What started off as a very slow day soon progressed into a very successful day on StudentFile. Yesterday and early today I was working on some small icons that I will be implementing across the website. Due to the highly flexibliness of the website with options to add Title, Text,Image,Gallery and Videos each with a button at top and bottom of tabs. And need for Delete and Edit on each Item in a tab as well as possibility a move button the page will start to get crowded so small slick icons with hover overs will be a nice method to reduce the clutter!
A small but issue that has been around from pretty much day one was resolved in the most simplest of methods today. Which was the encoding of text into html was meaning
's were not getting displayed. This is now resolved so when user adds text and hits enter, after saving the breaks will still be displayed.
's were not getting displayed. This is now resolved so when user adds text and hits enter, after saving the breaks will still be displayed.
Now onto the awesome stuff I found a jQuery/Flash player viewer called FlowPlayer free under the GPL which means I am free to use it for my website. It only has a small logo of theres on the bottom right at start of player loading which doesn't bother me at all. It is very simply to use, couple scripts and then place a A tag on the page which points to a flv file. The jQuery will grab it replace the a tag with the flash player and use that flv video to play. It works a charm.
Of course this doesn't help unless users can upload videos, and ideally as most users won't know how to, need to provide a method for users to upload files such as AVI,mpg,quicktime etc not just a FLV. Which I have also managed to do today. That comes in the format of a SoThink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash. It is a command line program which lets me pass it parameters about type of video to save, where to save it, size, codecs etc and a lot more. After much much much messing around I managed to get it working and now users can upload their Overview CV video as well as videos on their tabs.>
The limitation with the software's free version is that it will only convert 3minutes at the moment. Which I feel is a accept amount at moment and I could purchase it at a later date. Something beautiful about this program is that it will use a heap of codecs if you have them installed. So while it mainly does mpg, avi, h264 at first once I installed Windows media player home cinema and the codecs that are free with it, Quicktime, WMV, realplayer automatically started working.
So very successful day - Peace out!
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