I always jump at the chance to chat with other web designers or small business owners. For starters, it’s a great way to network and meet other like-minded individuals. Also, you are guaranteed to pick up new tips or techniques by watching those around you.

I also collaborate site designs, embedded YouTube style video, and community based software with companies all around the world. Web designers enjoy the luxury of working from anywhere. I chat via VoIP for next to nothing and email to correspond. It easy to spot the more reputable companies by performing a little research beforehand. Plus, with PayPal getting paid and paying others is a breeze!

That’s it my friends. If you’re a web designer feel free to contact me so we can meet for coffee. Cheers!

The easiest way to accomplish your video needs is to simply embed them onto your existing website. This can be accomplished in many different ways (e.g. ) but essentially you will need to make sure your site can playback the video. Adobe Flash offers the ability to easily embed your existing movies into playable files once uploaded to your server. Most reputable web design companies will have that (or similar) software to help you with your conversion and code needs.

The previous solution is fine if you want to embed the occasional movie onto some static web pages. However, if you really want to gain a cult following, you’re going to want to go with option #2. This will allow you to do the most important thing you can for your site: produce regular content. Why? First, search engines love quality content! The more meaningful content you have online the higher up you will travel in the Google search rankings. Let that sink in. There’s more to it than that, but essentially, this tip is provided via Google’ Webmsater Tools Help page (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/). Second, you will become to foster a sense of community as your site gains members or subscribers. This will allow you at a later point to leverage your site for profitable means, be it eCommerce, affiliate advertising, etc.

So there’s my $0.02 on adding rich multimedia to your website. Contact me or leave a comment below if you’d like to learn more adding flash animations, video, and photos to your site. We like to help!