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Broadside Presentation Deck

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Create striking bilingual presentations with ease.

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What Broadside Presentation Deck does

Broadside is a specialized HTML presentation deck designed for impactful marketing and product launch communications. With a dark editorial canvas highlighted by a vibrant fire orange accent, this template is tailored for medium-high formality presentations that require a dramatic flair. The typography and color palette are meticulously crafted to maintain a cohesive visual identity, making it suitable for brand manifestos, cultural pitches, and bilingual decks in English and Chinese. The design encourages users to stay within its structured layout, ensuring a consistent and professional appearance throughout the presentation.

To utilize Broadside, users start by cloning the provided example.html file into their workspace. The next step involves replacing placeholder content with actual headlines, body text, and relevant images while adhering to the design system. This means users must not alter the fonts, colors, or layout structures, as these elements are integral to the template's identity. For those needing to adjust the length of the deck, the process is straightforward: duplicate existing layouts for additional content or remove slides as necessary, ensuring that page numbers are updated accordingly.

Broadside is particularly well-suited for professionals in marketing, design, and business who need to deliver compelling narratives in a visually engaging format. It is an excellent choice for tech and research presentations that benefit from a bold, editorial style. However, it is not suitable for presentations that aim for a more subdued or traditional aesthetic, as its dramatic design may not align with those needs.

When to use it

Use Broadside when you need to create impactful presentations that require a bold visual style, particularly for marketing and product launches.

When not to use it

Avoid Broadside for presentations that require a more traditional or subtle design approach, as its dark aesthetic may not suit those contexts.

What you can build with it

Marketing Launch Presentation

Create a visually striking presentation for your product launch, capturing attention with a bold design.

Bilingual Deck for International Audiences

Use Broadside to deliver a cohesive presentation in both English and Chinese, ensuring clarity and impact.

Cultural Pitch to Stakeholders

Engage stakeholders with a dramatic and well-structured presentation that conveys your brand's vision and values.

How to install Broadside Presentation Deck

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/html-ppt-zhangzara-broadside --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Inside SKILL.md

Written by nexu-io

Broadside

Dark editorial canvas with a single fire orange accent and bilingual Latin/Chinese type stack.

A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system, and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates breaks the system; stay inside this one.

At a glance

  • Scheme: dark
  • Formality: medium-high
  • Density: medium
  • Slides in demo: 16

Best for

Anything that should land like a broadside newspaper headline: brand manifestos, magazine and cultural pitches, design talks, bilingual EN/CN decks, founder vision statements. Also a striking pick for tech, research, or business decks that want a dramatic single-accent editorial feel.

Avoid for

Decks that need to feel quiet, warm, or institutionally traditional — the dark canvas with fire-orange accent commits to drama.

Workflow

  1. Clone example.html into the user's workspace as the working file.
  2. Replace placeholder content with the user's real headlines, body copy, numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when swapping image placeholders.
  3. Preserve the design system. Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette, restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets, paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the identity.
  4. Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts. If the user has more content than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.
  5. Designing missing layouts: if a slide needs a layout the template doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette, decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail to a different template.
  6. Keep the navigation runtime as shipped. If the deck ships an assets/deck-stage.js or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.

Output contract

Emit between <artifact> tags:

<artifact identifier="zhangzara-broadside" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>

Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates.

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at LICENSE and must be redistributed alongside any copy of example.html, template.json, or any vendored assets/ runtime. See template.json for the upstream metadata snapshot.

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