Sailing Website Helps
I just completed the research and work to add a new page called "Virtual Sailing" to my web site, that has video clips . Here is the URL to see what I have done: www.the-sailors-place.com/virtual_sailing.htm
After hours of Internet research I found a site where all you have to do is make a couple of entries they request, click on four items and it generates the code necessary to play a video on a web page. The site is: http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step2.php?mediatype=WindowsMedia
The first thing you have to do before going to the above site for code is to find a video file you want on your site. That took me a lot more time than I thought it would but I found a perfect one through searching in Yahoo.com Videos. It showed Flying Scots sailing around on a beautiful lake prior to starting a race. Since I owned a Flying Scot in 1973 and 1974 (picture above) it was a perfect video to use. I put the video file in the root directory of my web site so that it was easy to access.
I used "copy and paste" to put the code generated by the above site into my web site. When I did that I could not get the video file to play. I looked at the html code in FrontPage and found that everytime there was supposed to be a "<" or ">" some code was generated by FrontPage instead of those symbols when I pasted direct from the site above. That code had to be removed and I started to do it - one by one but then I got an idea. I tried pasting the code into NotePad which saves files in the ".txt" format and then doing a copy and paste into my web site and that worked just fine.
The "Virtual Sailing" page was fun to develop because it involved researching the availability of Sailing Simulators. The ones I found are listed on the page and most of them have DEMO Programs to download so that you can see what the simulator looks and feels like. I downloaded most of the DEMOs and tried them out and I think I will treat myself to one of them for Christmas. I will let you know which one I liked the best and purchased when I get around to it.
Also, you might like the reference URL for the html code that I used to play the MIDI and MP3 music on my music pages. The place to go to get the code you copy and paste into your site is: www.hypergurl.com/music.html
After hours of Internet research I found a site where all you have to do is make a couple of entries they request, click on four items and it generates the code necessary to play a video on a web page. The site is: http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step2.php?mediatype=WindowsMedia
The first thing you have to do before going to the above site for code is to find a video file you want on your site. That took me a lot more time than I thought it would but I found a perfect one through searching in Yahoo.com Videos. It showed Flying Scots sailing around on a beautiful lake prior to starting a race. Since I owned a Flying Scot in 1973 and 1974 (picture above) it was a perfect video to use. I put the video file in the root directory of my web site so that it was easy to access.
I used "copy and paste" to put the code generated by the above site into my web site. When I did that I could not get the video file to play. I looked at the html code in FrontPage and found that everytime there was supposed to be a "<" or ">" some code was generated by FrontPage instead of those symbols when I pasted direct from the site above. That code had to be removed and I started to do it - one by one but then I got an idea. I tried pasting the code into NotePad which saves files in the ".txt" format and then doing a copy and paste into my web site and that worked just fine.
The "Virtual Sailing" page was fun to develop because it involved researching the availability of Sailing Simulators. The ones I found are listed on the page and most of them have DEMO Programs to download so that you can see what the simulator looks and feels like. I downloaded most of the DEMOs and tried them out and I think I will treat myself to one of them for Christmas. I will let you know which one I liked the best and purchased when I get around to it.
Also, you might like the reference URL for the html code that I used to play the MIDI and MP3 music on my music pages. The place to go to get the code you copy and paste into your site is: www.hypergurl.com/music.html
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