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There are many reasons to add videos to your website. Videos can help showcase your brand and personality, encourage users to spend more time on your site, and give your pages a fresh, modern look. liveBooks’ video gallery functionality that gives you the ability to add multiple videos on one page in a visually pleasing way. Engage your website visitors by adding various video resources onto one page, and let your video content take center stage.

Easily Add Videos to Your Website

Whether you house your videos in YouTube or Vimeo, this new feature lets you display your videos by simply copying and pasting your video URLs into the video gallery content block.

Your video titles and descriptions are automatically imported, so your website viewers can quickly see what your videos are about.

Customize Your Video Gallery

After you’ve added your videos, our user-friendly design tool lets you customize the look of your video gallery. Choose between 7 video gallery layouts, adjust your video height, add animation effects and more. For step by step instructions on how to use this exciting new feature visit our support library.

Drop Us a Line

Have an idea for a great new feature? We invite you to reach out and let us know what we’re missing! We love hearing feedback from our customers and want to continue building our platform with the tools and features you need to create beautifully effective websites.

The Internet is full of GIFs, and for good reason – they are the perfect image format to portray a visual loop compressed in a very small size. They go well with the widespread mobile usage – their loading time is short and they use very little mobile data. They are easy to share and embed, whether in blog posts, chatting and, yes, as part of your portfolio website, too.

GIFs are not usually known for their high quality, but they can render 256 colors in 8-bit color images. That’s why, the sharper looking GIFs you might commonly find online portray mostly geometrical figures, logos or 3D renders. This is the general tone set by the majority of GIF posters, but that’s not all GIFs can be.

The greatest thing about your GIFs is that they can create a meaningful context or portray emotions. They create an unseen bond with the viewer and a sense of fulfilled expectation. They are super easy to add to your liveBooks website. These reasons alone should convince you to at least give GIFs a chance to be part of your portfolio.

Create GIFs from photos

Adobe Photoshop is the best tool to use when the source of your GIFs is your image gallery. Head over to the Adobe help page for a short and great tutorial on how to create animated GIFs from your images. The plus side of using your dedicated software when creating GIFs from images is quality control in a private medium.

Use snippets from your videos

Sharing videos is great, but creating GIF teasers from your videos to add them to your home page grid gallery is ten times as awesome. You can create GIFs from videos in Photoshop, and the link in our previous paragraph has a section dedicated to that.

You can also use online GIF creators such as Giphy – it creates GIFs from your YouTube or Vimeo videos, but you can also upload your video source from your computer. While the resulting GIFs come in good quality and don’t have a watermark, each time you create a GIF it is automatically uploaded to the Giphy library.

GIFs on your liveBooks site

You can add GIFs to your site just like you do with any other image – add them to your image collection or straight to the image block. They act like any other image, so you can adjust their widths, add overlays or hover effects, or even set them as backgrounds.

Our suggestion is to use them in grid type galleries, where their size is usually smaller. This way they will create the awesome dynamic effect without looking too grainy.

The pronunciation debate

You can say it like in gift, or like the peanut butter Jif – the debate is still on. But one thing’s for sure, regardless of how you want to pronounce it, you should give GIFs a try on your website.

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The short answer: yes. According to Forrester Research’s Dr. James McQuivey, “a minute of video is worth 1.8 million words.” Here are 3 reasons why you should add video content to your website.

1. Engages your audience. Video consumption is only growing in 2018, and by sharing videos to your website, you are capturing consumers’ attention and, in turn, driving higher engagement on your site.
2. Improves Google Rankings. You understand how to implement SEO best practices, but did you know that the amount of time consumers spend on your site also plays into Google Rankings? When you are capturing attention through an engaging video, you’re enticing users to stay on your website longer. Therefore, improving your Google Rankings.
3. Gives Your Brand Personality. Of course you can showcase your personality through your copy and images. Add another layer with video. When you feature a video of yourself you are humanizing your brand and creating a deeper connection with your visitors. This gives them a reason to come back to your website.

Wondering where to begin with uploading videos to your website? With liveBooks’ Video Galleries you have the option to add multiple videos on one page, in a pleasing manner. Adding a Video Gallery block to your page is simple, just follow these easy steps.

Our thanks to APA for the following article, penned by our very own Matt Bailey.

Do you want to add more dimension – and distinction – to your brand? Start using video on your website.

Video can help you market yourself as a professional who brings more to the table than a handful of carefully selected images. It can help you develop an effective brand, communicate your personal vision and illustrate what it’s like to work with you. And, with a slew of HDSLR cameras on the market and numerous other gadgets to help you capture video, it’s never been easier.

Where should you start?

The uses of online video can range from highlighting your videography work to showcasing a slideshow of stills. You can also use videos in lieu of a traditional “bio” page, to present testimonials or as a behind-the-scenes look at how your studio operates.

To view some different ways that photographers are using video online, check out these photographers’ websites:

Emilie Sommer

David Emmite

Justin Francis

Mark Wallace and

Jules Bianchi.

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