the overall theme of the flyer and the business.

You need to find a font that suits the design of the flyer, the message of the event, and the target audience.

Luckily, you don’t have to spend hours searching for that perfect font. We’ve done the heavy work for you and handpicked the fonts in this collection to match all those types of flyer designs (and more!)

5 Tips for Choosing a Flyer Font

Not sure how to pick the right fonts for your flyer? Then follow these tips.

1. Pick Fonts That Match Your Brand

Fonts come in various styles and designs. Depending on the flyer you’re designing, you also need to pick the fonts that match your industry and your brand.

For example, if you’re designing a flyer for a rock music festival, you need to pick a more creative and a bold font that attracts the attention of the target audience. Like a stylish brush font with jagged edges like the font used in the Slayer band logo. You can always pull inspiration from other designs in your industry.

2. Go for a Big Title Font

The title is the main element of a flyer that attracts attention. It’s what summarizes the contents of the flyer and arouses interest. So the font you choose for titles needs to be bold and big. And don’t be afraid to get creative with your title font. Choose a design that makes your brand stand out from the crowd.

3. Choose a Sans-Serif Font for Paragraphs

While you have the freedom to get creative with your title font, you won’t have much freedom when choosing a font for body text or for the paragraphs.

You should always aim to make the paragraphs easier to read and scan. As studies show, the best font type to improve readability is sans-serif fonts. Even Microsoft recently replaced the default font of the Word app from Times New Roman to Calibri as it provides better readability.

Unless it doesn’t fit your brand, try to pick a clean and minimal sans-serif font for the paragraphs.

4. Use Font Weights Wisely

You’ll feel tempted to use …

Event poster design is a lot of fun. For most poster projects, you really get to express creativity with a one-off design for a single event. While you may still have constraints such as brand typography or color palette, there’s often lots of leeway to create something visually impressive.

With a goal of enticing people to show up or buy tickets, you have to design with impact for these kinds of project. But you also need to convey quite a bit of information in a concise way.

Here’s how to design a poster for an event.

1. Focus on a Theme

The biggest problem when it comes to event poster design is that they get slapped together too fast. Treat it like a special project and establish a visual theme for the design.

Consider creating a series of similar posters with different artwork using the same aesthetic. If you are planning to place posters in multiple locations this can help people who have seen one version take a fresh look at another poster in another place.

A good event poster theme has a feel that matches your event. Is it serious or fun? Use colors, typography, and imagery that match that tone.

2. Make it Readable from a Distance

It’s almost impossible to make text elements too big on an event poster.

People need to be able to see and read key information from a distance. Poster readability extends to both words and text elements, but also imagery. Can you tell what the event is about from afar?

Top-level event poster hierarchy should be oversized and designed to draw users in. Secondary and tertiary information can be smaller.

Pro Tip: Many users now take pictures of event poster with their mobile phone to remind them of event details later. When you are designing the poster, print a copy and try it out. Can you read all the key information when you take a photo of it? If not, keep working with the design elements to ensure this type of readability.

3. Include Key Information

Time. Date. Place. Contact information.

Does your event poster include all of the above?

If not, it probably needs to. Give people what they need to get interested in your event. Don’t make them guess.

4. Use a Stunning Visual

It doesn’t matter what the visual is for your event poster … as long as it is good.

Photos, illustrations, cool text elements, or color can all draw people into a poster design. The more stunning the visual, the more likely it is to capture a user’s attention.

The challenge with poster design is that it …

A self-running or looping PowerPoint presentation can be great for using in booths at conferences, displaying information on screens before a live event/presentation, or even to use in the waiting room of a business to showcase information.

The great thing is that if you can create a PowerPoint presentation, saving it for a looped playback is a breeze.

You can loop a PowerPoint in two different ways depending on playback method – as a PowerPoint or as a video file.

Here’s how you do it.

Create a Loop in PowerPoint

Design your PowerPoint presentation to suit your content. You can loop any number of slides for playback, so don’t worry about a limitation here.

If you want specific types of transitions between slides, remember to apply them to each slide. You can also select all apply the same transition to each slide or apply the transition to one slide and then “Apply to All” using the checkbox in the toolbar.

Slide transitions are located in the Transitions menu.

With a loop presentation, you need to determine how long each slide will linger on the screen. It might be the same amount of time for each slide or can vary.

You can set this timing in the Transitions menu as well.

Uncheck the “On Mouse Click” button and set timing for slides in the “After” box.

Preview transitions and timings in Slide Slow mode to ensure that each slide stays on the screen long enough to be clearly understood. Slides with more text need to stay on the screen longer so that they can be read easily.

When in doubt, err on the slide of leaving a little more time than you think is necessary to ensure that all presentation viewers have time to digest information on the screen.

Save for PowerPoint Playback

If you plan to play the looped PowerPoint in a native file format, such as on a computer in PowerPoint, you want to set up the slide show loop in the Slide Show tab.

Click Set Up Slide Show, then make sure Loop Continuously Until ESC and Using Timings are checked. This will set the presentation to play in a loop with the timings you set in the previous step.

Click OK.

To play the presentation just go back to the Slide Show tab and Click Play from Start. It will run until you tap the ESC key.

Top Tip: You need to turn off screensavers or power save functions or they can kick in and override the presentation.

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