example tutorial site: http://www.bravenewcode.com/minimalia/installation/ 

 

 

What's is SIAB?

"showinabox" is a way for videobloggers to make beautiful vlogs for free.

We use WordPress with a video-centric theme and plugins, and and provide tutorials.

We are videobloggers ourselves..and built SIAB to help ourselves.

We hope we can make it easy to install and customize without needing to be super geeky.

 

If you are geeky, we encourage you to look under the hood, add/change, and contribute back.

Everything is GPL.

 

Why is SIAB cool?

The complete package:

We've customized the blogging platform so it defaults to a video-centric theme.

It's all about your videos - SIAB is built for 640px wide delivery right in the browser window.

We made cool graphic styles for you, and made them easy to customize.

We've included plugins built just for videobloggers to help your audience dig into your content.

Choices for your audience - they can watch and subscribe to the video format they like best.

We made tutorials to teach you the smoothest installation and workflow.

We got your back - we keep improving the plugins and adding more styles.

Plus the showinabox google group for sharing tips and tricks.

 

Included Plugins

vPIP - Offer users their choice of video playback in the web page, plus separate RSS feeds for each format.

Recent videos - Display quick visual links to recent posts in your sidebar or anywhere you choose.

Related videos - Help your audience find related content.

Video Archive - A rich visual summary of previous posts (not a long list of blog entries).

Pledge Drive (coming soon) - Fund your show. Set a goal and get your audience to set up automatic monthly donations.

 

Tutorials

 

Download SIAB

 

Recommended Plug-Ins (needs editing)

 

People/Hire us:

Cheryl Colan

Jen Simmons

Michael Verdi

Charles Iliya Krempeaux

Enric Teller

Chris Ritke

Devlon

Rudy

David Howell

Rupert

Milt

Jay

Ryanne

 

Get Involved

• email list
• wiki
• download and customize
• make a kickass videoblog

 

Recommended Hosts

• 1&1
• DreamHost

 

Resources/Allies

• Engage media
• Miro
• SX/GetMedia
• Creative Commons
• Internet Archive

 

Example sites:

• Ryanishungry
• ???