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You won't find any ugly PowerPoint timelines in this list. We have searched the web and can now present to you the ten most beautiful online timeline designs we could find.

Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker's new game mode transforms your timeline into an engaging, interactive sorting game. Perfect for memorising the order of historical events.

So you've created your amazing timeline on Tiki-Toki - now what? Put the timeline on your own website for your readers to enjoy, of course! That way your readers can view and interact with your timeline without ever leaving your website. Brilliant!

Tiki-Toki is an amazing tool for creating beautiful interactive timelines (if we do say so ourselves!). There is loads you can do with a free account, but there's even more you can do with a Bronze subscription.

Timelines created using Tiki-Toki are fully interactive experiences. Here, we explain what makes Tiki-Toki timelines the most interactive on the web.

Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker is delighted to feature a timeline made by Sàpiens magazine showcasing one hundred important sites in Catalonia.

A beautiful and fascinating timeline all about the weather, and how modern weather forecasting developed, created by the World Meteorological Organization to mark the 20th anniversary of its World Weather Research Programme.

We've had a few queries of late asking whether you can link stories on your Tiki-Toki timeline. Short answer: Yes, you can! For the full details, keep reading...

Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker is delighted to feature The Evolution of Genres: A Sideways Look at Literature. This lovely timeline is about the development of genres in fiction, set in the wider context of history, and was created by Ken Pelham as a companion to a book he is working on.

We have made it easy to access Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker tutorials by compiling them into a useful list.

Tiki-Toki is delighted to feature the Rock the ARK timeline! It's a brilliant timeline all about the music scene in Knowsley, a region next to Liverpool in the UK.

Tiki-Toki is pleased to feature a timeline all about the History of Gifted Education, just in time for the start of a new academic year! This timeline was created by Bonnie Cramond of the University of Georgia and her students.

Images can really make your Tiki-Toki timeline shine! But how do you get the most out of your images? We've got some tips and tricks to share with you.

We've got a real gem of a timeline to feature this time, folks: all about the history of the personal computer! This well-researched and incredibly detailed timeline has a staggering amount of content, and includes lots of images and videos.

You've created your fabulous Tiki-Toki timeline, but boy, does it have a lot of content. Perhaps a rather overwhelming amount of content... What can you do to make it more accessible for your readers? You can use categories and tagging to help organise it all, of course!

We're delighted to feature the History of Fish Creek timeline. It is a nicely-designed and informative timeline about the area surrounding Fish Creek, on the outskirts of Brisbane, Australia, and was put together by Hilder Road State School parents.

We have a truly spectacular timeline to share with you: First World War - Kent & Medway. It's strikingly simple in design, but the content is fascinating and painstakingly researched.

Timelines are a great way to present information visually. However, there are many times when you might want to link to other places on the web so your viewers can explore things in more detail. The easiest way to do this is to put a URL in the 'Link' field on your story tab. You can also link to multiple sources by using some special formatting in either the timeline's 'About' field or a story's 'Extra Info' tab.

We present to you another great timeline created by one of our users. University of Cambridge's Faculty of English Library's Cambridge Literature Timeline is a brilliant example of what you can create using Tiki-Toki, full of great content and beautifully designed.

Using Tiki-Toki in the classroom can be rewarding for both you and your students, but how can you get the most out of the experience?

We have launched a raft of new features, including autoplay, improved timeline printing, added Japanese support and updated our desktop apps with loads of the new features.

Have you been curious about Tiki-Toki's new spans functionality, but a bit hesitant to try it out? Fret no more! We will explain how it all works.

It has been a long time since this blog was updated. This is not because we haven't had anything to report. Far from it, Tiki-Toki has undergone loads of improvements since we last posted.

Another year is drawing to a close - where did 2014 go? This is a perfect time for some reflection about the year past at Tiki-Toki, and to tell you about a couple of new features.

We've got a fascinating timeline this month about the development of mobile operating systems - From Symbian to Sailfish: The Evolution of the Smartphone OS. It's not only the content that's interesting but also how the timeline was created.

Ever wanted to know how we created our Tower of London 3d timeline? It's all explained here!

I'll admit it, at Tiki-Toki, we have a particular fondness for local history timelines, especially those with local/crowdsourced information and images. It is with pleasure that our featured timeline this month is the Salmon River History timeline put together by the Salmon River Restoration Council.

In honour of the start of another academic year, we are pleased to feature a timeline of women mathematicians. The timeline is part of an ongoing project being put together by Larry Riddle of Agnes Scott College.

Everybody wants their timeline to be as beautiful as it can be. If you've got a lot of stories, however, it becomes more difficult because stories may overlap each other. This is especially the case with a timeline covering a wide span of time but which has a high concentration of events in a small space of time. So how do you structure the timeline so you've got all your great content visible? Here are a few tips to try!

What should we do when a whole project is formed around making a timeline? Feature it, of course! This month we are delighted to feature the Pevensey timeline, which charts the English village's history from the Roman period to the modern day.

Even though the team behind Tiki-Toki recently launched a new product, we're still hard at work on Tiki-Toki! Since our last new features round up in May, we've introduced support for longer titles on 3d timelines, the ability to turn url hashing off and on, automatically displaying viewer controls for new timelines and Slovenian language support. We've been busy!

We love theatre at Tiki-Toki! It is a particular pleasure therefore that our featured timeline this month is for the Royal Court Theatre's production of Adler & Gibb.

