How to embed video

I am not the technical one in our business. When I say things like, “even I can use the update tools”, I’m not joking around. I’ve just never had a natural affinity to the computer. I have other skills (or so I tell myself) that are just as valuable. Fortunately for me, Mark, my partner is a computer genius, so we balance each other out quite well. Yet, there’s no getting around learning a thing or two when you’re in this business, especially sitting next to a technical wiz who says things like, “why don’t you embed the video on the site?”.

So, I’m here to share some of the lessons I’m learning.

My lesson for the week: How to embed a YouTube video on your website or blog.

On YouTube, just under the video clip, there’s a “share” button. Click on “share”, then find the “embed” button. Click on this and it will pop up a few lines of gibberish (HTML code). Verify your width capacity or type in a desired width (for our blog we used a width of 350 px). Then, select and copy the HTML.

Now back on your own site or blog-- Using the editing tools, click on “source”. Find the end of the paragraph where you want to insert the video, hit return a couple times to give you some space, then paste the HTML you copied from above. Hit “save”, and viola! You’ve embedded video on your site!

This is the video that I embedded this week for one of our clients (a european auto shop). Embedding video, Star Wars... sheesh, I’m becoming a regular computer geek!