In this blog post we help you know how you can easily build video background for your websites. One good thing about video backgrounds is that unlike JavaScript animated backgrounds it runs very smoothly. Perhaps this is a major reason why companies like Bing, Adidas and Powerhouse use video backgrounds to communicate their message in a creative manner.
Usually video backgrounds are made using HTML5 video tag along with CSS. In this blog post we bring ways in which you can use YouTube videos as the background for your website. You can do this by using ready-to-use jQuery plugins, BigVideo.js or Tubular. These tools enable you to use any video or a series of videos as background for your web page.
Another very simple way of doing this is by using HTML and CSS tags (No JavaScript) in order to place any YouTube video on your web page background.
Let us begin with the Set Up needed to do this. First and foremost you must be clear on what you want the visitors on your website to see on the webpage. Once you have decided what is it that you want the visitors to see, then you need to keep in mind that your video should be:
- Short and Sweet (something between 15-30 seconds)
- As far as possible the audio has to be muted, or always choose sounds which are not annoying and drive the traffic away
- The text and headers which you use in Videos need to be clear, concise and readable
- The video must be set to Auto-play mode
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