Now we’re going to show you how to be a pro in web design. There is nothing complex, so keep your eyes open to know how to create a website! You will even be able to produce web designs for other people and earn money from that!

1. Get a Web Host and a Domain Name

In fact, hosting is considered to be a ‘home’ where all of your website pages and files are placed on the web. So if you want your site to be visible you definitely need hosting – everything on the web is hosted somewhere.

Don’t buy web hosting just because it is cheap. Make sure that the provider is trustworthy and provides professional 24/7 support services. This feature is extremely important for both experienced web developers and those who’re new to this field.

When you find a suitable hosting provider take a good look at its pricing plans once again. Most likely there is an interesting scale: the longer period of services that you order the cheaper your annual price would be. So sign up for at least two years or more if you can afford it and if you’re sure you’ll keep your website that long.

The good news is that a lot of hosting providers offer a free domain name if you buy hosting from them. However, the range of available domains is usually limited, so you as well buy a domain name separately.

So if you’re ready to find the best hosting service you can use one of the most popular hosting providers. They will suit every budget and all your business needs. Here they are.

BlueHost

GoDaddy

HostGator

Domain name or a website URL or a website address looks like domainname.com (.co, .uk, .us, .info, .net, .org, .edu, .mobi etc). The domain registration procedure is quite simple and will take just a few minutes. But it’s harder to choose the domain because it’s something that represents your company on the web and everybody wants to find the best one.

Domain names cost from $5 up to $80+ per year. The price depends on the domain extension you choose or TLD. There are a lot of domain registrars such as GoDaddy, Namecheap, 1&1, Name, etc. Every registrar offers different packs of extra services – take these into consideration when looking for the cheapest domain.

It’s a good idea to use your brand name in the website URL. Some people guess that it’s better to choose keyword-rich domains instead of branded ones. However, it’s not all that good. Search engines don’t like users playing SEO tricks on them and don’t blindly believe website addresses. So you should better make your domain user-friendly instead of search engines friendly.

Just a small tip for website owners: register some most popular domain extensions even if you don’t plan to use them. It will save you from unfair competitors who can secretly use your brand and authority for their own (I mean some can register your domain name with a different extension and use it on your behalf, or try to sell it to you at a price much higher than the initial price).

Ok, now keep all these things in mind and choose the best domain name registrar. All of them offer low prices and high-quality customer services. Here you’ll find 3 domain name registrars that are worth working with.

Namecheap

Name

eNom

2. Create a Site with an Admin Panel or a Website Builder

Till this moment everything was quite simple and understandable: you pay for domain/hosting and get it all within a minute. The main problem in the website creation process is making a choice of the right website builder or admin panel to work with. Because obviously gone are the times when the websites were created by programmers who wrote countless lines of codes, these days people use admin panels to build websites using tools similar to Microsoft Word tools.

In fact, there are numerous website builders that will get your website up and running. They can be free or paid (one-time or regular payments). The one we have used and recommend now is a paid CMS that, however, will save you a lot of money.

I’d like to tell you about MotoCMS. You can just log in to your website admin panel and edit the content (add your logo, company name, contacts, texts, etc.) without having any technical skills and writing source code in HTML or PHP. This website builder is also good because it doesn’t need any additional software (Artisteer, Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Expression Web, etc.) that can be quite complex for newcomers (and rather costly) – you perform all of the changes right within your browser window and see the results immediately.

You can also share the admin panel URL with the admin’s login and password so that other people from your team could assist you in creating the website.

Whatever website builder you choose there are two ways to create a website: from scratch or by using a pre-made website template. The second way is considered to be more preferable because it is faster and simpler (just add your own content to the template and you’re done). If talking about MotoCMS they have a lot of website templates for a lot of business categories. Due to the built-in admin panel, they are rather easy to use even for ordinary people like you and me.

There are some useful features of MotoCMS templates:

• Drag-and-drop interface;
• WYSIWYG Editor (What You See Is What You Get);
• Mobile Editor;
• Image Editor;
• Fonts Manager;
• Interactive image galleries;
• Google Maps widget;
• An ability to add YouTube and Vimeo Videos;
• 24/7 support services.
• Free lifetime updates of the CMS.

