Adding youtube Video
Adding video to your ship's website is a good way to show how much fun your group is and entice people to join.
The greatest amount of work in adding video is in producing the video itself. Adding it to your website is easy.
This guide is not intended to be a guideline in video production, only some insight in getting your finished videos up on your website.
youtube actually makes it easy for you as well. Upload your video and on the page for your video there will be an embed code. All you have to do is copy and paste it into your website's html and then upload the new file, and you are done.
All you need to do, once the video has been uploaded to youtube, is cut and paste the "embed" code for the video into your webpage source.
The embed code will look like this:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NwyigNJtUAQ&hl=en&fs=1"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NwyigNJtUAQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed> </object>Results in:
It should look like this:
Save your web page file, and upload to your site. done!
There are other hosting providers beyond youtube including google video, and others.
youtube.com has become the de facto standard.
You can also host it on your own web hosting servers, but the bandwidth is a limiting factor. Better to host it on youtube.
