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Business Support Bulletin - December 08
Business Support Bulletin - December 08
Welcome to December's edition of sdesign1's Business Support Bulletin. This month we have provided you a how to guide for the insertion of videos on to your Website. Of course, we have included all of the networking events that will be taking place in and around the North-West between now and December.
Top Tips
How to….Add Videos to your Website:
Adding videos to your Website is as easy as adding any other content on to the site – once you know how! It will add much more value than just plain text and offers visitors another way to consume the content of your site. In fact in some ways it’s easier than adding text as you don’t have to work out what to write. The addition of videos can transform a dull static Website into a dynamic and exciting media rich source of information that will encourage users to repeatedly visit your site.
We recommend adding a video to your site via a video sharing Website
such as YouTube. This takes all the bother of finding embed code away
for you and makes embedding a video as easy as a cut and paste action.
We have simplified the process into a few easy steps for you:
- Record your video using a camcorder, digital camera, mobile phone, any other recording device.
- Convert it into an acceptable format (e.g mpeg). We use free software downloaded from www.AVS4You.com to convert our DVDs. However, there is other software available – this one just happened to be one of the first we came across, didn’t cost the earth and worked.. By converting into an mpeg file you will compress the video into a smaller file (for instance YouTube allows a maximum of 1 GB). Conversion and uploading to a video sharing site also means that your video can be viewed by 95% of users without having to choose between RealTime Player or Windows Media Player or QuickTime. Consider this: some people don’t even know what those are! They also get it wrong.
- Upload
your video to a video sharing site. Here are a few for starters(you may
need to register with some sites before you can begin uploading
videos):
Screenshot to show the process and options of a video upload on video sharing Website, YouTube
Screenshot to show stage 2 of the video upload process on YouTube
- There is an option on most video sharing sites to make your video public or private depending on whether you want your video to be solely watched by the people you know (see Fig 1.1). Once it has been uploaded navigate to the page which displays the video and you will see a field which contains the ‘embed’ code.
- Copy the code given once the video has been uploaded and add this link into the HTML code of your site. This sounds a bit technical but it’s just a question of finding a spot on your page where the video needs to go and pasting in the code. If you are using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) you will need to click on a tab called ‘html’ or ‘source’ so that you can paste code in.
Screenshot of AVS Video Converter. Converting a video in a DVD format and compressing it into an MPEG format.
Screenshot to show location on a YouTube page of the 'embed' code. This code can be found once a video has been uploaded successfully
Fig 1.4 shows how this is done using the Drupal Content Management System. Fig 1.6 shows you how to embed your code for the Wordpress Content Management System, as the process is slightly different.
Screenshot to show where the HTML source editor is located on the Drupal page editor.
Screenshot
of the HTML Source Editor. By clicking the HTML button the HTML source
editor will appear which is where the 'embed' code needs to be pasted
in to
Screenshot
to show where the same HTML source editor is located in Wordpress.
Administrators need to remember to save or publish the page on they
have pasted the embed code into the HTML or all of the changes will be
lost
If you have any problems or questions about adding a video to your
Website or if you do not wish to have your video on a video sharing
Website and are happy for us to help you embed your video directly onto
your site for you then contact us now for more information.
If you have found this 'how to' guide useful, you might like to read our other information guides. We have recently published on our Website two newWeb information manuals on how to add or edit content on your Website using the Wordpress Content Management System and the Drupal Content Management System.
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Business Events
Well I guess, everybody is doing christmas cards, putting up decorations and other such festive shenanigans so there's only one event, below. So go to it.
NorthWest Business Events
BNI Riverside Breakfast Meeting - Networking Event - Every Wednesday
Find out how to increase your client base and generate new leads. Held at the Liverpool Marina every Wednesday - 6.45am - 8.30am. Location. If you might be interested in the chance to promote your business to a host of other businesses visit www.bni-riverside.co.uk for further information. Breakfast is free and substantial!
