In the first years of the Internet, connections where slow and expensive, computers didn't have much multimedia power and almost all shared information was mainly text-based. Websites looked much like a boring word document, some sites included a few images increasing download time. This mainly text-based experience was more than enough for the first Internet surfers. Would you like to see how the old Web looked like? Visit: http://web.archive.org/ and find out !
The images above show the enormous difference between the first versions of the websites (left image) and the latest ones (right image). And this is only a simple example without considering other modern concepts like interactivity or personalized web browsing.
You probably asked yourself how to use different kinds of media in your on-line publications. Maybe you came across some websites that included video, sound, animations or presentations. For the 21st century presentations or blogging, adding media from different sources enables a hole new dynamic. And there are a number of advantages:
- Once you've uploaded your content to a video-sharing site, it's usually easy to not just link to it but directly embed it into pages on your Web site. Video-sharing sites typically let you control the size of the embedded video and even which controls appear on it. This gives your users a seamless experience.
- When you host your video on a video-sharing site, you're letting that site handle the nuts and bolts of serving that video. If 20 people at once want to download your video in high-definition, they provide a fast enough upstream connection to satisfy every user. The sites also handle storing and backing your video so that you don't have to have the infrastructure in place.
- But there are some drawbacks or potential problems too:
- When your video sits on another site, you're not in full control of it. If that site decides to change their link format, embedded player or how much advertising they put on videos they server, it'll affect you. If their service slows down, your video will suffer. Keeping your video under your own control ensures that it'll always be displayed the way that you want it to.
- While most Web browsers accommodate many audio, video, and image file formats, problems can happen. Adding multimedia increases the number of codecs and plugins a browser needs to load the page. The number of opportunities for bugs to creep into your site goes up as well. Multimedia also leaves you open to a third-party problem, such as a video being removed from YouTube, which will leave a blank space in any post in which you have embedded the video.
A quick example on how to use an embed code
Upload to Goear and get the embed code for blogger
Insert the embed code in a blogger post
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