It exists 2 versions of the player, Carbon and Black. Depending on the background color of your site, use the player color that creates the most adapted contrast.

If you haven't brought your personnal touch on your video player yet, go in MANAGEMENT > Settings > Video. The carbon player is the one selected by default.

You can also choose the progression bar color (which is the related button color too). You're proposed blue by default.

The quick color range suggets 12 colors (you might recognize this color range as it's the one you use to color your tags)

If you don't find the color your want in the range, you can type directly the desired color hexa code.

The by default size changes. Until now, we've used a 4:3 (320x240).

But, we've noticed that more and more each day, the 9:6 size is the one that you use the most on your sites. You upload an average of 3 times more 16:9 videos than 4:3.

From now, the player by default size changes for 16:9 (432x243)

We decided to dedicate a specific page to your video playing analysis. In MANAGEMENT > Statistics, there's a new entry: the Video Statistics page.

The add of this new page gave us more freedom to review the video stats.
Here are the novelties:

For an exemple, now, you'll know easily the statistics of which video you're consulting, thanks to the thumbnail and related information:
1/ Title
2/ Lenght
3/ Size 4:3 or 16:9

If a doubt shall remain, click on the thumbnail to reach the video playing.

We're planning a maintenance intervention during Saturday (17th) night.

Greg, Jerome and Sebastien are going in our data center to dynamize our server. Don't worry, they are not weak, to the contrary, they are in great shape. It's just that Sebastien who always lies in wait for a tip, got brand new and powefull processors at a very low price! They are also a lot more ecologic than the former ones. They feed with a 30% less energy.

Thus they will be set up this week-end. We'll take the ocasion to add some memory and update the file server(NAS)

We'll put online a series of novelties concerning the videos. And who says new functionnalities is saying new setting interface in the backoffice.

Today we're not starting with a novelty but with a little re-organisation.

Till then, if you didn't have a Google Account, you could duplicate the WM videos on YouTube using the WMaker account.

Taking the occasion of the classified ads webservice overhaul, we also reviewed the display modules.

Tabs and Links modes have joined the Classic mode.

Tabs and Links modes enable display in a same module the latest ads and the ads by category. Remember, with the Classic mode you had to choose between the two.

From the advanced settings, define the number of classifieds to display in the module. You can also modify the column titles: "Categories" and "Latest". At last, it's possible to display or not pieces of information as date, author or category (for the tab "latest")

The year 2008 flied for us. I know you're keen on reading the list of future functionnalities, but meanwhile, here's a review of 2008.

- 13 new templates
- Server new architecture, with a very performant response time < 250 ms
- Module overhaul: headlines, with the flow, dropdown menu...
- The classified ads overhaul
- Tag management new system
- Management of all alphabets with UTF-8
- SNS V1
- Video page overhaul
- Calendar overhaul
- Uploader V2
- iPhone version V1
- iPhone version v2 (Article, Video, Calendar, Gallery)
- Blog server
- HQ video
- Management of You tube API
- Video player V2
- Forum overhaul
- New portal
- New customisable mobile version
- Store overhaul
- Data center change for a more ecologic
- New search engine
- Improvement of the V4 Backoffice
- Open ID
- V4 launch

For 2009, I can promise we'll duplicate the number of the notes and we're preparing very exiting new stuff.

The year ends up well for us: For the first time since the 10th of October 2003, we have no pending support question. Compared with usually an average of 50 questions, WMaker might be nearly reaching perfection, unless new years eve preparations would be the reason.

More seriously, WMaker has realised the better year of its history and improved by a +26% this last quarter. The crisis isn't affecting us for the moment, we're even going to widen our staff in 2009.

We wish you all  a very good year 2009.
A special thought for our first client and also friend Tarik Essaadi to whom we wish a good recovery.

All WMaker Team, Sébastien, Jérôme, Gillian, Laurent, Lésia, Samir, Sébastien2, Greg, Jean-Mathieu, Jerome2, Christian, Katia and Christophe (our fresh new).

We pursue this way and we took advantage of the overhaul of the classified ads module to connect WMaker with Google Base.

Google Base is an open data base that enables submitting structured information, as a labour demand, a real estate ad, a product information file...

The advantage of feeding a shared data base is to enable to create, in the near future,  new search engines way more precise.

It's a bêta system, it's not already used by Google for its search engine, but there's no doubt that it is the future of  the information search. Google Base is not the only initiative, there are other services as FreeBase, DBpedia, Yahoo Search Monkey ...

Asking to the ones awared, we are desperately searching for a similar service in french.

WMaker team wishes you a Merry Christmas.
Many of us took their afternoon off in order to focus on final preparations.

Carbon is a template with a long story behind it. It was ready months ago, but the put online has been differed a lot of times.