A note about putting video on your web site

All too often, when we sit down with a new client, we hear the same thing - " Our IT department (or Web developer) has told us that video is too hard to incorporate on our site." This response usually originates from the inability of the CMS or Content Management Software to handle video content.

There are however very simple ways to get around this issue without causing any headaches. To keep this post short here's the simplest way - Once your video has been prepared for distribution on the Web (either as a WMV, Flash or mp4 file etc) simply upload it to one of the many video sharing sites. Youtube is probably the most popular. Once you've done that you have lots of choices. You can either copy the direct link and paste it into your CMS or HTML so that a new window opens to Youtube - or you can embed the video by copying the code from youtube and pasting it into your CMS or HTML.

And that's it, very simple. Now if you want to do more, like create a channel of multiple videos that gets a little more complex - but only a little.

Leave a comment if you have any questions.

Julian.