For today MotoCMS has over 500 pre-made designs and this number increases every day. There are designs for small businesses, for photographers and art studios, designers and politicians, agriculture and financial companies, education and charity organizations, cafes and restaurants, etc.

As an alternative, take a look at IONOS website builder.

3. Take the Total Control of Your Website

Some people think that when a website is published on the web the work is completely done and they can start getting profit from it. Not a chance! It’s just a starting point for further website maintenance that includes content updating, search engine optimization (SEO), tracking the website traffic and audience activity (Google Analytics tool).

MotoCMS templates are good for SEO purposes because they are easily crawled by search engines so you can get higher positions in search results. You can and definitely should add pages titles, URLs, keywords, descriptions and other stuff like that. You can also close some pages from search engines indexing. When it comes to SEO the main thing is to set realistic goals and your website will be encouraged by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

If you’ve just built a website it may have the sense to submit its URL to search engines to get them to know about the newcomer:

• Submit your site to Google
• Submit your site to Bing

This option is needed if your site has no external links (when other websites link back to you). Otherwise, search engines already know about your business.

Conclusion

As you probably understand this is not an exhaustive guide on how to create a website. On the web, you can also find a lot of interesting and useful tips to take into account. But in this post we tried to show you the basics that will allow you to get the site up and running!

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As long as there are hundreds of thousands of Halloween vector free Facebook timeline covers on the web we tried to choose the best ones and to arrange them in the round-up.  Here you’ll find pictures of pumpkins, bats, black cats, witches, skeletons, zombies, night landscapes and God knows what else. We bet these 100 free Halloween Facebook covers will warm your hearts and you’ll find the best image for your account cover.

3 Premium Halloween Facebook Covers

Halloween Facebook Timeline Cover

Vintage Halloween Party Flyer + FB

Happy Halloween Facebook Cover

Ready-Made Facebook Templates

100 Free Halloween Facebook Covers

Halloween Night Profile Facebook Cover

Candy Corn Profile Facebook Cover

The Night The Dead Wake Facebook Cover

Halloween Quote Facebook Cover

Halloween Colors Bow Facebook Cover

Haunted House Facebook Cover

Halloween Is My Favourite Holiday

Demon Facebook Profile Cover

Green and Orange Facebook Cover

2Halloween Profile Facebook Cover

Happy Halloween Facebook Cover

Zombies Walking Facebook Profile Cover

Trick or Treat Facebook Profile Cover

Happy Halloween Facebook Profile Cover

Booooo Facebook Profile Cover

Happy Halloween Scelleton Facebook Cover

Happy Halloweeb Facebook Profile Cover

Happy Halloween Facebook Profile Cover

Halloween Bats Facebook Cover

Happy Halloween Facebook Timeline Cover

Pumpkin Facebook Profile Cover

This is Halloween Facebook Cover

Jack o Lantern Facebook Profile Cover

Trick or Treat Sweets for the Street Facebook Cover

Halloween Cemetery Facebook Cover

Cool Giger Skull Facebook Cover

Dark Scary Facebook Cover for Timeline

Creepy Moonlight through Treas Facebook Cover

Evil Witch Snow White Apple Facebook Cover

Halloween 2021 is coming! Don’t pretend that you’re not interested in having fun!! Make your friends green with envy of your Facebook cover and don’t forget to check out this guide for Facebook cover photo size requirements. Recommended reading: History and interesting facts about a Facebook logo.

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But first let’s name the most prominent features of iOS 7 design (aside from the fact that it’s flat – that’s too obvious).

• Minimalism. In fact, in recent years minimalism is constantly popular among web designers and end users. You may see a lot of white space on web pages. It is considered to be good because it helps site visitors focus on content.
• Super-elliptical shape. Updated icons of the new iOS are more curved now. The same applies to web design elements such as menu bars, banners, buttons and decorations.
• Table views and lists. Content arranged in tables is not boarded anymore. Table cells are separated with blanks. Though the entire look is absolutely clean.
• Outlined icons. Icons without a fill color are rather popular in flat design. They complete the minimalistic look of the entire project.
• Light typography. Usually regular or bold typefaces are too excessive for clean and simple designs. Thus there are about 260 fonts to use within your iOS 7-style projects.
• Headers. For iOS 7 web designs it is essential to merge headers into the background color. Thus a header and a menu bar create an eye-catchy visual element that adds more screen space for content below.

