Tutorial - YouTube

iWeb Enhancer YouTube Tutorial

Step 1 - Sign up for a YouTube Account

It is quick and easy, and best of all, it is free. Visit YouTube now to sign up and begin sharing your videos with the world.

Step 2 - Upload Your Video to YouTube

Step 4 - Add the Code in iWeb

In iWeb, go to the page you have created for your movie. Use the shape tool to draw a rounded rectangle on the page where you want the movie to appear. Make the rectangle the same width and height that is shown in the “<embed>” tag of the code you copied in Step 3. (Note: There are two sizes in the code, one for object and one for embed. The second size at the end of the code is the one you want.)

Double-click inside the rounded rectangle and type the following: 

This tag tells iWeb Enhancer to pay attention to the following code. Without it, iWeb Enhancer will skip right over your code and not insert your movie. Be sure to not include any spaces or other characters before the tag.

Now, paste the code from YouTube directly following the BeginHTMLData tag. Make sure that you paste it inside the rectangle and not in a separate text box.

Step 5 - Publish Your Site

Step 6 - Run iWeb Enhancer

Step 7 - You’re Done!

If you followed this tutorial correctly you should now have the YouTube video on your site. If you are using .Mac it is already online and ready to go. If you published to a folder, you can now upload it to your server using whatever means you normally do. If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comments section below. Thanks for sticking with me all the way to the end! Doesn’t success feel good?

One More Thing - I am currently working on several other tutorials for iWeb Enhancer. I would appreciate your feedback in the comments section about this tutorial. How could I make it better? What did you like? What could be more clear? Do you have ideas for tutorials that I haven’t listed on my front page? Let me hear them.

Run iWeb Enhancer and choose your site folder. If you are using .Mac, navigate to your iDisk > Web > Sites > iWeb folder and choose your site folder. NOTE: If you are using .Mac and you have iDisk Syncing turned on, you have to manually sync your iDisk before and after running iWeb Enhancer! To sync, click on the sync button next to your iDisk in the Finder.

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You can publish your site to .Mac or to a folder. For the purposes of this tutorial we will publish to a folder

Click on the “Upload” tab and enter the required information about your video. Click on Continue to go to Step 2 of the upload process.

Choose your movie file and click on the Upload button. Depending on the size of your movie, this may take a while.

Step 3 - Get the Code

When your movie is finished uploading, you will be taken to the “Video Details” page. Scroll to the bottom and copy the “Embed HTML” code from the “Sharing” section.

If you somehow miss this step, you can go to your account area and click on “My Videos”. Next, click the “Edit Video” button next to your video.