[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

your best way is to leverage one of the many players already out there – here’s a good start:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jquery+video+player

jquery is a popular (and free) javascript library that lots of people have extended for this sort of thing. mootools is another library you could consider.

some video players are free, some cost a few bucks. your choice. also, if you want to embed truly compatible video, you’ll need a few versions so that people who don’t have flash can see the video. google “html5 video” to learn more about that…

but it’s not required, of course – you can just do a flash overlay too. but might as well leverage a 3rd party library with examples and all of that rather than re-inventing the wheel…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

well – have you verified that $id has a value by dumping that to the screen? perhaps it’s trying to just make the dir sans the id value if that is blank. it shouldn’t be, but it’s worth checking.

also check the apache err log to see what php put in there wrt the error…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

Hello…

Well – hard to say as I don’t know what you’re using now, but any decent cms will offer that type of functionality – WordPress, Drupal, etc…

What are you using now?

Sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

Hello…

You can download and install a variety of WordPress themes – any compatible theme is all contained in a single folder and has the same files. Then you can alter those to your heart’s content and upload them via FTP to the WordPress install.

(you can also edit theme files via a simple editor in WordPress itself, but it’s easier to do that offline in your local HTML editor and then just upload ’em)

If you do that, it’s always easier to try to find a theme similar to what you want your site to look like, although you really can make any design into a theme with enough time and practice.

Sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

Hello…

No – you cannot manage an existing site wi WordPress. All content is created and handled by that app, so you need to work in WordPress to manage content.

You can manage your theme pages in dreamweaver, though. They are just php, JavaScript and CSS files.

Does that make sense?

Sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

Hello…

WordPress is relatively easy to use wrt maintaining a website. Doing custom templates takes a bit more experience, but if you find a stock one you like, then you should find it pretty easy to work with.

Not knowing your comfort level, it’s hard to be more specific.

Sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not quite following you – are you asking how to do this in your current cms? or do you want to do something custom?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

hmm – the source is a bit messy, but at a minimum you can get rid of the large collection of non-breaking space tags ( ) before it – that might help?

if not, please re-post…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

back in the day you were either netscape or internet explorer, and so the continued usage of netscape is sort of a default way of saying that you are of that model of compliance…

and firefox evolved out of netscape’s ashes so it all makes sense…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

that does seem to be working better! for some reason, testing “netscape” seems very dated and would make me nervous that such a test might fail at some point in the future, but other than that, it does seem to be good to go…