Please enjoy LaunchDM
LaunchDM does stellar design, development,
UI and print work for small businesses with big plans, Fortune 100
companies, national museums and everything in between.
828 Penn Ave., Wyomissing, PA 19610
610-898-1330 | 610-898-8262
For more info please contact us.
Retain and Entertain Visitors with YouTube Videos on Your Site
Raw Markup – Here is a simple list of links to videos on YouTube. This code is very basic without any unnecessary markup.
<ul id='youtube_list'>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xCxfoAwlM'>LaunchDM Social Media Presentation</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmXjVLBta0'>Andy with his Hammer</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnOltMhxURU'>LaunchDM Philly Fans</a></li>
</ul>
Default Browser Display (note clicking these links takes you to another site, YouTube)
Using a combination of Javascript and css, we retrieve the appropriate preview image from YouTube to improve the appearance. Addtionally, a clicked video plays within a lightbox without ever leaving our site. <geek note>All of this work is done client side.</geek note>
<geek note>If you are familiar with disabling javascript, give it a shot and notice how this code degrades gracefully. Graceful degradation is good for a sans-Javascript environment and for your SEO.</geek note>