Embedding a Video from YouTube

You can have a video clip appear right in your blog post, and it's easy. You have probably visited YouTube many times in the past. One the right-hand side of the screen, you will generally see two pieces of information. One of them is the url for that video. The usual "http://" will be evident. You could embed that link in your blog. People could click it and go straight to the YouTube video.

A better method is to copy the "embed code": 

1. Just below the video on YouTube, click the "Share" link. 
2. Click on "Embed."  
3. Examine the check boxes and check the desired ones. Each one will change the embed code slightly. 
4. Click "Copy."
5. Go to the draft of your blog post. In the upper left (probably just under the title, you will see a button that says "Compose," and one that says "HTML." Select "HTML."
6. Click on the spot where you wold like the YouTube video to appear and paste.
7. Click on the "Compose" button. You will see a large square representing the position of the video.

On this Memorial Day, we bring you a tribute to our fallen troops.

The music is "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennit. The creator of this video does not give her name, but writes, "The pictures are from various sources on the web, and the editing is done painstakingly by hand using Windows Movie Maker. This took me forever, but I hope it will be appreciated."

Yes, I can assure you it will...