This guide provides a set of guidelines to assist an Alleo creator when designing board content taking into consideration performance to ensure a great end user experience.
Asset Management
Compress images for web-based presentations (i.e. jpg provide a smaller file size vs. png).
Be mindful of the amount of assets uploaded and stored within your Alleo boards. Depending on your license agreement, storage space may become limited due to unnecessary asset storage.
Asset Limitations
While animated GIFs can be used within an Alleo board, understand that no object actions can be assigned to them. In addition, you cannot annotate on an animated GIF
Large files (i.e. digital graphics, videos and documents) may cause performance issues.
Slide Management
When setting a slide background, use images sized to the exact dimensions of the slide's width and height (e.g., if using a 1920x1080 slide, ensure images are sized 1920x1080).
It is not recommended to use a video as a slide background since this consumes system (computer) resources.
Board Management
While Alleo provides an infinite canvas, the amount of content on the board impacts the board's graphic performance.
For large boards (i.e. large amount of slides/locations), best practices include the following:
Disabling the pan transition between slides (use instant or fade transitions)
Consider consolidating slides by utilizing object actions. For example, instead of 5 slides with an asset on each, use one slide with 5 buttons to display the 5 assets in a single container.
While Alleo promotes freeform collaboration with it's ability to annotate on the infinite canvas (as well as on certain assets), a large number of annotations can cause performance issues.
Video Management
When creating videos to be added to Alleo board, optimize the video file for a web application. A video file that has been uploaded to an Alleo board can be viewed simultaneously by ALL participants (remotely and in room).
When a video does not need to sync between multiple users in a board, consider embedding the videos from a streaming service (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo). In this case, the video playback is not synchronized between users. This helps with conserving Alleo file space and preserving CPU resources.
When conducting a hybrid presentation using video files, best practices include:
Limiting the amount of video files utilized in a single board.
Limiting the a video file to a reasonable resolution and duration to avoid playback issues.
Not setting videos to auto-start in containers that are not essential to the experience.
Alleo Rooms
When sharing a board to a display running Alleo Rooms, share with "Owner" permissions for optimal compatibility with object actions.