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Re: How Not To Network…

Richard McLean — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:53:36 -0000

Have also received a lot of these...

Re: Facebook FanPage: Adding An OptIn Box To Your

Charly Leetham — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:46:43 -0000

Hi James, thanks for the heads up. We have been updating the site. The video now displays.

Re: Facebook FanPage: Adding An OptIn Box To Your

James Scholes — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:29:50 -0000

Dunno about anyone else but this videos not playing for me

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:25:11 -0000

Hey thanks Andrew - can you share how I got you here? lol.
Glad you like the videos.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:23:07 -0000

Hi, you can always use the JW Player shortcode with the direct link to your video - you don't need to use the External Media process. Then you can copy and paste the shortcode, or just edit the link.

Under the SETTINGS tab for JW Player in wp-admin, you can change your colours etc. You can several different players and use them in different posts depending on what you want to do. I do this when I need to have videos display in different sizes.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:20:43 -0000

bill, Try refreshing the page - sometimes the Amazon S3 links expire and the page needs to be reloaded.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:20:05 -0000

swim - there is a setting under the Advanced Tab when you upload your video that limits embedding. You can edit the settings to change this. See the attached image.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Andrew — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:05:51 -0000

Awesome Charly, I love how you got me here. And your videos are great too.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

swim — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:35:18 -0000

Charly... some of the videos I post via youtube say that the embedding is restricted because of youtube... have you found any solutions from this?

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Bill Wright — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:33:01 -0000

Tremendously helpful! Wish I had discovered you sooner!

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

bill — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:05:38 -0000

I was unable to load the last two videos - is there a problem on the site or is me?

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

エラ — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:55:53 -0000

I also have a question:
1. After the video is embedded, is it possible to replace the videos without repeating the whole process? On this homepage I just change the number of each video without doing anything.
2. Is it possible to change the skin or colors of the player after it is embedded? What if I want to design each video differently for each page? Can I use several designs?

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

エラ — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:49:29 -0000

Thank you so much. Really clear, understandable and nice voice. Without you　I wouldn't be abｌe to do that.　I hope you continue your great work!:)))))

Re: Has Facebook Changed Your Default Email Address?

Glori Surban — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:38:37 -0000

I've noticed this too. That was pretty sneaky of them...

Re: Does Facebook Becoming A Publicly Traded Entity Affect my Privacy?

Wendy Chamberlain — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:40:09 -0000

Hi Charly,

Food for thought, that's for sure. Have you seen many people post that legal disclaimer on Facebook?

Wendy

Re: Has Facebook Changed Your Default Email Address?

Melinda — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:58:11 -0000

Yes, mine has been changed too. And I notice that I can't delete the facebook email address. In fact, I can't seem to take it off my about page and replace it with my real email.

Re: Does Facebook Becoming A Publicly Traded Entity Affect my Privacy?

Mullettez — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:53:51 -0000

Hi Charly, I also saw that post in my facebook feed - i suppose having it there is a good safety measure. Thanks for sharing this info.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Steve — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:10:10 -0000

They work today. In both FF13 and Safari 5.1.7 on my Mac. They didn't work in either browser yesterday... Weird...

Steve

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:12:17 -0000

Hi Steve, Thanks for the heads up. I've just checked everything and it seems to be o.k. Can you let me know if you are still having problems? Maybe try forcing a browser refresh and see if it clears up?

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:08:07 -0000

Just FYI, all your videos on this page no longer work properly. I'm getting "Video not found or access denied" messages every time I click "Play".

Re: Help Rhi Attend The International Science Fair

tinagleisner — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 09:47:25 -0000

What fun to learn about Rhi's upcoming trip & hope she shares a story or two when she returns. Also like changes you've made to your blog.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Charly Leetham — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:50:16 -0000

Hi Bill,

There are several ways to do this...

One way is to use the jwplayer shortcode and make the player smaller, like 250px by 150px (or whatever aspect ration works for the videos), through the style sheet you'll be able to make it so those videos layout in a grid. When you want to add a new video, you simply edit the page or post and add it in, rather than using separate posts. Unfortunately, this will make the videos play in the smaller player AND if you're trying to deploy content to different membership levels (if you run a membership site) it can be problematic.

If you are using posts, you could "tag" the posts to indicate they have a video on them, and then use a theme template to create the grid layout. This requires a bit of thought so you can retrieve the appropriate information, but we've used a similar approach of a few membership sites lately.

With either of these approaches, you could also use a lightbox effect. Rather than embedding the video on the page, use the thumbnail image and a lightbox plugin - when the image is clicked, the video pops up (full size) in a hover box. Much like we've done with the "watch our video demo" widget at the bottom of this site: http://organizeyourlife.com...

This takes a bit of work to accomplish, because you have to include the right lightbox Java code etc. I've also found that most light box plugins that work with JW Player fall back to Flash mode, which renders the functionality useless on IOS devices. We created a function for another membership site recently, that embeds videos in a grid format, and uses Shdowbox JS (http://www.shadowbox-js.com/) to do the hoverboxes. We detect if an IOS device is used and embeds the html code. We created the function in the category templates AND deployed a shortcode so the function could be used within specific pages or posts.

In summary, do it manually on a page or a post. Or use your category templates to create the effect you're looking. I'm positive there's other ways too, but these are the two ways we tend to do it.

Charly.

Re: Using JW Player, WordPress, Amazon S3 & Youtube

Bill Anderson — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:56:21 -0000

Hi Charly,
Great info you have.

Question,
Can I make it so all my videos show up on 1 page, with thumbnail icon's and be able to click on the thumbnail icons to play that particular video above?
As it is, I have to make a new post for every video I want to share on my site.
I'd rather have 1 page showing thumbnails and the user can pick and choose which 1 to watch?

Thank you,
Bill Anderson

Re: Your Business, You and Credit Card Security

Charly Leetham — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:55:38 -0000

That was my other thought Kathie --- were's the equality for the merchants? I know how many hoops I had to jump through to get my merchant facility and take payments online -- and I'm pretty certain that I wouldn't be able to say "no PIN".... There is something sadly lacking in the whole process.

Re: Your Business, You and Credit Card Security

Kathie — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:39:05 -0000

It's not just the customers who suffer but the merchants too. I had a situation last year when someone was processing stolen credit cards (many of them) on my shopping cart and I had no way of knowing that was the case, till I got chargeback requests several weeks later through the NAB. I was not happy and it seems that the banks do nothing to protect the customer or the merchant. They're basically just in it for themselves. Not happy Jan...