Video clips on iweb pages

I have several small quicktimes on several of my iweb pages to show samples of my work. Is there a way in iweb that I can place a thumbnail that visitors can click on to open that specific video file?
I'm looking for a way to avoid a visitor having to wait a while to download all videos on a given page even if they only want to watch a certain one.
Could someone please give me some advice on the best way to deal with videos in iweb?
Thank You

You can place each video on its own page to download faster. Create a page of thumbnails and select each one in turn to make it a hyperlink to the appropriate page in the "link" inspector. You can select "open link in new window" and exclude the "video" pages from the navigation in the "page " inspector. This will prevent overloading the main navigation menu and save you having to have a "back" button on each "video" page.
You can select "autoplay" in the "QuickTime" inspector so that the movie starts when the page loads.

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