iWeb for Musicians

iWeb for Musicians


Trick It Out
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This section contains some hints and tips on how to add extra features to your website.
These include:
Building Graphics & Reducing File Sizes
“Trick” Photography
PDF files & E Books
Creating Downloads
Web Banners
Contact Forms
Scrolling Text & Images
An Introduction to displaying visual media
Copyright © Roddy McKay - 2009 - All Rights Reserved

With the introduction of iWeb ’08 we got the Web Widget feature. The most useful of these is the HTML snippet.
The THING down below that’s probably driving you crazy was made up in Keynote and exported in QuickTime format. It was then uploaded to my server and appears on this page courtesy of the code you will see next to it.
This code is pasted into an HTML snippet box.
The variables are marked in blue.
Height & Width are adjusted to suit your movie size.
The URL is the path to your .mov file on your server.
Autoplay, Controller & Loop can be “true” or “false”.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="400"
HEIGHT="380" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="http://www.mywebsite.com/FolderName/FileName.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="false">
<EMBED SRC="http://www.mywebsite.com/FolderName/FileName.mov" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="380" AUTOPLAY="true"
CONTROLLER="false"
LOOP="true"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
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