Tutorial 7

Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs: Explaining the process

Task One: Explain the step by step process required to embed You Tube videos into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

Task One: Explain the step by step process required to embed You Tube videos into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

The easiest way to embed a YouTube video into a blog post (or page) is to copy the video’s embed code and paste it into your blog post.
YouTube embed codes can be found next to any video on YouTube.com:

After you paste the code into your post and save the post, the video will be embedded for you. When you save your post, the embed code will also be automatically translated into a shorter, WordPress specific code that will look something like this:

You can move this code around your post to determine where the video should be shown.
You can embed multiple videos in a post.

Another way to embed a YouTube video is to copy the URL of a video, go to to the Add Media section of your write page (the page where you compose your blog posts), click on Add Video, paste the URL into the box, and click the Insert into Post button:

Task Two: Explain the step by step process required to embed a Flickr Badge into your Blog. Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

Step 1: Go to” help” on main flickr page alongside it there is a “tools” section.
Once in tools you select on the right hand side “make a badge”
Step 2: Create your own Flickr badge
3.You chose an HTML badge (Change)
4.Choose what you'd like to display.Select “everyone photo’s “when you are a first timer user.
5.Set the layout options.
6.Choose colors for your badge.
7.Get the code to copy and paste into your website.
Get code and go to “page layout on blooger” then paste it in the “Add Page element”