Movies on iweb

Hi Jay,

Welcome to the iWeb forum.

I think I understand what you are trying to do, but I would offer you a different suggestion; rather than embed numerous movie files into a single page, take shots of particular frames of the movies, (Command Shift4), place these photos on the page you are building, and link each shot to the respective Movie file. This way your page will load much faster and it will be easier for your visitors to navigate through your movies.

Mark

as before recommende, id put the movies on seperate pages too!
saves a lot of time.

another good idea is to put the movies on a blog page! you have your central page which links to all the movies, which are all on a seperate page. at the bottom are the next and back buttons which allow you to navigate through your movies.

max

jayharren....

All the suggestions here by apnewbie and max are excellent. Keeping your movies on separate pages (either hidden with an index page or in separate blog entries) is a good idea. Not only will your pages load faster (because only one movie has to load when the page is viewed) but it will also save you bandwidth usage (by only downloading the movies that someone wants to watch....not all of them all the time). If you host on .Mac, then you will have a bi-monthly bandwidth limit of 5gb which is the amount of data that can be moved back and forth. Something to keep in mind.

Once you get comfortable with using iWeb, you might one day venture into doing some minor editing of the HTML pages that iWeb generates. This will open up a lot of different options for you as well. Pertaining to your desire to put movies on your web page, you might eventually decide to put your videos on Google or YouTube or MySpace to share in different ways. By doing some minor HTML editing, it is also possible to show these off-loaded videos through your iWeb pages, again saving you on your bandwidth usage.

Here is an example from one of my pages...
http://web.mac.com/jwtseng/iWeb/kate/video.html

Here is yet another cool option. Go to http://slooz.com and look at the trinkets page. There is a great flash viewer for photos and movies. I currently use this on my family website to view 100's of photos and 3 movies. Has worked out great so far. Good luck

I love the Slooz Expose player as well! I haven't tried it for video yet, though. What do you use to convert your movies to .fla format?

Here's my Expose page... http://homepage.mac.com/jwtseng/1/

sorry http://www.slooz.com