Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention enable building, publishing, and viewing an online presentation. A presenter may create an online presentation on the presenter's local client and then publish the created presentation for access by viewers. In embodiments, a presentation may be represented within a presentation structure as a sequenced set of chapters. A presenter may associate multi-media content with each chapter, and may review and edit the associated multi-media content. The associated multi-media content may be stored at an accessible location, and references to the content may be included in the presentation structure. A viewer may access an online presentation from an online data source by downloading a presentation structure. A presentation player on the viewer's local client may interpret the presentation structure in order to render the associated multi-media content.