Our client asked us to add a page to show a YouTube video clip. I just took the existing framework to create the page. It looks pretty lousy right now, however. So, I'm thinking that there needs to be something around the video clip. Something like a picture frame? Or something like a picture of monitor? What should I do about this? I'd greatly appreciate your suggestions.
A background image of something relating to the video itself will make it look more professional and personalised, so users associate it more with your website than youtube itself. Also don't forget if your embedding youtube videos in a site to apply the ie 6 bug fix with a javascript embed command. This will stop users with ie 6 browsers having to click twice to activate the video. It's quite easy to do, check out my example of a properly javascript embedded and personalised youtube video here
Can you share a link? Are you just embedding using the YouTube embed code? You can use SWFobject to detect and embed your SWFs. This is the way recommended by Adobe Dev Net. http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/swfobject.html
Hi sorry for the very late reply i didn't realise you wrote a response. I've already linked the example web page above if you click on the link that says 'here'. No i'm not using the You Tube Embed Code, im using the method you just described above with javascript that adobe recommends. Just view the source of my html page and you will see. All I do is just take the video url from the embed code of the You Tube video and drop it into the javascript in the relevant place.