subject: Finding Presentation Templates to Speed Up Your Work [print this page] Finding Presentation Templates to Speed Up Your Work
Often times creating PowerPoint presentations involves an equal amount of finding and organizing the relevant information and creating a captivating visual style for the presentation to keep your viewers interested. Sadly, both require their own skills and involve their own specific details, so it's quite rare to be able to pull off a successful presentation in all aspects just by yourself.
This is where presentation templates come in handy they are basically pre-designed styles made publicly available by their authors, so that you could download them and use them in your own presentations. PowerPoint presentation templates vary greatly in their styles, complexity and quality of design and if you look around the Internet for long enough, you should be able to find one that suits your needs just perfectly.
You'll have to do quite a bit of searching before that, probably the large abundance of available themes online can be a blessing but also a curse with so many to choose from, it can sometimes become obvious that quantity prevails over quality when it comes to people freely publishing their work like that. This means that you'll come across plenty of unprofessional presentation templates which are completely unfit for your purposes but on the other hand, among those will always be at least a few gems which are waiting for you to discover and use them.
And sometimes, you will like a template for the most part but just be unsatisfied with a particular aspect of it. This is where the copyright rules of PowerPoint presentation templates come into play with most of them, you're basically given permission to modify the template any way you see fit before using it, provided that you give sufficient credit to the author. This even includes taking a part of a template and using it in your own in most cases just verify with the author to make sure it's applicable to your case.
If you want to get a good supply of templates to use in your presentations, it is a good idea to become a member of a small number of very active websites with communities that revolve around PowerPoint presentation templates set up an account with each of them and get yourself on their mailing lists and such, so that you're constantly informed of any new releases you might be interested in.
Do not forget to take part in these communities as well rate and comment on the templates you like (and don't like!) and help their authors improve their work. This way you'll get to use better templates in the future, and the community will keep evolving to provide more varied work. It's a win-win situation.
And if you feel you can contribute something to these communities besides your opinion e.g. make your own templates and submit them then by all means do it, as it's important that we all help as much as we can in order to have a more active general community for distributing PowerPoint presentation templates.
