HTML generator

[massdrewski]

The company I work for has begun a new product in the last month. We will have people go to local car dealership, Take individual videos of each used car, encode and embed the code for use later on (just like youtube). this is what is bugging me. I want to allow the webmasters at the dealership to simply receive a List of Videos and embed it them selves. If I can have a software or even a web based notepad (similar to myspace HTML generators), where they simply type in the "file" name and it will create the standard code for them to insert into their website. Here is an example of the code that will be posted.


<script language="JavaScript">
var L_LAUNCHSAP_TEXT = "Launch Windows Media Player";
var g_bNetscape = ( -1 != navigator.appName.indexOf( "Netscape" ) );
</script>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if ( navigator.appName == "Netscape" )
{ //-- This next line ensures that any plugins just installed are updated in the Browser
//-- without quitting the browser.
navigator.plugins.refresh();
// We don't need the APPLET within IE
// ***Please note that if you do not need to script events, you can safely remove the next two lines
document.write("\x3C" + "applet MAYSCRIPT Code=NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class")
document.writeln(" width=5 height=5 name=appObs\x3E \x3C/applet\x3E")
} //-->
</script>

<br><br>
<script language="Javascript">
if( g_bNetscape )
{
document.writeln( "<APPLET mayscript code=WMPNS.WMP name=WMP1 width=450 height=340 MAYSCRIPT >" );
}
</script>
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" ID="WMP">
<PARAM NAME="Name" VALUE="WMP1">
<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE=" http://208.106.162.24/town_chatham">
</OBJECT>
</APPLET>
<br><br>
<input type="button" id="cmdStandAlone" value="Launch Windows Media Player" onClick="location.href=' http://208.106.162.24/town_chatham'">

<br><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Direct Link: <strong> http://208.106.162.24/town_chatham</strong><br></span>
<br>
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Just like the myspace HTML generator, I would set it up with a Form fill out. They simply type in the Tag for the file, and the code would be generated with the tag inserted. I have highlighted the areas of the java scripts above where it would need a different address (because there will be multiple video files)


Any ideas?

[snowman7000]

<Disclaimer type="MyThoughts"> I have some expectation that this is being done because the car dealership most likely has a predominantly sale staff, and a small staff dedicated to technical/media issues if any. Also if it has progressed to a point that they have hired people to video the cars the time for planing how the site will work has passed, and it should be in some phase of implementation and/or testing.</Disclaimer >

It sounds like what you have talked about could be done by a simple server side script: where the video file name could be saved in a database or past as a parameter in the url. Their are several options ASP, JSP and PHP are common but their are others. (Even if your company does it all the programming in house I would expect that it would use some kind of scripting, it is just much easier to use a few templates that dynamically create content and take little effort to change verses the large effort to maintain changes consistently to many pure html files. Given the size i would expect it will be managed by either a content management system or a back end website so only a little bit of information is required to generate the page, then it can be quickly removed when the car sells)

Usually in this kind of case it is more difficult for you to have an effect on the process because policy/planning has already been decided how this will be done rather that any technical issue. Hopefully whoever has been planing this project has experience, already planed a good way to proceed and most likely will be influenced by how your company is expecting to be compensated for this service. Do you know that all the groups that you will be going in with have trained staffing and the equipment to make & edit & post the videos (and would be willing continue for the forceable future). Their may be good reasons for having an outside crew do this, if multiple car lots are involved in one project it would give a more uniform feel. Also allowing many users access to either upload the files to your servers (assuming your company is hosting the content), or at minimum allowing many users to have at least some level of access the databases will require more effort to handle the data securely and provide support for when their webmasters are having issues with this service.