Monday, May 31, 2010

Tutorial Eight: Posting YouTube Videos & Flickr Badges to Blogs

Task One


Uploading a YouTube Video

Once you've finished editing your video, made sure it's less than 10 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, and in an acceptable format, you're ready to upload it.

  • Click the Upload link at the top of any YouTube page.
  • Click the "Browse" button to browse for the video file you'd like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.
  • Click the 'Upload Video' button to start the uploading process.
  • As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You're not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
  • Click the 'Save changes' button to save the updates you've made to the video file.
YouTube Help: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57924



Embedding a YouTube Video

To embed a video from YouTube, just copy the code from the "Embed" box on the video's YouTube page. You can find the "Embed" box in the "About This Video" box when you're watching the video. You can also get the code from the "Embed HTML" box on the "Edit Video" page if the video belongs to your YouTube account.

To embed a YouTube video within a blog post, first click "Edit HTML" from within the post editor. Next, paste the video's code into the body of your post. That's it!


blogger help : http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80767





Task Two:

How to embed a Flickr Badge into your blog

Flickr also has a similar method to post their images on your blog. Flickr is a photo sharing and hosting website enabling you to share photos with your friends and also put them in your blog. Go to Flickr.com and register to get a new account. Then click Upload photos to go to Upload window. Clickon Browse to locate the photos on your disk and then click open. Choose options to make them Public or Private and put tags on them and then click on Upload. Tags are words used to categorize and describe photos. After your photos are uploaded click on save after adding Title and description.

Click on the photo to open it and click on Blog This link on top of the photo. You will be asked to configure a blog to post to. Click that link. Choose your blogging application Blogger/Beta Blogger. If beta Blogger Flickr will ask to have access to your beta account. Click the Head over to Google link. Click on Grant Access. Put in your Username and Password and then go through remaining steps to post the photo to your blog.

Read more: http://www.blogdoctor.me/2006/12/youtube-flickr-in-blogger-beta.html#ixzz0pYIH2DKO

You can also create your ownFlickr Badge of Photos by going to : http://www.flickr.com/badge_new.gne
Choose whether you want a Flash badge or a Html badge the former slows down your loading a bit. Go through a series of steps till you come to the code which you can copy and Paste

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