Could someone point me to the right direction as to how one would embed a video file in say dream weaver? Would I need a plug in or what? Thanks in advace for anyhelp.

oh and 1 more thing (I'm near completion of my site, say I have a page that has two frames ( a left frame and a mainframe, the left frame being used as a nav bar) and I want those two frame together to form my home page, but the problem is that they are two seperate files, a file for each frame. so when I upload my site to a server (by the way if anyone has some recommendation on which server to use their welcome) I cant set them both as a homepage because they are two different files. I know this is really confusing and it probally made no since what so ever, but if you get what im talking about and you know a solution please help, thanks.

Ok, last question first, cause its easier. Do you have a page with a frameset on it? What I mean is, there must be a page that loads both frames, right? Thats the home page. Name it index.html and the server will take care of it.

To embed video you'll need to read the manual to find out what dreamweaver wants you to do. You can find example codes for embedding quicktime movies at this address

its strange because it is as if when i open up the pages to edit the frame is set as a seperate page and the homepage is set as a seperate page. I need to somehow get it to be saved as onepage just split to the left.

i don't know how dreamweaver treats this when you're viewing your files in the program, but here's how it works (for sure)

you have three HTML files.

One of them has odd looking code in it called a frameset. It mentions the nav bar and the home page by their file names. This is what you want to set to be the index.

The other two files are the nav bar (all by itself) and the home page (all by itself as well)

If you can't figure out which is the frameset file do a browser preview (I hope you know how to do this, cause I only do for GoLive) - anyway, read the URL at the top during your browser preview, and it should hopefully tell you which is the frameset page.

Titainuim good friend you once agian have pulled my *** out of the fire, many thanks go out to you.

I didn't like the way (or maybe don't know the best way) to embed media using dreamweaver. I found it's best to research the best method gived your media type. I even looked at other websites' code to see the best way. What format is the video? Although I used dreamweaver, I hand coded embeding the quicktime files on my site to work as universally in most web browsers:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="512"HEIGHT="400"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="..yourmovie.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="SCALE" VALUE="2">
<PARAM name="bgcolor" VALUE="black">
<PARAM name="type" VALUE="video/quicktime">
<param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/QuickTime/download/">
<embed src="..yourmovie.mov" width="512" height="400" autoplay="true" controller="true" SCALE="2" bgcolor="black" type="video/quicktime" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/QuickTime/download/"></embed>
</object>

That looks like good code Joren. Very similar to the one I use, which was generated by good old PageSpinner.

In the code that joren gave you, find the part where it says "controller="true" SCALE=...". If you change the "true" inside the parenthesis to "false" it will erase the menubar ( the play button, pause button, stop button, rewind button, and timebar, etc.) from the bottom of the movie.

But why remove that bar? I hate it when the bar is missing.