It's fun to plan podcasts. It's a learning experience to design them. It's great to record podcasts. It's joyful to edit them and watch them change from a raw recording to a professional product.
But at some point the rubber has to hit the road. That podcast you spent so much time creating needs to be put up on your website.
Now there are many ways to get a podcast on to a website. The easiest of course is to use a podcast publisher. These websites perform the same function as YouTube does for videos. They bring together the creators and producers of podcasts with the consumers of podcasts. Each of these publishers has their own process for submitting and then embedding podcasts. So I'm not going to deal with them.
Equally, many people use WordPress or other content managers to maintain their websites. Putting podcasts on WordPress websites is worthy of an article all by itself.
Instead I'm going to focus in this article on how to put podcasts on your website when it is a basic html site. I'm also going to presume that you aren't going to just turn the file over to a webmaster to install. You are either going to do it yourself or you need to know how it is going to be done.
First off you need to realize that a podcast is just an MP3 file. Theoretically it can be any type of audio file but the MP3 format is currently the best and most flexible for the purpose. And like any other file it needs to be uploaded to the website in order to use the web to distribute it. You can use an FTP client for this purpose. Or you can use one of many FTP in hiding techniques. These are generally part of your web editing tool and go by the name of upload or post or publish.
Once you have the MP3 file uploaded you are ready to use it.
If you were to simply put the http: location on the website as an "a" type basic link, the process would work. However, it wouldn't be a podcast. In that case, what would happen is the file would be downloaded to the audience member's computer and a media player such as Windows Media Play or QuickTime or Real Player would launch outside of the browser.
In fact you may want to provide that capability to allow your audience to upload the podcast to their MP3 players.
Instead you should use the embed command with the src or source file being the location of the file. This will cause the audience member's MP3 software to launch within the browser. You also have the ability to modify the size of the player so that only a control will show.
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