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14/08/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash
Avoid clumsy YouTube content by adding a DVD-style chapter navigation system to your site. Paul Wyatt explains how to customise your videos
At a recent ‘Best Website of the Year’ judging day I was shocked by the amount of website video material that had been sloppily embedded into content pages via YouTube. This material stuck out like a sore thumb and was completely out of look and feel with the rest of the sites. For a blog it’s fine; for a portfolio or a company’s showcase site, forget it. It looks unprofessional and sloppy.
Instead, make your own video pages in Flash. Entertain and excite your visitors with a custom design and some great interactivity. Make it big, make it bold, make it loud. Grab your visitors’ attention!
This Flash tutorial will show you how to create a DVD-style chapter navigation system for streaming FLVs. We’ll use a simple bit of code, some ingenuity for creating buttons and an interface that will appeal to visitors and really help to sell the content.
To inspire us further, we’ve got advice from the web’s very own celebrity and entertainment queen, Susy Johnson. Susy works across a number of websites, including The Hallmark Channel, Diva TV and Movies 24, and here she gives us her pick of the best entertainment websites. Web content specialist Sam Peliza, senior web producer at Virgin Media, also tells us that Flash is great and good design never hurts. She gives us her expert tips.
About the author:
Name: Paul Wyatt
Site: www.paulwyatt.co.uk
Areas of expertise: Interactive web design, motion graphics and video
Clients: The X Factor, Fanta, Smirnoff and Research Studios
Best biscuit: Happy Faces, because they’re so damn cheerful
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flashist / 17/08/2008 / 16:52 / http://www.flashist.co.uk
Thanks for this tutorial, really insightfull and useful. I agree about Youtube as well, its so sloppy for a company and the quality is very bad in comparison to whats possible.
