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Inserting a You-Tube video into your website

Please note: While this procedure is straight forward, if you are not familiar with HTML you may find it easier to get Butterfly Internet to do it for you.

  1. Insert the video into You-tube (refer to their online help if you require assistance)
  2. On You-tube, go to the video that you want to insert into your site
  3. To the right of the video is the word "Embed" followed by some HTML code that looks like:

 

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0Q8DriPCX2o&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0Q8DriPCX2o&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

  1. Copy this embed code (Ctrl C on windows machines)
  2. Log into your website and go to edit the page where you want to put the video (Click here for more help to edit a page)
  3. Press the [Show/hide] or "HTML" button at the top of the text editor
  4. Scroll down to the position that you want the video, click the cursur where you want the video to go and paste the embed code
  5. If you clicked the "HTML" button, press "Update". If you clicked on [show/hide], click it again and your changes will be added in.
  6. Press "Save"
  7. Go to the page and make sure that it works