You can play almost all types of videos and also flash movies on your website. You can either upload videos and flash files to your webspace and then play them on your website or play videos from other places on the internet such as YouTube™ or Vimeo™.
If you want to store them on your webspace we recommend optimising the movie to make sure it doesn't take too long for your website visitiors to view it. You are can have upto 20mb of webspace free with your website, however you might need to buy more if your movie is very large. You can do this in the Buy section of the control panel.
Steps to upload a video or flash file and play it on your website:
(scroll to the bottom of the page to view instructions on how to play videos from other places on the internet)
Step 1:
Click on the Content tab.
Step 2:
Click on the Pages tab.
Step 3:
The list on the page that loads shows the pages that have been created for your site. Click on the page you want to add the video to. To create a new page including a homepage (splashpage) just press the Add Pages button, click here to view help on this subject.
Step 4:
Once on the page scroll down to the text editor (see below). To add a movie or flash file press the Insert/Embed Media button  . This will display a box similar to the one below:
Step 5:
Type: From the Type menu select the type of player you want to play the movie in. You can choose from a Flash player (movies with endings of .swf), Quicktime player (movies with endings of .mov / .mpg / .mpeg / .qt / .avi), Shockwave player movies with endings of .dcr) / Windows Media movie (movies with endings of .wmv / .asf / .flv) or Real player (movies with endings of .ram / .rm).
Step 6:
File / URL: If you want play a movie that is stored on your webspace just click the Browse button to the right of the File/URL field. This will bring up the Image Manager where you'll be able to view all the files on your webspace. To select a file to use just click on it. If the file you want to use is not on your wespace then you can upload it to the webspace. Follow the instructions below on how to do this.
Alternativly
if you are linking to a movie on the internet enter the URL (web address) to it, eg: 'http://www.wizz-it.com/pictures/movie1.mpeg' (We recommend including the 'http://' part).
To upload a file to your webspace:
To upload a file press the Upload button in the top right hand corner of the Image Manager and press the Choose Files button in the box that appears. To select a file just click on it. To select multiple files press the control button (if using a PC) or Apple button (if using a Mac). Once uploaded you can then click on the thumbnail to insert it into the File/URL field.
Step 7:
Dimensions: These are the width & height measurements of the media file that you want to display on your web page. You should enter the dimensions of the media file as you want it displayed on the webpage, if you leave these fields blank the media file will display at its default size. Ticking the 'Constrain Properties' box will mean that any resizing will keep it in proportion to it’s original dimensions.
Step 8:
The default settings for the movie are: Loop, autoplay, show menu (eg pause / rewind / play buttons)
If you want to change these settings or enter other advanced settings such as vertical & horizontal space, quality, background colour etc click on the advanced tab and enter the new settings. Click here for more information on the advanced tab settings.
Step 9:
Press the Insert button to insert the movie into the text editor.
Step 10:
When you are finished editing press the Save button at the bottom of the page.
Instructions on how to play videos from other places on the internet:
Before you can play a movie from somewhere else on the internet you'll need to copy the code from the site that hosts the movie. This is normall called the 'embed code'. For example if its YouTube ™ then you'll need to copy the code from the box labeled 'embed' which is found amongst the movie details in the top right hand corner of the page. The code should look something similar to this:
<object width="560" height="340">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6Zj7ps1WTY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6Zj7ps1WTY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>
Step 1:
Click on the Content tab.
Step 2:
Click on the Pages tab.
Step 3:
The list on the page that loads shows the pages that have been created for your site. Click on the page you want to add the video to. To create a new page including a homepage (splashpage) just press the Add Pages button, click here to view help on this subject.
Step 4:
Once on the page scroll down to the text editor. Press the HTML button  which will load the html editor where you can type html code directly into the page.
Step 5:
Click the cursor where you want to insert the movie. If you're not sure just click the cursor at the bottom of the code and the movie will be inserted at the bottom of the content on the page. Having copied the embed code from the site that hosts the video paste it into the html editor (Either by pressing the Edit->Paste button from the browser or for a shortcut if you're on a mac press the Apple button + V, or on a PC press the Control button + V).
Step 6:
Press the Update button and you will see the movie in the text editor (you might not actaully see it playing though).
Step 7:
When you are finished editing press the Save button at the bottom of the page.
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