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So if you want to bring more clarity to your website this new trendy style is for you. To get a good flat design you just need to take away all elements that can annoy people (lines, textures, ornaments, gradients, etc.). Or you can choose a ready-made website template designed in iOS 7 style from below.

Vendy Pro Innovative Shopify Theme (OS 2.0)

 reminiscent of iOS 7’s clean and sleek interface

Dance Studio Website Template

iOS 7 feature: typography (Raleway Ultra Light)

Dentistry Website Template

iOS 7 feature: saturated color scheme.

Photo Portfolio Template

iOS 7 feature: flat design.

Neutral Business Template

iOS 7 feature: clean style.

Business Website Template with Red Background

iOS 7 feature: listed menu.

Business Template Designed with White and Blue Colors

iOS 7 feature: clean minimalist design.

Creative Business Template

iOS 7 feature: menu toolbar merged into saturated background.

Mobile Software Website Template

iOS 7 feature: saturated hues and outlined icons.

Orange Website Template

iOS 7 feature: table view menu and outlined icons.

Clean Business Web Template

iOS 7 feature: light color palette.

Clean Website Template

iOS 7 feature: light typography and menu tabs with rounded corners.

Web Design Company Template

iOS 7 feature: minimalist layout.

Website Template for IT Business

iOS 7 feature: saturated color scheme.

Construction Company Template

iOS 7 feature: light typography and icons without a fill color.

Clean Architect Website Template

iOS 7 feature: minimalist design with outlined icons.

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Do you know that many people start every day by checking their social media accounts? My husband is one of them. So for him and for other geeky ones I’ve collected 50 Christmas Facebook covers. They are really nice! While looking for well done timeline covers I couldn’t resist a temptation to choose the one for my own profile (#26 with a Christmas kitty). I guess you are also able to find an image that will make your Facebook timeline cover be worthy of this Christmas.

I wish you a very happy Christmas… and a happy New Year! Enjoy the holiday and come back to DesignWebKit!

P.S.: 100 Free Halloween Facebook Covers

Cute Bears Facebook Christmas Cover

New Year/Christmas Facebook Timeline

Christmas Facebook Timeline Covers

Merry Christmas Facebook Timeline Cover

Facebook Cover For Christmas

Merry Christmas Timeline Cover

Merry Christmas Profile Facebook Cover

Keep Calm… Profile Facebook Cover

Please Snow Profile Facebook Cover

Happy Holidays Facebook Cover

Blue Ornaments Facebook Cover

Under the Mistletoe Profile Facebook Cover

Merry Christmas Timeline Cover

Kitty Santa Facebook Cover for Timeline

Merry Christmas Facebook Cover

Merry Christmas Facebook Cover

Santa Cookies Facebook Cover

Cute Home in the Snow Facebook Cover

Merry Christmas Facebook Cover

Christmas Love Birds Facebook Cover

Merry Christmas Timeline Cover

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Sure a lot of words are said about flat design and you’re probably well-informed about it. As a designer you may also have many fonts of different styles. Thus we won’t teach you how to design right, but we want you to check out some of our previous flat design and fonts related posts.

• 100 Fresh Free Fonts;
• Typography Mistakes to Avoid;
• How Many Fonts Does a Designer Really Need?;

Here you’ll find 30 free thin and light fonts and 5 premium fonts with a reasonable price that will help you make your minimalist projects even more visually attractive. Enjoy their usage and we are absolutely sure that your new flat design will look awesome.

