Tech Question

[dhaab]

Me and a friend have a small video business that we do on the side. We want to create a business website as cheaply as possible that will give us the ability to show video examples that we've produced. I've taken a few classes in HTML and web page design, but I'm still pretty skittish about what I need to do here. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Dr.Gonzo]

Originally posted by dhaab@Feb 22 2004, 10:50 PM
Me and a friend have a small video business that we do on the side. We want to create a business website as cheaply as possible that will give us the ability to show video examples that we've produced. I've taken a few classes in HTML and web page design, but I'm still pretty skittish about what I need to do here. Any advice would be appreciated.

Pick a domain name and hosting company. Register your domain name with a Registrar service and follow your hosting company's instructions for setting it all up. Upload your files.

Will you want to do streaming video, or just downloads? Anything fancy? Grote knows a lot about the business side of setting up websites, he's probably your best resource. I am a web developer, so anything on the development side that grote can't answer, which probably isn't anything, I can help you with.

[Indu WangZi]

Re-boot??

Shake it really, really hard...

I got nothing else..

[SLUBLUE]

get yourself a dreamweaver patch and run it through live update. That should clear up your hack.

[madyaks]

Find a site you really like that does the same sort of thing and talk to them, many people who do it themselves are proud to talk about whats involved.

[TTB]

Be careful...if you start making lots of dough you might be tempted to buy an evil SUV

[madyaks]

And any chance we get to watch some of these " B) videos"?

[ironman]

What is your primary goal? To stream the videos or to make money?

Will you be offering the videos for download?

What format are they in?

How large are the videos?

Will they be popular or are they market specific?

What format are the videos in now?

Will the videos require updates or are they static?

[dhaab]

Originally posted by pgrote@Feb 23 2004, 01:25 AM
What is your primary goal? To stream the videos or to make money?

Will you be offering the videos for download?

What format are they in?

How large are the videos?

Will they be popular or are they market specific?

What format are the videos in now?

Will the videos require updates or are they static?

Primary goal is to show potential customers what kinds of video we can produce for them. We want to potentially make this business our primary source of income. Not just on the side...as in no more answering to "the man".

No downloaded videos. Just want to give internet customers the ability to watch them on our website.

We use Final Cut Pro to produce the videos. The format is quicktime/NTSC.

We would like to have 3 different videos that are about 2 to 5 minutes long.

The videos will not need to be updated.

Thanks again for your input.

[ironman]

Sounds very easy.

There are two things to consider:

1) You'll need to find a hosting plan that offers a nice amount of bandwidth. How large are the videos in megabyte size?

2) If you're not comfortable doing the site or want to spend your time doing something else, I suggest http://www.programmingbids.com. You can put the project out for bid. I have used this service in the past and love it.

Let me know the size and I can toss you a couple of reputable hosting companies.

[SLUBLUE]

make sure you flush your cache into your 1099.ee slot

[dhaab]

Originally posted by pgrote@Feb 23 2004, 10:10 AM
Sounds very easy.

There are two things to consider:

1) You'll need to find a hosting plan that offers a nice amount of bandwidth. How large are the videos in megabyte size?

2) If you're not comfortable doing the site or want to spend your time doing something else, I suggest http://www.programmingbids.com. You can put the project out for bid. I have used this service in the past and love it.

Let me know the size and I can toss you a couple of reputable hosting companies.

That's the problem, pgrote, I don't have a clue how much bandwidth I need to be able to use these videos on the internet. I have never transfered video to a server like this, so I'm lost as to how much bandwidth I need to get it done. Any suggestions?

[ironman]

Yep. Just tell me how big the files are now.

You can look at your folder and it'll tell you how large the files are.