From the point of view of the presentation's visual quality the template is the most important module of the Shaker presentation system.
For more information about how Shaker's templates are created please, see the template section of our product info page on the Shaker website.

You choose the presentation template you want to use when you create a new presentation. A presentation cannot be transferred to another template directly - it wouldn't work because of the design variations from one template to the other - but you can copy content (objects) from one presentation to another.

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The template defines the look and feel of the presentation by providing a series of custom-made design presets:

* basic slide layout
* object styles
* default (template) animation of
* slide title design and animation
* slide transition animation
* slide layout guides


basic slide layout
includes the slide background image, the position and animation of the slide titles, the position and design of the slide pager, and the position and design of the exit presentation button.


object styles
Styles are the core of Shaker 's capability to communicate a consistent visual identity.
Every object in shaker has 3 styles, defined in the template. The style setting determines the general look of the given object.
e.g. in the case of a simple object, as the rectangle, styles will set 3 variations for the rectangle fill color and border color. in the case of a more complex object, as the textbox, styles will define 3 variations for textbox font, font size and font color.


object default animation
The default animation - also 'template animation' - defines the behavior of objects when they enter and exit the slide. It is a complex effect designed by the Flash expert who built the template.
Each object and each object style can have a different template animation. The template animation is enabled on all objects by default, it can be disabled or replaced by user animations using the controls on the animations sheet of the properties panel.
Text, bulletpoint and chart objects also have a special focus animation effect, also part of the template design.


slide title design and animation
The position/text format/animation of the slide title object is fixed in the template.


slide transition animation
also a design element defined in the template, the transition animation is played when you change slides, slidegroups.
It is the template designer's decision whether the transition animation is played between each slide, or only between slidegroups, or not used at all.
The feature is not optional to the user.


slide layout guides
a set of invisible guides used by the object align function: when aligned, objects will snap to this guide.
Text, bulletpoints and subbullets have dedicated guides to align to. To enforce layout design, the template's designer may choose to automatically apply guides to the bulletpoint/subbullet objects - in these templates, users will only be able to move bulletpoints and subbullets vertically.