Yellow Umbrella Thin

Coyote | A Playful Font

Chumpagne & Limousines

Nectar Typeface

Jalane Light Font

Congenial Thin

Colaborate Thin Font

Dense Thin Font

Corbert Regular Font

Flex Display Free Font

Exo Thin

Lane Narrow Regular Font

District Thin Font

Aliquam Font (Ultra Light Ultralight Italic Versions)

Bellerose Font

Caviar Dreams Regular Font

Existence Light Font

Castorgate Free Fonts

Gnuolane Font

Quicksand Light Oblique

Canter Light Font

Raleway Thin Font

Flatform Light

Print Clearly Regular

Circula Thin and Light Font

Engel Light

Spirequal Light

Vegur Fonts (Light Version)

Typo Slab Serif

Neon Lights Font

Aspergit Fonts (Light and Light Italic Versions)

Code Light Free Font

Sertig Free Font

Hallo Sans Light Font

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If your budget is not limited you can order a custom design in some popular web design studio. You can also choose alternatives like hiring a good website design company – such as KIWI WEBSITE DESIGN  or buying a website template. There is also another way to get an original website that nobody will be able to duplicate – create website layout in Photoshop. You can design web pages for the best WordPress hosting, Joomla or whatever engine you prefer. If you are versed in web development some of these Photoshop tutorials can help you a lot. In our today’s collection you’ll find basic guides for beginners as well as advanced tutorials for experienced users.

If you want more Photoshop sources for better web development take a look at other collections from out blog:

• 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Developers;
• 31 Free UI Kits;
• 100 Free Fonts;
• 30 Free Thin and Light Fonts.

Windows 8 Inspired Portfolio Layout

Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop

Design a Portfolio Site in Photoshop

Design a Stylish Timeline Portfolio Page Using Photoshop

Design a Code Ready Micro Blog Layout

Design a Clean Corporate Website Layout

Create a FabricTextured Web Layout Using Photoshop

Corporate and Portfolio Style WordPress Layout

Create a Grungy Translucent Web Portfolio Design

Design a Clean e-Commerce Website Interface in Photoshop

How to Create a Professional Web Layout in Photoshop

Design a Clean & Colorful Ecommerce Layout in Photoshop

Design a Modern and Stunning Web Layout

Design a Sleek, Dark Mobile App Website

How to Create an Advanced Hosting Layout

How to Create Business Template in Photoshop

Learn to Create a Gaming Layuot in Photoshop

Design a Professional Blog Layout in Photoshop

Design Grunge WordPress Theme

Design a Textured Outdoors Website in Photoshop

Create an Elegant Patterned Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Minimalist Blog Layout in Photoshop

Create a Grungy Web Design with Paper Texture

Design a Clean Sports Web Layout in Magazine-Style in Photoshop

Create a Rockin’Website Layout in Photoshop

Design a Sleek, Professional Travel Blog

Design an Artistic Watercolor Blog Layout

Cool Photography Layout

Design a Professional Portfolio Web Layout

Design a Warm, Cheerful Website Interface in Adobe Photoshop

How to Create a Clean Website Layout in Photoshop

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That’s why I’ve found 38 jQuery Carousel sliders for you. The majority of them is free and you’ll be particularly amazed by their quality. Here you’ll find 3D carousel sliders, fullscreen background slideshows, responsive jQuery sliders, jQuery cycle plugins, jQuery banner rotators, carousel viewers, thumbnails navigation galleries, etc. I guess the collection will suit you.

Carousel sliders show several content items at once that increases websites effectiveness and users engagement greatly. People always notice nice images especially moving ones. So now you can choose a jQuery carousel slider at your liking and show us how it looks in your design.

jQuery Carousel Sliders – Enjoy!

• Your Website Typography: 15 Text Effect jQuery Plugins
• 25 Free and Premium jQuery Image Slider Plugins
• 15+ Free and Premium jQuery Scrolling Effect Plugins

KingSlider- 23 Slider jQuery

Skitter

Cloud Carousel – a 3D Carousel in JavaScrips

Supersized – Fullscreen Background Slideshow

Circular Content Carousel with jQuery

Elastislide – a Responsive jQuery Carousel Plugin

WOW Slider

bxSlider – The Responsive jQuery Content Slider

Barousel

jQuery Infinite Carousel Plugin

Fullscreen Slit Slider with jQuery and CSS3

Slidesjs

jQuery Carousel

Coin Slider

jQuery Feature Carousel

Anything Slider jQuery Plugin

jCoverflip

Moving Boxes

3D Carousel jQuery

Full Width Image Slider

A jQuery and wordpress Image Gallery

Thumbnails Navigation Gallery with jQuerry

jQuery MS Carousel

Rotating Image Slider with jQuery

Website Templates with jQuery Elements

Now we’d like you to present some website templates with jQuery sliders. All of them are worthy of your attention. Come on and start using some of them.

