Most customizable web platform to divulge video work?

rawfa

rawfa

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Hi guys,

I´m not sure if I´m posting on the right subforum, so MODS, feel free to move it.
I will soon start working on a series of 5min shorts and I was wondering what is the most customizable web platform to divulge video work? I´m not a web designer but I want the freedom to customize where to embed the vimeo videos, the wallpaper, look and feel of the website. It would also be good if it was a well known platform host (tumblr, blogger, I have no idea) that we know won´t be broke by tomorrow.
Other then creating a website I´m also planning on following the usual routine (youtube channel, facebook channel, etc).
Anyway, I´m really new at self promoting, so any tips would actually be welcome.

cheers

Rafa
 
Wordpress is a great option with literally thousands of web page designs to choose from (some free some not). I've got nearly no background in web design and was able to pick up Wordpress pretty easily when I started working on it.

Adam
 
Guys, I´ve played with Wordpress for a while and most of the customizations I need required me to pay for an upgrade.

I´m making some tests wit Blogger and I´m not finding it hard to get where I want to be, but I´m having trouble applying the changes I make. For instance, I go to "design", "background image", I click over the current image thumbnail, I upload the image I want to use, I click on "done" and then I click on "Apply to blog"...the thumbnail gets updated but the blog background does not! This also happens when I try to change the posts´ letters´ colors and a couple of other settings. In the beginning I thought it could be the browser (I´m using chrome), but I´ve tried on IE and Firefox and it´s the same. I can only change these settings ONE first time each time I choose a different template...which makes me start from scratch.

Any thoughts?
 
rawfa said:
Guys, I´ve played with Wordpress for a while and most of the customizations I need required me to pay for an upgrade.

I´m making some tests wit Blogger and I´m not finding it hard to get where I want to be, but I´m having trouble applying the changes I make. For instance, I go to "design", "background image", I click over the current image thumbnail, I upload the image I want to use, I click on "done" and then I click on "Apply to blog"...the thumbnail gets updated but the blog background does not! This also happens when I try to change the posts´ letters´ colors and a couple of other settings. In the beginning I thought it could be the browser (I´m using chrome), but I´ve tried on IE and Firefox and it´s the same. I can only change these settings ONE first time each time I choose a different template...which makes me start from scratch.

Any thoughts?
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Unfortunately these are probably things one would take up in some sort of 'user forum' of the blog itself... I've only setup a couple of blogs... then let them lie fallow for years... So, I can't say I'm intimately knowledgeable about how to customize the 'look'.

That said, I did look at Vimeo's 'custom API' for writing custom interfaces with javascript, and access Vimeo hosted media... unfortunately for the widget I'm writing... they don't support setting such things as playback rate, or 'time' so one can perform simple shuttle operations on video streams... And I don't know how one would 'integrate' such a widget into one's 'blog' if one wanted to...
 
The main change I want to make is to force the jpeg I´ve uploaded as the background to resize along the rest of the blog when you open it in a smaller window or a different resolution (right now it doesn´t do that, so depending on your screen resolution the background will have a layer partially covering it). Here is the blog so you can see what I´m talking about http://paposdementes.blogspot.com.br/
I´ve also uploaded a jpeg with some other minor changes I´d like to be able to do: Mudanças blog.jpg
 
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