Plotting a movie strategy in Iweb

I have a fishing website in my own domain space. I'll be adding movies to it in the new year and these will reside on a MobileMe space to get around my web hoster's restrictions on bandwidth and space by editing the code to specify the movie location. That part is cool.
However, to mount the movies, I have three choices: use a blank page and insert movies using "Choose", use a podcast, or use a movie page.
I'm leaning toward using a blank page so I can format it the way I like. I'm not happy with the podcast insisting on offering a square movie image. I'd be happy with podcast if that format could be changed. A movie page seems to be geared to a single movie and I'll be adding multiple movies on a single page (instructional short clips) so it doesn't seem to be the best choice.
I'd just like a confirmation that this approach seems reasonable and that I'm not missing something.
Message was edited by: Rusty Rat

Rusty Rat wrote:
A movie page seems to be geared to a single movie and I'll be adding multiple movies on a single page (instructional short clips) so it doesn't seem to be the best choice.
A _My Albums_ page lets you quickly and easily index all your photo and movie pages on one elegant page. See towards the end of this _video tutorial_.

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You have to create a QTL file that opens the QT movie in the player. Based on the settings it opens in Full Screen.
You may want to read this:
[QuitTime Tutorials and more|http://www.apple.com/quicktime>
[Launching QuickTime Player from a Text Link |http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/speci al-11.html]
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Or use DivX of Flash Video.
Samples here: http://web.mac.com/wyodor/iFrame/

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Everything works fine in the program, but when published to site or folder, photos are there, but won't enlarge. The movie thumbnail shows with the little movie icon in the corner, but clicking does nothing.

On all of your pages you have an image that appears to cover the photos preventing them from being clicked on.
Move it to the back via the Arrange menu or get rid of it.
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Also thre are some files missing for the TV page as seen in the Activity window (Command+Option+A) for the page. Publish the site to a folder on your hard drive and open it there. Check to see if the movies play OK (after you fix that overlaying image issue). If they do then the problem lies in the uploading of the files.
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I recently move my iWeb Domain to a new Macbook Pro..after Published the iWeb...the message window shown visit the website as web.me.com/xxx instead www.xxx.com
Why?
i try to reset the personal domain in MobileMe ,remove it and add it again...now re-published...the same result...and when click on Visit...the URL shown web.me.com/xxx instead www.xxx.com
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All right now...
I Delete the iWeb.plist (UserID-Library-Preferences-com.apple.iweb.plist) and re-publish it again...Now...huh...No Problem at all...
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Can't get movie compressed for iweb

B"H
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Relative Mac noob; please be kind. I think I'm going to answer my own question, anyway, but I thought I'd ask... and I'll cross-post in the iWeb section, too.
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Bill from CT

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