Designing for limited bandwith.

One thing that helps a lot, although it's at the point when you're ready to publish, is changing the publish quality settings. You can decrease the image quality with hardly any degradation, and your files size will decrease quite a bit if you use a lot of images. You might have to experiment with quality vs. filesize to get to the point that's acceptable to you.

Amount of slides should only be an issue if there's a lot more content (images/audio/video) on those slides. Eliminating anything that isn't strictly necessary will streamline things.

Hi Hofmeyr, and welcome to the Heroes Community.

I had to do this for one client-community in the UK.

Reduce images to the smallest size/quality, not voiceover, no video, and try to make up for that loss with interactivity.

Matthew's points are all valid.

If the bandwidth CAN handle it, some media once in a while can be inserted and provides a counterpoint to the rest of the course. If you can do that, just make sure you make that slide "work" as hard as it can! 

Hope that helps.

Bruce

PS - smaller font sizes save bandwidth.

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PPS - not really

Thank you for the replies guys, I played around with your suggestions, and they all work, thank you !

...except smaller font sizes

If you use a lot of images, try compressing the images in powerpoint before tweaking it further in presenter. That works for me, a 6mb presentation is reduced to as low as 2mb.

There's a back story here. I read your post ; got to the "PS" part, and actually said out loud " really ??" , only to be answered by your PPS saying, "not really" , so actually had a good chuckle at my own expense.

Sorry

It's a very old gag and I could not resist using it.....

Bruce

I'm a fan of PNG images. These are not only tiny, but you get the added bonus transparency, so the end product looks slick. I convert all my images to PNG using Photoshop Elements, which came free with my Wacom Bamboo tablet. You have to watch out the Articulate settings don't over-compress the images and you lose quality though.

I ran into this issue as well. A customer had several videos already being used for locations with strong bandwidth.  I was able to use still shots from the video and the following tutorial to create a comic book images and just added speech bubbles for the same dialog the video had. There were about 60 jpgs by the end of the course, but when saved at the lowest quality, the course was about 10 MB total.