Embedding a Google Docs Presentation into Drupal

Many times an article requires more than can be comfortably fit on a normal page. Often just breaking it up into multiple entries works great, but some times a demonstration or presentation has to be quickly followed from beginning to end to work.

 The benefits to using a Google Presentation are mainly screen space and time savings. The possible costs are loss of search terms used in the presentation (If you add enough text content on the page the addition of the embed could greatly increase its search engine visibility), and usability by browsers that do not support it (Not many) and usability for screenreaders that may not be able to parse it , or the lack of alternate text descriptions for images used in the presentation. (I have a friend who is blind and uses a screen reader after this is published I will try and get feedback on how or if the presentation works for him)

A custom content type or module would be quite feasable to match most of the abilities of using Google Docs but it would take a little work as most gallery types are designed for a simple slide show.

Tips: Write up enough text for the node to make the page have searchable content,Save the presentation in PDF and include that as a download.

(PDF of this presentation)

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