Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tutorial 8: Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs

Explain the step by step process required to embed You Tube videos into your Blog

Embedding a You Tube video

1) In the search engine type in www.youtube.com
2) Once on the You Tube website, type in the name of the video you are wanting to embed.
3) A list of videos corresponding to the name will appear, choose the correct video and click on it.
4) You can view the video by pressing the 'play' button.
5) After you are sure you want to embed the video click the 'embed' button on the right hand side below the video.
6) You can change the size, colour and add a border to the video, which is done by clicking on the formating options below.
7) The code of the video will appear highlighted. Copy this code.
8) Log onto your blog and click add new post.
9) In the text box, paste the code of the video.
10) Click publish post and you can view the video that appears on your blog.

If you are confused, view this clip and hopefully it will help!!!



Embedding a Flickr badge

Follow these instructions to enbed a badge:

1) Sign into Flickr.com
2) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on 'tools'
3) Getting your stuff onto flickr page will appear. on the right collumn of the page click 'hey, where is the badge?'
4) Click to make a flash badge, this means that the pictures will move as you navigate around your blog.
5) Click 'next:choose content'
6) Choose the content you want and then click 'next:layout'
7) Select the layout options you want, Click 'next: colors'
8) Choose the different colours that you want, Click 'next: get code'
9) Copy the code for the badge
10 Back on your blog, click customize
11 On the right hand collumn, click 'add a gadget'
12 Click on HTML/javascript
13 Paste in the badge code
14 Publish post

Your badge will now appear on your blog!!!

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