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

A step by step process to place a youtube video on your blog:

From the post editor (that is the 2nd to last box on the far left)
Thne click the add video icon from the toolbar
Next, click browse to find the video you want to upload to your blog from your computer
Keep in mind your video must be one of the listed formats and under 100mb
Add a title to your video and accept the terms and conditions checkbox
Click upload video
You will then see the upload progress below the post editor
When your video is finished uploading you will then see the words 'processing video'. You will not be able to publish your post until this processing has finished. Processing of your video may take several minutes depending on the size of the video. Once loaded you will be able to see a picture from the video in your post.

If you would like to post a video from youtube rather than from your computer, you can do that too
You just visit the youtube video page and copy the link in the 'embed' box.
while your on your blogger post then paste the code you copied from youtube into the post where you want it to appear.
Click the preview link to ensure you have copied the link successfully.



A step by step process to embed a flickr badge into your blog:

To start with you have to have an account with yahoo id
Once you have loged into flikr account you click on the button "YOU" and your flickr I.D will pop up above this and you will use this for the badge template.
Take a copy of your flickr i.d
Then in www.blogger.com add your newly created flickr badge to the side links (on the left)
The flickr badge is nothing more than an HTML
Click into your flickr bade and then look for "person i.d" and this is where you paste your flickr i.d
Now go back to your main page on your blog and click template and you choose your own spot where you want the badge.
Copy and paste all the HTML infomation into this template.
Then press preview to see if your o.k with what the pictures look like.
When happy press save my template.
Then when you go online to your blog your pictures will be there.