This article will teach you how to add a video to your website very easy and simple.  The below HTML codes are examples of how you can add a video file to your website.

Although adding a video to your website makes your site interesting and look cool; you should try not to.  Adding a video to your website use alot of your bandwidth.  I also don’t recommend it because some movie files are in a massively large size.  So if you have a webhost with 100MB of disk space, adding only couple short videos would eat up that space.

So, let’s get started, first upload your video file to your host, if you don’t know how read my What is FTP and How Does it Work article because you will upload the video through FTP. Then change the below code’s “src” adress to the directory where you upload the video, for example ; if you upload the video to www.your-web-site.com/video/movie1.avi then you should change the “src” (http://yourfile.avi) adress of the below code to this.

<embed src="http://yourfile.avi" width="320" height="283" autostart="1" showcontrols="1" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/"> </embed><br />

If you add the above code to your website you will get this: