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Next Level : Design Level 1 (CSS)

Warning

The "/skins/default" directory MUST NOT be deleted, it is mandatory to be able to share the video, to use the full-screen with static skins and to load the player if the skin used (for example "tango") has been removed.

Add a skin

Download the skin archive, unzip it and copy its content in the "skins" directory. If you want to use the skin, replace "s=default" in the html code by "s=name_of_the_skin_dir".

Disable a function

To disable one of the menu button, you'll have to delete the associated image. Then the link will become obsolete.
For the "Share" button, delete the "share.png" file.
For the "Download" button, delete the "download.png" file (You can delete the "download.php" file, too)
You can replace the automatic playing mode (according to the plugins installed on the client computer) to offer a choice (between java and media player) for the playing mode (older release working) by removing the file "play.png". After, it's still possible to disable one of two playing mode : remove "plugin.png" or "java.png"
and at last stop button by "stop.png"

Warning

Someone wrote it on Framablog (a French website about free software) :

YouTube, at the beginning, was designed for non-professionnal to exchange videos they made. For them not to be redistributed, the YouTube founders have chosen flash format, so 80% of the users were unable to download the video.

There are programs (keepvid, videodownloader) that allow you to download Youtube or Dailymotion videos, so these 20% aware users can download the videos. (in fact 100% of users do it since they take a look at the cache of the web browser after playing to find the video supposedly inaccessible)

For ITheora, it the same. If you remove the "download" or "share" buttons, it doesn't prevent downloading or sharing : if you can read the HTML code, you know were the file is located. It might prevent 80% of users to download the files either.

Create your skin

It is possible to create your own skin, as long as you are using the same file names and formats for the images. (Watch out! these are all png files, except "null.jpg")
The design is to be defined in the "style.css" file.