Over time your website runs the risk of having out dated technologies and may lack features that allow it to play well with new technologies. When I created the JMDesign website a year ago Flash videos players were all the rage. I decided to use JW Player as my Flash video player because of its rock solid platform, options and support. Times have changed and as Apple steadily becomes a force in the web standards industry, HTML 5 is in and Flash is being phased out to play video on the web. As you probably know any iOS device such as the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch cannot play Flash natively. I looked for alternatives, but none presented themselves until last week. Vimeo announced an embed code that detected device connectivity and delivered content accordingly. This was huge because I could now create a site that would work across any platform.
Over the past week I have made these updates to my site
- Changed all the video embed code (JW Player and Vimeo) on my website to Vimeo’s new embed code.
- Uploaded all the videos my website to Vimeo that were being played from my server as MP4 and FLV files.
- Added a Twitter feed to the Pro Blog and a Follow us on Twitter link to all site footers.
- Added social media links to every post on the Pro Blog.
- Added social media links to the player page.