Portrait Photography Website Template with a Background Gallery

Art Photo Studio Web Template with a Photo Slider

Internet Solutions Website Template with Bright Content Slider

Hiking Club Website Template with a jQuery Slider and a Photo Gallery

Dark Industrial Website Template with a Carousel Slider

Pasta Website Template in Orange Colors

Black and White Business Website Template with a jQuery Slider

Photo Portfolio Template with jQuery Gallery

We’d love your feedback on these sliders, so please take a moment to comment below! Thanks!

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People are visual, so when they see a poorly designed website, they just run away. They won’t look for your Buy Now or Sign Up buttons because somebody with a more user-friendly website is waiting for them somewhere on the web. You have a lot of competitors, so don’t reduce your chances of generating conversions. For instance, when you create an online class or a webinar, think well of the structure and design or address professionals in the sphere who will make it visually correct and attractive, like Webinar Care.

Most of the bad web design examples from this post were created long ago. Nobody cares about their redesign, and they just exist. Meanwhile, there are relatively new websites designed by some “professionals” who appear to have eyes at the back of their heads. Of course, some designs below are hands-down ugly, some are better – still, they could have been made with a more insightful colors approach. It’s very strange to see these sites because nowadays, most people have unlimited access to the web to learn everything (and the color theory too).

So after analyzing some fatal color combinations of the worst web designs, we concluded that we have to warn you against using these combinations, especially if you are involved in the web design industry as eCommerce web designer.

Shades of Green, White, and Yellow on a Green Background

Green is a fantastic color that indicates balance and harmony. But when you place it as a page background, you risk creating a creepy design. That might sound harsh, but a few people can create a nice-looking website with green as a background, and nobody can do it well if this background is supplemented with green, yellow, or white text without padding.

Green and yellow are placed too close to each other on the color spectrum, which causes yellow to melt into the background. It makes the entire design look inaccurate. Moreover, yellow and white texts are almost unreadable when they are placed on a green background.

l.a. Eyeworks

Light Objects on a Light Background

To get more site visitors involved, you need to make buttons and calls to action more visible and texts more readable. People shouldn’t think about what’s been written there on your pages – they expect clarity. That’s where contrast is needed. According to experts from Thesishelpers.com, the most important elements should stand out so that people understand what you want from them and what they can get from you in return. If your website suffers from this issue, considering a website rebranding that focuses on improving contrast and text readability could be a beneficial approach.

Look at the screenshots of websites that combine colors that are too light. The overall look of these pages is dull: all elements blend, and texts are almost impossible to read.

Bierzto.pl

We understand that it can be hard to find true colors combination, especially when you are a beginner. So if there is a need, you can find a suitable palette using one of the following color checking tools. All of them are free.

• Color Contrast Checker
• Color Contrast Check
• Luminosity Contrast Ratio
• Vischeck
• Check My Colours
• Accessibility Color Wheel

Too Bright Color Combinations

When choosing colors that are too bright, your website will suck! It can still look bad whether you use 2, 3, or 10 colors. For sure vivid tones grab people’s attention. They work well when creating buttons, menus, or other essential layout elements, but when the entire website is designed with one or several neon tones – that’s just a regular tastelessness. Moreover, when people see a lot of colorful boxes and texts, they don’t know which one to click, so all your calls to action are useless.

Yale

Valley Isle Aquatics

Accept Jesus

Bright Textured Website Backgrounds with Colored Texts

The background is something that makes your web pages more attractive and design elements more noticeable. It shouldn’t distract visitors’ attention from the on-page information. However, some designers do everything the wrong way. They choose the most vivid and neon color mixes and supplement them with colored texts. Ultimately, the website looks like an absolute nightmare, with unreadable texts and spooky images that irritate people.

If you want a textured background, try not placing text and images directly on it. Use some shapes with high opacity to block everything underneath. However, avoiding such extremes as highly textured backgrounds would be better.

Constellation Seven

Cloud 9 Walker

Colorado Ranger

Water Equipment Technology

Vibrant Tones on a Black Background

Black is an intense color that inverts other tones and makes them look too bright, even if they are not so vivid. People are used to mixing black with any color without a doubt because it always goes well. However, computer screens and mobile phone displays have different color rendering, and it can happen that your design will look unexpectedly bad.

