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Our Ultimate Presentation Kit with 15,000 PowerPoint template variations has always been one of the most popular items on MyBackgrounds. Many churches use this collection for announcements, worship slides and sermon presentations.

We are pleased to announce a new Ultimate Presentation Kit for Churches! This set features a special collection of worship themes in addition to the Ultimate Presentation Kit’s array of PowerPoint templates. Three licenses are also included.

We also feature smaller packages of PowerPoint templates and graphics for churches and worship. Visit our PowerPoint for Churches page to learn more!

Are you stuck in a PowerPoint rut? Check our SlideShare. SlideShare users upload PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and PDFs. You can search by topic to find files related to your presentation’s subject. View the presentations online to see what new ideas stand out – there are some very creative designs!

You can also contribute to the SlideShare community by uploading your own files. You can limit who sees your presentations, or you can share your work on social networking sites.

Still need graphics? Check out our Ultimate PowerPoint Presentation Kit with over 15,000 templates.

Is your site in need of an extreme makeover? Some reasons are obvious, like frames, content from 2002 or hideous animated GIFs. Before you tackle a redesign, do some research. Preparing and Planning for a Redesign is a great checklist. Instead of scrapping everything on the site, what do your customers like? What has been working for you? What hasn’t? You may find that your site’s structure works great for customers and search engines, and some graphics changes will be enough. If your site has never worked for you, it may be worth rebuilding from the ground up. Preliminary research will save you from deleting your most-read content or jumping on design trends just because everyone else is doing it.

With magazines and newspapers going under all the time, is print really dead? The neat columns, clean text and bold ads we see on websites today look very similar to traditional printed media. 25 Content Heavy Websites with Beautiful Structure, Layout and Hierarchy showcases websites that use clean, modular layouts to organize text. Instead of mile-long pages, designers are using columns and blocks to break up content. The result is reminiscent of newspapers and magazines.

Web typography can also go beyond Arial and Verdana. 50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices has a slew of web-based tools that let you test fonts in real time.