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Music and Video Controls - Don’t Auto Play!

Posted on: Saturday, March 8th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Video, Web Design

How fast are you with the mouse, just visit some sites that embed music or auto-playing video and you will find out, as you rapidly click around trying to turn off the sound!
It is best when you use video or sound files to be courteous and to allow users to turn it off, turn it […]

Talking People Cute But Not Professional

Posted on: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in: Tips, Best Practices, Video, Web Design

Several months ago you saw all over the Web that animated characters were the rage. Supposedly, according to the animated site owners, animated characters were said to increase sales.  Here’s an example www.SitePal.com.
Personally I found these characters which typically start talking right when the page loads annoying and I simply cannot react quickly enough to […]

Using Multimedia and Blogs

Posted on: Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 in: Tips, Best Practices, Video

Nancy’s post for today is found at Blog-World Watch and is on the topic of using multimedia on your website and using blogs to draw readers into conversation.
You can visit the post on Earth-Ship.org now. 

Why You Should Add Video to Your Website

Posted on: Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 in: SEO Tactics, Video

With Universal Search being delivered web wide, you really should consider as part of your marketing plan to add video to your website in the near future.
I like video for clients as when the video is loaded onto Google Video as well as shown on the site, the video can actually appear as a link above […]