The ffslides (“freeform slides”) class is intended to make it easier to place various types of content freely on the page, and therefore easier to design documents with a strong visual component: presentations, posters, research or lecture notes, and so on. The goal of the class is to be less rigid and less complex than some of the popular presentation-making options. It is essentially a small set of macros added to the article class. A well-organized template file is included, and the documentation is itself an extensive example of the class's capabilities.