Saturday, June 7, 2008

Tutorial Seven: Posting You Tube videos and Flickr badges to blogs - explaining the process

~ I am going to try and make this sound as uncomplicated as possible :) ~


Step by step process to embed You Tube videos into your Blog

1. Go to http://www.youtube.com
2. Search for the video you want to pos
t on your blog.
3. C
lick on your video to bring it on the page.
4. On the right hand side there is a sentence of Java script under "Embed."
5. Select a
ll of the script.

















6. Paste Java script into a new post.
7. Give your video a title.


Step by step process required to embed a www.Flickr.com badge into your Blog

1. You
need a yahoo.com ID to log onto www.flickr.com
2. Sign in.
3. Browse and u
pload photos from your computer following the guide.

4. Edit your photos details and add a description - to make a photo badge, your photo has to be set to "public"
5. Once you've uploaded your photos, preselect the ones you want for your badge by making them"public." If you don't want them on your badge, make them "private."
6.Now, at the very bottom of the page there are several options you can do. In the "help" row, selected "tools."
7. Then on the right hand side, select "build a badge."


























8. Follow the guide to make a badge.
9. At the end of the guideit prompts you to copy and paste the "code."
10. Back to your blog, go to your blog "layout."
11. Click on "add page element."
12. Select "HTML/JavaScript.

13. Paste code and give you badge a title.
14. "Save."
15. Check out your lovely new photo badge on your blog.


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