Question About Embeding Videos

[garybecks]

Hi Guys,

I am new around here so please forgive me if I am posting this thread in the wrong sub forum.

Basically I am creating a sales page and I want to know how to have my videos appear as an image and then be enlarged on the page when clicked (sorry, but I don't know exactly what this is called).

You can take a look at what I am referring to on the sites listed below.

http://www.winautomation.com/addons

http://www.linxboss.com/

I would also like to do this with the images on the page as shown below.

http://www.winautomation.com/features.html

Sorry if my question is not clear but I am not a web designer so my lingo isn't really up to par.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks..

[stoneman30]

To answer your question simply, both of the sites above are showing a static image. Then, when the user clicks on the image, it opens up a modal window to show the video.

The first site in your post uses a popular plugin called Lightbox: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

The second site in your post uses a plugin Pretty Photo: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

I have used LightBox before but I have not used Pretty Photo. Basically, these plugins allow you to create modals that gray out the background of your site and open your image, video or Flash file in a window. The user is then immersed in your content and everything else grays out.

Lightbox is fairly simple to implement if you have some experience with HTML, but it only supports images / slideshows. There are modifications to the script, however, that will make it work with videos. Just do some Googling and you will find it.

Hope that helps.