You should be careful using bright tones (red, blue, green, purple, pink) on a pitch-black background. It creates an aggressive look whether you add text or images. Neon colors shine too strongly and complicate texts’ readability.

Pengun

Graham Masterton

The Rent Is Too Damn High

Stereo and Alarm

Too Many Colors in One Design

You probably know that too much of anything is wrong. It’s especially important in color theory. Too many colors are not just bad looking – they annoy and irritate potential customers. It even happens that rainbow-colored web pages are decorated with blinking and sparkling elements. Some designers think it might be impressive, and it is so! However, people are too impressed and want to close the weird window/tab right after they enter it.

Web designers from all over the world conclude that it’s better to make designs with only 3 colors. For any kind of business-related design, such as customized checks, a decent color combination is an absolute necessity these days. Especially in the case of checks, it’s mandatory to use the best printer for checks so that the color combination turns out to be pleasant when printed. It’s hard to argue with this statement after viewing the bad web design examples below.

Ingenfeld

Bavarian Brathaus

Blue Background with Any Colors

Bright blue is the wrong background color. It doesn’t matter which colors you choose for texts and other page elements – blue will still be too strong for them. It makes all texts look badly readable, and eyes quickly get tired of it.

There is also a psychological reason not to use too much bright blue: BSOD screens have blue backgrounds. Nobody likes viewing them unexpectedly because it usually means that your computer has crashed and needs your help. Blue websites can be associated with Operation System crashes, so people will try to avoid them.

Space is the Place

Hosanna

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Frankly speaking, I’m a quite lazy girl that’s why I prefer to download free Photoshop actions on the web and to install them with a few mouse clicks.

How to Install Photoshop Actions

Firstly download the Photoshop action you like to anywhere on your computer. And then choose the preferable way to install it.

• Go to ‘Disk C:’ – ‘Program files’ – ‘Adobe Photoshop CS x’ – ‘Presets’ – ‘Actions’. There you’ll see several files with .atn extension. Drag and drop your new action into that folder and restart Photoshop.
• There is also an alternative way to install Photoshop actions that is also rather simple. From the right Photoshop toolbar open Actions menu and from the drop-down list choose ‘Load Actions’. A small popup will allow you to upload any actions from your computer.

Now you know how to install Photoshop actions. You can download each of the following ones. By using these 30 Photoshop actions for retro effect you can make your pictures look amazingly old. I know that you appreciate giving photos and images a vintage grungy look and now you can do it on the fly.

By the way, here on Design Web Kit you can find more interesting materials about and for Photoshop:

• 100 Fresh & Free Packs of Photoshop Brushes
• Collage Photoshop Tutorials Bundle: 70 Awesome Manuals
• 10 Photoshop Tutorial Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark
• 15 Extremely Cool Photoshop CS5 Tutorials
• Free Photoshop Actions: Sketch and Painting Effects Set

What are you waiting for? Retro Photoshop actions are waiting for you!

Vintage Dream Ps Actions

Vintage Chic

Actions – Vintage

Photo Coloring II

Old Black and White

Exclusive Vintage

Dreamy Light Action

Magenta Pop Action

Photoshop Vintage Action III

Photoshop Action – Vintage

Photoshop Actions Pack 1

Beach Vintage

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HTML5 video players can be simply downloaded and installed to your website as plugins or embedded to web browsers. Note that most of these video players have fallback to Flash, so you can choose video format to watch. Moreover IE 6, 7, 8 doesn’t support HTML5.

I’m pretty sure this round-up will help you decide which HTML5 video player suits you better. I browsed dozens of MB of information to find these best players for you. Now it’s your turn! Choose the HTML5 video player and explain your choice! The explanation is desirable but not obligatory. I’ll be waiting for your feedvack.

1. Vimeo HTML5 Video Player

This embeddable HTML5 video player has free and paid versions. It works smoother than flash player, loads faster and its buffering time is pretty cool. But note that Vimeo HTML player doesn’t allow watching videos in a full screen mode.

To embed a Vimeo video click the ‘Embed’ button and get the html5 code. You can also choose to use old code which is flash.

