I've noticed a few people having trouble embedding Youtube videos. I'm seeing two common errors: people are either copying Youtube's embedding code, or they're trying to use the whole URL.
The software we use here makes embedding Youtube videos pretty easy. I'm going to walk through doing one here:
Here's the entire URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk&feature=related
Of course, we can't see it if we don't follow the link... and you don't know if you want to or not. After all, I sometimes do have a questionable sense of humor...
If you look at the URL, you'll see about the middle a section that reads
When you go to post it, you're going to use the code yt within square brackets to start it, then /yt afterwards. Because those brackets tell the software that it's a direction, for demonstration purposes, I'm going to write it here with {}. You'll type this: {yt}FzRH3iTQPrk{/yt} (remember, those are really supposed to be square brackets). You'll get a result like this:
[yt]FzRH3iTQPrk[/yt]
See -- I told you I had a questionable sense of humor!
The software we use here makes embedding Youtube videos pretty easy. I'm going to walk through doing one here:
Here's the entire URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk&feature=related
Of course, we can't see it if we don't follow the link... and you don't know if you want to or not. After all, I sometimes do have a questionable sense of humor...
If you look at the URL, you'll see about the middle a section that reads
. That's the part you want to look at. You want to highlight and copy everything between = and the ampersand (&), the part that readsv=FzRH3iTQPrk&
.FzRH3iTQPrk
When you go to post it, you're going to use the code yt within square brackets to start it, then /yt afterwards. Because those brackets tell the software that it's a direction, for demonstration purposes, I'm going to write it here with {}. You'll type this: {yt}FzRH3iTQPrk{/yt} (remember, those are really supposed to be square brackets). You'll get a result like this:
[yt]FzRH3iTQPrk[/yt]
See -- I told you I had a questionable sense of humor!