Adding Video clips

Wild Apricot allows you to use many popular dedicated video hosting platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh or Flickr and very easily embed videos into your Wild Apricot pages. To your site visitors for all sense and purposes, this will look just like as if videos were stored on your own website. The basic process is very straightforward and does not require any technical skills.

YouTube

1. Goto YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com

2. Find desired video and click on it. YouTube will start loading video and on the right site there will be Embed: field with a code inside.

3. Highlight and copy this code:

4. Open your own Wild Apricot web page in edit mode.

5. Edit toolbar will appear. With a mouse, click on the page where you would like you video to appear and then click on <S> button:

6. "Insert HTML snippet or script " window will appear. Paste the code in the window.

7. Click on [Publish] button and your Wild Apricot webpage will show embedded video:

Check following options if the video is not playing:

• Make sure that your browser has Flash plug in is installed
• Sufficient internet speed

For more detailed instructions on how to place YouTube video link go to: http://youtube.com/sharing

Similar services

There are many other similar services, some examples:

1. Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com

2. Veoh: http://www.veoh.com

3. Flickr online photo and video management application: http://www.flickr.com/

Troubleshooting

If the inserted video overlaps the fly-out website menu add the following parameter to the video script: wmode="opaque"