Ever wanted to use Tiki-Toki timelines but weren't sure how to get started? Check out our new video that walks you through the basics - signing up, creating a timeline, adding a story, image and video, and sharing your timeline. It also mentions our very useful FAQs and the blog (well, I couldn't not mention the blog now, could I?!).

We are pleased to feature the Rich Coast Project's timeline this month. It is an excellent example of visualising and sharing a project plan using Tiki-Toki interactive timelines.

It's time for another round up of new features for Tiki-Toki! We've been working on mobile and touchscreen improvements, especially for the 3d view. Other changes include Turkish language support and disabling story lightboxes - keep reading to find out more!

The Irving Penn timeline created by the Art Institute of Chicago is everything a timeline should be - interesting, informative and gorgeous! Tiki-Toki is pleased to feature this lovely work.

Ever wanted to customise the format of dates on your timeline? Now you can! As promised in an earlier blog post, this post is all about customised date formatting options.

The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) has put together a gorgeous and informative timeline about nuclear history, which Tiki-Toki is pleased to feature this month.

We've got a special treat for all the teachers out there who use Tiki-Toki! Scott McAnally of Wade Hampton High School has kindly shared some of his insights on using Tiki-Toki and other resources in the classroom.

We are pleased to feature a very unique timeline this month about New England Gravestones and the Iconography of Death which was created by Robin Ness of Brown University.

If ever there was a meaty topic regarding timelines, this is it! We will cover the standard options for date formatting in this blog post. In a later blog post, we'll go over customised date formatting options.

The Mozilla Open Badges project created a lovely timeline about their work in 2013 which the Tiki-Toki team are proud to feature.

It's almost time to welcome the start of another year. In the spirit of saying good-bye to the old and welcoming the new, here's a brief review of Tiki-Toki over 2013.

This month we feature a timeline painstakingly put together by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza about the events leading up to and following JFK's assassination.

You can now make the background image scroll with the timeline. Yes, you read that right - the background image can scroll! Check it out on the blog timeline and then read more here.

This month we are pleased to feature a beautiful timeline about the Philharmonie de Paris, which is due to open in 2015!

Every year, the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom highlights challenges to library materials and free speech by celebrating Banned Books Week. They have also put together a timeline about banned books using Tiki-Toki.

So you've started work on your fabulous timeline and it's all looking great. But then you notice that Aunt Mabel's famous pink beehive is getting cropped out of the image - what to do? Fret not, Tiki-Toki allows you to manually reposition story images, to avoid important bits - such as auntie's colourful hair do - from being hidden.

On the centennial anniversary of the Armory Show, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art have put together a fascinating timeline about the exhibition, which we are pleased to feature this month!

It's time for another round up of new features and Tiki-Toki news! Firstly, the new features: Tiki-Toki now works with DailyMotion videos and is more mobile device friendly. Secondly, the news: timelines can now be viewed in 3d and we have recently released Tiki-Toki Desktop, a downloadable Mac version of Tiki-Toki.

In the spirit of summertime fun, our timeline this month features the game releases from Spiderweb Software, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary!

We are pleased to announce that TikiToki Desktop - a Mac OSX desktop version of our timeline software - is now available for download in the Mac App Store.

If you are interested in philosophy, then this month's timeline is well worth a look! Joe Sackmann has put together a timeline on the History of Existentialism.

We're really pleased to launch Tiki-Toki's 3d timeline view! Both new and existing timelines can now be viewed in 3d. What's more, you can customise how your timeline will appear in 3d to really make it shine!

As promised in an earlier blog post, this post will be about getting the most out of the 'category band' view for your timeline. This view is really useful if you have lots of stories, or want to display some stories as events and others as duration.

We're really pleased to feature the Scholastic Art & Writing Award's timeline this month, and would like to congratulate them on their 90th anniversary!

This month's featured timeline is the educational and beautifully designed history of rockets and space travel, put together by Crank Publishing to tie in with their iOS app Junior Astronaut - Breaking through the space barrier.

Tiki-Toki offers loads of options for customising the look of your timelines. Perhaps the most important is the 'view' option, which allows you to choose between four different ways of displaying a timeline: 'Standard', 'Category Bands', 'Coloured Stories' and 'Duration'. Here, we'll walk you through each of these options so you can pick the one that best meets your needs.

Today marks the second anniversary of Tiki-Toki's launch! As you can imagine, we're rather chuffed.

We've got another fascinating featured timeline this month: Matthew Davidson's timeline of Electronic Music.

We are often asked whether it is possible to embed Tiki-Toki timelines into PowerPoint presentations. We did some digging and discovered that, yes, it is possible, thanks to a free PowerPoint plug-in.

This month we've got a real treat for all the transport buffs out there: our timeline of the month is the Metro Transportation Library and Archive's History of Transit in Los Angeles.

We've got a whole host of new features to tell you about. First off, there's a bunch of new options for the category band view. You can now order the bands and set the size of each relative to the others. You can also change the story appearance for each band...

It's a new year, and now's the time to get started on those New Year resolutions! Perhaps a few of you made a resolution to work on your timeline. Today's topic just might come in handy, as it's all about making it easier for your timeline's viewers.

Every month we showcase a timeline that has interesting content and makes good use of Tiki-Toki's features. This month we have a fantastic timeline by Yannig Roth - Crowdsourcing by World's Best Global Brands.

Tiki-Toki has loads of great features to help you create unique and attractive timelines. Some of these features are less well known than others. For example, I am sure you already knew that you could add images and videos to your stories but did you know that you can also embed audio? This can be really useful if you have recorded interviews or other audio files you'd like to share on your timeline.