Web Page Help Wanted

[ibroker]

I need some help.

I'm putting together a web site using MS Frontpage and I'm have a couple of problems

I want to place a link to a video file. wma or avi
but when I load it all to the server it will not play, the file only appears as a X. However it will play in my own browser when I check it off line. Do I need to embed some sort of media player on the page to where it is linked. The file should be viewed in "take a ride in my Noble here" (I think I need to reword that!!!)

Also when I place the file onto a page frontpage tells me its out of memory.

<a href="http://home.btconnect.com/Eley/homepage.html">http://home.btconnect.com/Eley/homepage.html</a>

>>> Edited by ibroker on Tuesday 9th March 08:08

>>> Edited by ibroker on Tuesday 9th March 08:09

[Plotloss]

The webpage is looking for this file

dynsrc="../../My%20Pictures/Web%20pics/3gh.wmf.wmv

Now I am guessing that you dont have a directory on your webspace called my pictures/web pics and this is in fact on your PC.

You need to change the code so it points to the online version of that video that you have uploaded to your webspace.

I think.

Personally I would ditch Frontpage post haste and get Dreamweaver. Its so much easier to understand.

>> Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 9th March 08:12

[ibroker]

Sorry. But its going to take a while for the penny to drop.

To insert a picture onto a page it finds it from your file on your pc and the copies it to the frontpage file where it is then uploaded. Why is this different for a video file. This seems to get left behind

[robertuk]

Quite a few of your files have double extensions.

http://home.btconnect.com/Eley/3RFRONT2.JPG.jpg

Try and make all filenames lowercase with one extension. This makes changes/additions easy.

(Its called a naming convention - we all use the same format everyone is happy. )

Don't give up !

Stick with it. Frontpage is not as popular but is still useful....beats hand coding anyway.

Ramesh