Thing #13: Embed a video onto your blog

Description:

Sites like YouTube and others let you embed videos onto your blog. That means, you can make the video appear on your blog. This is probably the most popular way of videocasting these days, other than using a YouTube account.

If you have never put code onto a website before, this may sound much more difficult than it really is. In the end, you are just cutting and pasting some funny words into your blog that will make the video show. Don't be intimidated by this: geeks have a habit of making easy things sound hard. Don't be afraid to ask for help, if you get stuck.

Hints:

• Go to a YouTube video page (perhaps the one you searched for for thing #11) and copy the "embed" code. It should appear on the right hand side of the screen. You may have to click "more" to find this code.
• Add the video to your blog:
  
• In blogger,
  
• you create a new post and click the "edit html" tab on the top right of the edit box.
• Paste the embed code into the box. And that should be about it.
  
• Wordpress has a different approach:
• create a new post.
• Underneath the editor is an upload section, with tabs that say "Upload", "Browse All", "Videos" and "Slideshows." Click "videos".
• Put the URL (web address) into that box -- important: this is not the same as the embed code!
• You will see a little bit of code in your editor. Publish that with a title and you should be done!