Journal de Martine: Hello Web Design students !

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* - Hello Web Design students!- 16 Nov 07

This webpage is an exercise in adding video's to a webpage. Over the past few days I did some research on the net and in webdesign books to find out exactly how to add video's into webpage. So this is what I found out; this 1.44 minute clip explains a little ...my daughter Oonagh did 5 takes to get this clip right, so thanks to her for her co-operation!

To add a videofile to a webpage you need 5 things:

The right HTML tag with its attributes
The video in a suitable format .mpg is the best
A video camera or picture camera with video facilty or a mobile phone with video camera.
A program which lets you convert the original video file into a .mpg
A suitable 'plug-in' for your browser to view the video

1. HTML tag in this case the <embed> tag:: <embed> </embed>; Now we add the attributes:; src= URL (source file location; usually in a video folder); width="320"; height="360"
- anything smaller then that size was not showing the controls: loop="false" - if you want the video to stop after playing -; loop="true" - if you want the video to keep playing -; controls="true"
- this adds the play/stop/pause buttons to control the video: autostart="false"
- lets the viewer start the video if she/he so wishes