First, a word about “HD” Video on the web…

The question of “HD” video seems to be coming up more often lately, and we’re sure that in part it’s because sites like Vimeo and YouTube are now including that as a display option. Since most of you are probably already aware, though, that HD over the web isn’t the same thing as HD television, we’ll leave the bandwidth & pixel density explanations for someone else. In short, “HD” on the web basically just means it’s either physically bigger, higher quality, or both.

Since with Gryphon you’re handling the transcoding yourselves before uploading the videos, you can create them at any quality and using the resolution settings you prefer. We can just alter the layout of your templates to enlarge the default player size.

Please let us know if you have questions, or if you’d like us to make adjustments to your multimedia template or default player size.

Careful with Those Filenames!

- file extensions: every file passed over FTP or a browser should have a file extension (like ‘.jpg’ or ‘.swf’), both to ensure safe transit – and a smooth import after the upload. Generally speaking, those extensions should always be lower-case, too.

- bad characters: In our perfect world, every filename contains only alphanumeric characters and the underscore ‘_’ and period ‘.’ – and they never, ever have slashes of any kind.

- on a related note, using Soundslides in a native way with Gryphon requires a specific (but easy) setup. Ask for help if you’re having trouble.

Using Textile markup in Gryphon

Textile is a handy and flexible way to style up text inside Gryphon articles. Sure, you can just use the “bold” button, but if your needs go deeper, there are lots of references for using Textile available on the web. There’s more information, and a bunch of links, on Wikipedia.org, including one to the Textile homepage, which has a handy reference.