First, here is the talk for class, done with several different themes for comparison.

• default Theme
• Berkeley Theme
• Boadilla Theme
• Copenhagen Theme
• Goettingen Theme
• Hannover Theme
• Madrid Theme
• Montpellier Theme
• Warsaw Theme

The tex files to make each of these beamer pdf files are in this directory. Be sure to grab the image in the file pix, and create a directory called pix in your beamer directory, so the Beamer LaTeX will compile for you. Alternately, delete the picture from the LaTeX file.

Here is a presentation using beamer for a recent 1-hour talk I gave. It includes illustrations, and uses a sty file.
View the files here, or download the complete directory in zip format.

Here are some basic guides, to give an idea of the possibilities, and how to implement them.

• 5-Minute Tour of Beamer’s Simplest Features
  Just what it says. Plus, here is the TeX file BeamerTour.tex which created the tour.
• Beamer Themes
  This gives a nice overview of some of the popular beamer styles in use.
• Beamer Features
  This beamer show by Michael lacey gives some of the Highlights.
• Official Beamer User Guide
  The officlal doc in all 224 pages of glory.
• latex-beamer-3.07
  The directory conatining all beamer files for this version.

There are lots of articles on the web about beamer.

• Wikipedia on Beamer (LaTeX)
  Always a good place to start - on wikipedia.
• The LaTeX Beamer Class Homepage
  This has some basic guidelines for beamer.
• SourceForge on The LaTeX beamer Class
  This is the open source site for discovering how beamer is put together.
• Google "beamer"
  This returns 800,000 links to beamer! Just the first page will get you started.