video for websites

When the web started most people had dial up. Dial up services that only provided 56k access, meant that all people tended to have on their websites was words. And just words, not even images.

Move forward 10 years to today where broadband is really the only service sold to new internet customers and more and more transfering over to broadband (current speeds around 10mb), and video extracts are becoming more common place.

You can put your own video up on www.google.com/video/ and on www.youtube.com where anyone and everyone can add their video for anyone else worldwide to watch. It’s easy now.

So what about video for your website?

It now makes sense. People are seeing video more and more online now and it’s something they are beginning to expect. And it’s relatively easy to generate video.

Certainly screen capture video is really easy. This is where you can show tutorials online. Then you customers replay the video which shows you going through each section on your site on anything on your computer (because it’s recording anything you are doing — from internet work to MS products or any other software).

The best screen capture software is camtasia. It’s quite expensive but there are others that say they do the same thing - but they certainly don’t.