Adding Movies to Web Pages

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It is just as easy to put links to movies on your web pages as it was to add links to sounds and external image files. For example, get the files named simpsons-2001.mpg and rocket.mpg from www.acm.uiuc.edu:

1. For each of these files, hold the mouse down over the link until a popup menu appears.

2. Select "Save this link as . . .", in the resulting dialog box.

3. Select "Source", and the default name (simpsons-2001.mpg and rocket.mpg).

4. Select your homepage directory for the destination, and then click "Save". (These files are 308 kB and 105 kB long, respectively, so this may take several minutes if your link is slow.)

Then we can link to the movies by adding the following to your homepage file:

      <hr>
      <h2> Some Movie Files </h2>
      <ul>
      <li> 
      <a href="simpsons-2001.mpg">Homer 2001</a>
      <li> 
      <a href="rocket.mpg">Rocket</a>
      </ul>
      <hr>

Some Movie Files

• Homer 2001
• Rocket

In this HTML, <ul> starts an un-numbered list, </ul> ends the un-numbered list, and <li> precedes each separate member of the list. In this example we have put only two elements in the list, but we could add any number by repeating the above.

Now use the preceding example as a guideline to add some more movie links to your homepage. Here are some movie resources to help you out:

Yahoo Listing of Movie Archives

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Multimedia/Video/Archives/

Apple's QuickTime Movie Archive

http://quicktime.apple.com/

MPEG Movie Archive

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/multimedia/animation/mpeg/berkeley-mirror/

Another Listing of Movie Sources

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/internet_resources/images_movies.html

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