Best Video Website

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Gladiator

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Which website template company like bigfolio or bludomain is the best for video? Are there webite templates designed for videographers as opposed to getting one designed for photographers and adding video? Or, is the best way to go a highend blog, and if so, which one? Thanks in advance!
 
The standard CMS's are fine. Drupal is my favorite, but for something like that you don't need the robustness is gives you. Wordpress is a standard when you don't want to design your own.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
I was thinking the opposite. Wordpress is highly customizable .
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You're probably right. I have this problem where I get used to and good at working at something, and then I get frustrated with everything else and decide it's the product's fault until I actually give it a chance.

As far as what wordpress is, look it up. Google is your friend. A blog is one large focus of the system, but it's the acronym I posted before: a content management system. It does all sorts of stuff relating to organization and distributing data. You'll really need to look it up and see for yourself to understand what that means.
 
As was said in another thread, there's a lot to be said for buying a site in the morning and be working on something in your field in the afternoon.

Wordpress like any other software, isn't going to have you doing that.

For my own preferences, I chose Dreamweaver to build my site. During my current updating, the thought of just going and buying something "done" sure sounds like a good idea.

My primary reason for choosing Dreamweaver was it's ability to build in a flash player to host my own video clips. IMO, embedding a video clip is not a sign of a professional or their site. Embedding is what you do when you want to show your buddies the cell phone video clip from last night's drunken fiasco, and put it on your MySpace page.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Gladiator said:
Is Wordpress a blog, or is it added to a blog to make it better? Thanks!
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The standard WordPress install includes the ability to make static "pages" as well as blog "posts" in categories. So you can make "pages" such as "About Gladiator Productions", "Contact Us", "Profile", "Completed Projects", "Now in Production", etc.

And you can have a "News" or "Blog" section in blog format (where people can comment on your posts) with categories such as "prodution notes" where you post about things going on with your production, not things that need their own permanent page. Restaurant reviews, movie recommendations, whatever. These work best as blog categories.

These two ways of presenting content on your site are standard in WordPress. In the main menu (called the "Dashboard") you simply select "Add New Post" for blog or "Add New Page" to add a new section to your site.

I'm now converting my last Dreamweaver customer over to a magazine theme so she can upload her own content, and I will probably never use DW again.
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I'm currently revising my site with what is called a "magazine theme" for Wordpress. This uses some clever hacks to lay out your site with different blog categories appearing in different locations on the main page. Google "Magazine themes for WordPress" for more info on this option. Requires many more hours of customization.

Chip is basically right about embedding players vs. hosting your own content, but attitudes and stigmas seem to be changing as people who grew up with YouTube increase in proportion of web users.
 
kyotonils said:
The standard WordPress install includes the ability to make static "pages" as well as blog "posts" in categories. So you can make "pages" such as "About Gladiator Productions", "Contact Us", "Profile", "Completed Projects", "Now in Production", etc.

And you can have a "News" or "Blog" section in blog format (where people can comment on your posts) with categories such as "prodution notes" where you post about things going on with your production, not things that need their own permanent page. Restaurant reviews, movie recommendations, whatever. These work best as blog categories.

These two ways of presenting content on your site are standard in WordPress. In the main menu (called the "Dashboard") you simply select "Add New Post" for blog or "Add New Page" to add a new section to your site.

I'm now converting my last Dreamweaver customer over to a magazine theme so she can upload her own content, and I will probably never use DW again.
Totally optional:
I'm currently revising my site with what is called a "magazine theme" for Wordpress. This uses some clever hacks to lay out your site with different blog categories appearing in different locations on the main page. Google "Magazine themes for WordPress" for more info on this option. Requires many more hours of customization.

Chip is basically right about embedding players vs. hosting your own content, but attitudes and stigmas seem to be changing as people who grew up with YouTube increase in proportion of web users.
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Thanks kyotonils!
 
ctb1010 said:
Going back to the initial question, in which you brought up Bludomain, you can check out my wedding website at http://www.emotionpicturesnyc.com I used Bludomain's Emanuel Template.
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I suppose, the main page with nothing but "Enter" on it (this is how "start page" looked in times of Netscape 1.0) should warn a visitor that when he proceeds, an enormous video clip will start loading, freezing the browser for half a minute. "A script in this movie causes Adobe Flash player to run slowly. Abort?" Absolutely.

It is amazing how many filmmakers and photogs think that their web presence looks fine, while it actually does them disservice.
 
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