Back in August, we launched our new dynamic reseller marketing scripts which you can use to display marketing information about our CMS on your own website to sell it for your own business. These scripts display information that automatically stays up to date as we continue to add new features or make changes. If you don't remember this or need a refresher, please see our original post.
Today, we're releasing another enhancement to these scripts — the ability to include unbranded demonstration videos with select features. We're starting off with two feature videos (WYSIWYG editing and the form builder) and we'll continue to add more in the future.
How does it work?
We're giving you the option of whether or not you want to include the videos on your site. So, the original features script we provided will continue to function and will not contain links to the videos. If you want to include the features list with the videos, you'll need to use the following script instead:
<script src="http://publishpath.com/scripts/resellerfeatureswithvideo.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Drop that script into the HTML code on any web page and you'll get a features listing with links to play the demo videos where available.
Extra header content required
To really make the videos work like they are intended, there's some additional code you'll need to drop into the header of your HTML page. If you're putting this on a site on our CMS system, you can easily do this by going to the page settings advanced tab and dropping the code into the "additional header" field. If you're using any other system or a static site, you'll just need to place it between the <head> and </head> tags. Here's the code:
<script src="http://publishpath.com/scripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://publishpath.com/scripts/scriptaculous.js?load=effects" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://publishpath.com/styles/themebase/s/lightbox++.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="http://publishpath.com/styles/themebase/c/lightbox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
These scripts and styles provide the necessary functionality to open up the videos in a nice overlay on the features page for the best viewing experience. If you don't include them, the videos will still work, but they will open in the browser and scale to the size of the browser window, which usually results in a video that is dramatically larger than intended.
More videos to come
We'll continue to produce more videos and add them to this script. The great thing for you is that once you set this up, you can leave it alone and new videos will simply appear automatically as we release them. Also, if we ever make changes to a video in order to keep things up to date as the software progresses, the updates will happen automatically for you.
See it in action
To see the reseller features script with videos displayed as they are intended, please visit our sample page. Remember, you can affect the layout of the features, including setting them into two columns, by using CSS. See our original post for more on styling.
Posted on
Thu, November 6, 2008
by Tim Wall