Weebly Website and Blog Video Attempts

One of the ICT tools I have experimented with is creating a Weebly website located at: : http://fayespace.weebly.com/video.html

The website has been used more as a tool to play with website creation,  especially the picture and video options, than to actually create a working website that is content based.

My first hurdle was the lack of Flash Player in iPads. This limited the functions I could use while working from the iPad. This limitation reduced the amount of time available to experiment with the website creation as they could only occur when I had the laptop at a location where there was available wi fi.

I found that You Tube videos inserted successfully but not the home videos as they require the Weebly Pro version to be visible to the public. As I don't feel like paying for the Pro version at this stage I have created this post so that the video can actually be visible.

Unfortunately this plan was not as simple as I first though it would be.

1. I first tried to send the video directly from my iPad to the blog. That is when I found out that there are  very limited sharing options on the free apps and built in program's  already within the basic iPad model i.e iPad camera. Attempting to use the "from your phone"  option within this blog, under the theory that iPads and phones where nearly the same technology, also failed. Apparently it is cleaver enough to tell the differences but not clever enough to provide an iPad option. 
2. My second attempt was to use Flickr to import the HTML code like I have done on other postings to insert  photos. To do that I needed to create a Flickr account. Setting up the account and uploading the video, of course, did not work like clockwork but it was successfully accomplished without too much drama. But alas, the attempt to import the HTML code also failed. Mostly because this blog program does not ask for, so therefore, does not except HTML codes to insert videos. 
3. Attempt three involved using the link function to take the viewer directly to the video already uploaded onto the Flickr site. This worked but it was still not the desired outcome of showing the video within this blog. Working link: Video in Flickr using the Blooger share option within Flickr produced a very similar result to the link above.

After this, I gave up on Flickr and tried YouTube. 

 I first downloaded the You Tube app. This showed me lots of videos on how to upload a video but there was no ability to actually upload a video. Finally one of the videos mentioned that you need You Tube Capture. After downloading You Tube Capture it finally worked. The only problem now is that after watching the video once , it reverts to a random You Tube video, also about dogs and chickens or some other random You Tube selection. Luckily it will refresh if you click on the blog title.

In hind sight it probably would have been less of a drama to try YouTube in the beginning but this way  I managed to explore the functions of  Flickr, my iPad video functions and limitations as well as. YouTube. Due to my limited times with a laptop and accessible wi fi, the website has not been updated with the YouTube version of the video but still contains the original iPad home video, although only visible under editing.

 

You Tube link: http://youtu.be/xS32ysl13lA

(This is an original video created as an experiment while playing with the video functions on my iPad. One thing this experiment showed me is that I should have held the iPad horizontally instead of vertically).