beamerblock
I want to put boxed text/block in Beamer and my LaTeX source is
\documentclass[pdf]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{Observation 1}
Simmons Hall is composed of metal and concrete.
\end{block}
\begin{block}{Observation 2}
Simmons Dormitory is composed of brick.
\end{block}
\begin{block}{Conclusion}
Simmons Hall $\not=$ Simmons Dormitory.
\end{block}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
This results in
whereas what I want is
You do need to tell beamer what you want to appear in each frame of the handout version. You can use \onslide specifications to do this so that you do not need to modify the existing overlay specifications at all. (I'm not sure this is what you want - probably not.)
The following code modifies your MWE so that, in presentation mode, there would actually be 10 slides within the frame. These are then placed on slides 1 or 2 of the handout. This is a waste of code: if you only want to show slide 5 and slide 10, you do not need two \againframe but only one. But, anyway, with the two:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}<1-| handout:0>[label=foo]{My only frame}
\begin{enumerate}[<+->]% or whatever you like for presentation mode
\onslide<1-| handout:1-2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\onslide<1-| handout:2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\againframe<0| handout:1>{foo}
\againframe<0| handout:2>{foo}
\end{document}
More efficiently with only one repeat:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}<1-| handout:1>[label=foo]{My only frame}
\begin{enumerate}[<+->]% or whatever you like for presentation mode
\onslide<1-| handout:1-2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\onslide<1-| handout:2>
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\item Item \arabic{enumi}
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\againframe<0| handout:2>{foo}
\end{document}
I'm not sure how this could apply to article mode since then there are no frames or slides.
I think, your footline disappeared, because it was overwritten with \setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\setcounter{subsection}{1}
\usetheme{Berkeley}
\usecolortheme{seahorse}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\useinnertheme{rounded}
%%Make desired footline
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor~~\beamer@ifempty{\insertshortinstitute}{}{(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{subtitle in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertsubtitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\insertframenumber/\inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\defbeamertemplate{footline}{page number appendix}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor~~\beamer@ifempty{\insertshortinstitute}{}{(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{subtitle in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertsubtitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\Roman{framenumber}\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\g@addto@macro\appendix{%
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number appendix]%
}
\makeatother
\usepackage{appendixnumberbeamer}
%%No Navigation template
\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty
%%Title
\title{My beamer slides}
\author{Just another guy}
\institute[ABC]{My famous ABC institute}
\date{worldwide, \today}
%\logo{\includegraphics[width=1.5cm]{./logo}}
\begin{document}
\section{First Section}
\begin{frame}{First slide}
First slide (1/2)
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Second slide}
Second slide (2/2)
\end{frame}
\appendix
\section{Appendix}
\begin{frame}
First appednix (I)
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
First appednix (II)
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Your MWE is using the default beamer theme, which doesn't define the blocks to have the colors you want. Try using a different theme, as below. Also, to get blue/green/red use block/exampleblock/alertblock, respectively.
You can also customize how things look by using
\useinnertheme{}and\usecolortheme{}. See the beamer documentation for more info.