Hi Martin,
#2 I think I can try that, thanks..
#3 I’m unsure what that response is in regard to? I now see the dropdown of “Format” from the editing toolbar and am all set now. Let me know if it’s a missing piece for my other issue on the images.
#1) I think I understand what you are saying- adjust the master settings. When you say your “template CSS file.” Is that within Word press template or the WYSIWYG editor?
Is there a help link you can provide that would give me step by step guidance?

I’m afraid what you’ve highlighted in #1 is above my pay grade. I have learned a hard lesson with WordPress never to “guess” at “trying something”. My site was down for a couple days because of crossing the line from courage to stupidity.

If the #3 link above is the guidance for this I need to pay attention to the warning at the top:

“We don’t recommend you playing with this unless you have some bigger HTML/CSS experience.”

I’ve done HTML changes many times under a user friendly checklist guide approach. Not one based on an assumed base of knowledge and understanding.

thanks!

Dennis

Good morning, Martin, Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I’m against a tight launch deadline and am grateful for your expertise.

a) I don’t know what you mean “re-save the option”. Again the issue is the drop-down under “Format”. I’m only given “centered image” as the only option. Unable to edit further without it.

b and c) Yes, gGot the image insert working, thank you! However, left justified images with bullet text bleed over the edges. Experimented with horizontal setting. Set it as high as 40 (are these pixels for values?). Looks great on the edit screen but when I publish it somehow overrides and continues to bleed over on the right edge of the image. See http://www.membership-smart.com home page for current editing example issue.

Also the images appear with a grey line border. I tested the original image I uploaded into a Word doc and confirmed they do not have borders. The border setting is blank on your image insert and editor page.

There must be some master setting somewhere that needs to reset or change for these above issues?

d)Editor size setting – I reviewed basic and advanced settings but was not confident which one of these changes the vertical heighth of the editor space to work with.
(I saw the dropdown customization choices – how do I get these to appear in my editor?)

thanks!

Dennis

Hi Zdenka,
I was experimenting with the settings of the Flowplayer for this short term fix to get the video player sized properly and the thumbnail image overlay.

I’m trying 640 x 480.

In reviewing the Settings footnotes I tried this manual code:
[flowplayer src='http://membership-smart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Membership-Managers-on-Main-Street-3-min-Intro.mp4' 'splash=http://membership-smart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dennis-raup-membership-intro-thumbnail.jpg']

The video plays.
No thumbnail image.
Black bars on the side need to be eliminated.
I lost my aspect ratio, everything especially faces are too narrow.

What should I reset the default settings to until we get the player user interface working again?

FYI, the video was done in Camtasia Studio with recommended Youtube/HD settings at 1280 x 720. However, at this step on a web page post this would be too large of a player view.
Camtasia recommends 640 x 480 for a web placed view.

Now that I’m presenting through the Flowplayer on my site (I understand now the many advantages to this) rather than sending folks to my Youtube channel site, should I render the video file again and instead do it with the 640 x 480 setting?

I would then repeat the manual procedure code above to upload to my library. I also know now how to resize the thumbnail and re insert that in the library.

Let me know the correct manual code for including the splash and the proper size settings and that will allow me to meet the immediate deadline.

Of course when you have a solution for the player short code generator I would be grateful

Thanks!

Dennis

Hi Zdenka, Thank you for your prompt reply!

* I don’t use any special editor, just what the Graphene Theme came with. I don’t think there’s anything special editing wise that came when I installed that theme.

* I reviewed the Folio editor and looks like a great tool to use. Perhaps I should wait on adding yet another variable until we prove out it’s not something with the Graphene theme?

* To clarify, when I click on the red F icon, I do get the pop up box per the instructions and inserted the URL’s on my host server for both the mp4 video link and the thumbnail. both were set for the same exact size, fyi.

* I replaced the code that was generated with the manual code format you suggested. After saving the page and viewing it a black box of the approx. dimensions appeared. However, there was no player. Also when I hover my mouse over the black box there was no link showing in the lower left tray like there is for other library images on a page, fyi.

Much appreciate your expertise and guidance on what my next step should be.

Dennis