2. YouTube HTML5 Player

YouTube is the most popular hosting platform for video files. The HTML5 video player can be quickly embeded via iFrame as it is necessary for ads. It looks like this:

As you probably remember YouTube video player was a Flash-based solution, so site visitors will view your embedded video in Flash or HTML5 players. It depends on their viewing environment and preferences.

To make a choice – which player to use (HTML5 or Flash) for major videos – join the HTML Trial here.

Thanks to the ability to use HTML, YouTube videos are well displayed on mobile devices.

3. Video.js HTML5 Video Player

It is an open source HTML5 video player that is good for responsive web designs. It also looks good on retina displays. You can simply download the Video.js source files and host them on your own servers, or use the free CDN hosted version that is often recommended

The player currently allows a fullscreen view in Safari, Chrome as well as on mobile devices too. There are some skins that will make the HTML5 video player look like popular video players (YouTube, Hulu).

4. Flowplayer

Flowplayer is a minimalistic responsive HTML5 player for your website. You can use its free or paid version. Take a look at the most significant features of Flowplayer:

• Responsive layout;
• Google Analytics;
• Cuepoints;
• Native fullscrin;
• Keyboard shortcuts;
• Subtitles;
• Slow motion;
• Random seeking;
• Retina ready;
• Custom branding (in paid version only).

5. SublimeVideo Player

This framework was created to work in all browsers and on the latest mobile devices. It doesn’t host videos, so you need to upload the files to your server or to integrate them from YouTube.

Along with the default SublimeVideo player design there are two more skins. It’s also possible to order branded video player designs and to interactive extension modules.

You can also configure Google Analytics and track what happens with your videos.

6. JW Player 6

JW player for non-commercial use is available for free, but if you want to have more enhensed capabilities and use the player for business purposes you can choose 1 of 3 pricing plans (monthly or annual).

With this HTML5 video player your videos are guarantied to be well displayed on PC, tablets and smartphones. JW Player 6 perfectly works with all commonly used video and audio formats, so there will be no troubles with it.

Generally this cloud-hosted player is liked by many people for its simplicity and reliability.

7. Projekktor HTML5 Video Player

This free web video player is a good self-hosted and open source solution for your website. It’s written in JavaScript and plays both Flash content and native videos. This player will please you with the possibility to embed playlists.

The Projekktor is compatible with the most common OS (Android, Blackberry, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Linux, Mac OS, Windows 8 and previous versions) and browsers (Chrome, Firexo, Safari, Opera, Abrowse, Iron, IE).

8. LeanBack Player

LeanBack player is a JavaScript based open source HTML5 video and audio player UI. It’s free for non-commercial use or can be ordered for business purposes. There are several powerful extensions that can be freely downloaded right from the player website:

• Google Analytics Tracking extension;
• HD Button extension;
• InVideo Playlist extension;
• HTML5 LocalStorage extension;
• Piwik Tracking extension;
• XSPF Audio Playlist extension.

This player can be controlled via keyboard that is quite convenient when working with desktop browsers. The keyboard shortcuts are similar to those that are widely-used by desktop players.

9. Kaltura HTML5 Video Player

Kaltura is a free and open source HTML5 video player that enables you to simply create customized cross-browsers and cross-devices skins to match all your website designs. There are also a lot of player templates within the Kaltura player.

This player supports multiple languages and integrates with all the major Ad networks. You can see how it works when visiting Wikipedia.com. This portal successfully uses the player for years.

It is super light and doesn’t require any additional modules to run.

10. Codo Player

Codo Player is a video and audio player for web that works good with both HTML5 and Flash files. It is well displayed on PC as well as on all kinds of mobile devices.

Codo player is suitable for personal websites, blogs, online TV channels, e-commerce pages, etc. There are additional social sharing plugin that is displayed within every single video.

The player displays video or audio with poster images in native browser fullscreen mode (where applicable). It is also compatible with major browsers (depends on video/audio format): IE9+, Chrome 6+, FireFox 3.6+, Safari 5+, IOS Safari 3.2 +, Opera 10.6 +.

11. Cincopa HTML5 Video Player

One more solution to be mentioned – Cincopa. It is one the of leading video hosting platform, super user-friendly, offers tons of amazing customization features.

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