My final project depended a great deal on externally hosted images and video. I did a little research before jumping into the project, but I kind of wish I'd done a little more.
Let's start with video hosting. Obviously, given the 5mb upload limit, putting up a 102mb .avi file wouldn't work well. The first option is probably the best known: Youtube, king of vid hosting. This site is essentially ubiquitious on the 'net, and it's embedded player works well. The reason I didn't use this site is simple: when the video finishes, youtube shows all sorts of annoying links to other people's videos. Not for me.
Another up and coming option is Vimeo. This site is kind of the older brother of YouTube. Cleaner, more professional, with generally higher quality content. The Vimeo player stutters a little bit sometimes, and the quality of my video isn't HD, so I decided to go with a much more small scale option, Lost Zombies.
Essentially, Lost Zombies is one of the myriad of websites catering to a fiercely niche crowd. The site has it's own generic web player with embeddable options. The player was the easiest choice for me, and I was at ease with the possibility of a user of my site clicking back to Lost Zombies, since it's content is by and large the same as my final project's.
Ok, let's talk about photo hosting really quick. I've gotta be honest, it was basically only one option from the moment I decided to host externally: Flickr.com. Flickr is probably the most common file hosting site on the 'net, and it's myriad of upload options were what drew me to it. To be honest, I broke the 'community guidelines' by not including trackback links to every photo, but I hope that the Flickr people won't be angry with me (I love you, Flickr! Please don't hurt me!)
This group allows anyone to upload a certain number of photos to their servers, view and organize them. For a fee you can get unlimited uploads and other little goodies. I've got the unlimited version, and use Flickr to back up all my photos. I'd really rather not lose all my memories if my hard drive crashes.
--Josh Henning
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wow, you've done a lot of research for this project. it looks like you went all out... i can't wait to see what your site looks like!
sounds like it will put us all to shame...
--Winston Clark--
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