Adding sound, video, and animation to Web pages is a fun thing to do. But if you're not careful you can drive away the customers you're trying to attract. Don't let multimedia kill your page traffic. These 5 tips will help you create pages with multimedia that work well and don't destroy your site. What tips do you have for using multimedia on Web pages?
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Good list.
I’d only add one more thing: don’t cram lots of multimedia files on one page. Viewing a few youtube videos embedded into one page becomes quite heavy on resource usage, even on fairly recent computers.
Thanks, a good list. But the word multimedia sounds very old fashioned to me. Reminds me of CD-ROMS!
Great tool for multimedia.Now it becomes more interesting to view web pages.
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Good Luck!
Another tip, if you are using multimedia on an entry page, leave it there and don’t replicate on every content page. No matter how cool an entry flash movie or sound bite is, it gets annoying when it starts again and again and again as the visitor navigates through your site.
If you decide you want to implement some video on your site but you need better quality than Youtube can provide then you will need to look at a CDN (content distribution network). These services allow you to serve up large file sizes from multiple hubs allowing for quick streams and buffering. We recently implemented an online course done via weekly video with associated downloads that had file sizes approaching 1 Gb each. Our CDN provider pulled it off with very few problems.
I’d say – never auto-run your videos and page sounds. Let the user decide if they are worthy of listening.
A notable exception would be a band’s site, in my opinion.
By the way, there’s a new video tag in html5, and some browsers already show some support, so if you’re in the html5 club, you might give it a try, while keeping some backup options for the older browsers.
Thanks a lot for such a nice information… this 5 tips help me for Creating Better Multimedia Web Pages
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royal
A seriously good post ever.
Cindrella
hey this is good but this is not what i want i am finding websites that have multimedia on them but i really like your page it would be good for other people i anit got time for stuff like that i am sorry if i didnt i would do it but i cant. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PAGE!
A seriously good post