That seems like a hot question these days. A friend of mine created a video using Windows Movie Maker. Now she wants to put it on her website. But she’s not sure how. Here’s my suggestion.

The quick way is to upload the WMV file to your site then use a code like this in your pages (make sure you’re pointing to your video)
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 <object NAME="Player" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" align="left" hspace="10" type="application/x-oleobject" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param NAME="URL" VALUE="yourfile.wmv></param><param>
</param><param NAME="AUTOSTART" VALUE="false"></param>
<param name="showControls" value="true"></param>
<embed WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" align="left" hspace="10" SRC="yourfile.wmv" TYPE="application/x-oleobject" AUTOSTART="false">
</embed>
</object>

This is by far the quickest, easiest solution. However - I would advise you to use Flash. Any web video is better with flash because of compatibility. WMV is a pain to view on Macs and Linux, MOV is a pain on Windows.

How to you make your video flash? Convert it using a converter like Super. Upload the SWF to your site then use the following code to embed it into your web page (again make sure you edit the code to enter the video’s URL properly)

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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="myMovieName">
<param NAME=movie VALUE="myFlashMovie.swf">
</param><param NAME=quality VALUE=high></param><param NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<embed src="/support/flash/ts/documents/myFlashMovie.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400"
NAME="myMovieName" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></param></object>

In both codes, you can edit the movie height and width to suit.

You can of course use [tag]Google Video[/tag] or [tag]YouTube[/tag]. Create an account, and upload it they’ll give you a code to paste onto your website. That’s just as quick an easy as the first option. In my experience that works - but I’ve found sometimes the uploaded video quality turns out really bad even though the original you uploaded is of good quality. So, for my own web sites, I prefer using option number 2 above and use Google Video/Youtube and other videos sites for promotion.