1. A method for creating a digital dashboard, said method comprising: providing a dashboard palette, at a computer system, in a slide-show presentation application; providing at least one object for said dashboard palette, at said computer system, said at least one object appearing as a native object of said slide-show presentation, wherein at least one property of said at least one object is linked to a data source; coupling said at least one object with said dashboard palette, at said computer system, to form a dashboard description, wherein said dashboard description is a complete dashboard design; and exporting said dashboard description, at said computer system, in an intermediate text file format to a dashboard creator and publisher, wherein said dashboard creator and publisher provides a functional dynamic graphical dashboard in the form of a java server page based on said dashboard description.