inserting youtube videos

Next lesson is getting a youtube video to show up here.

Here I go…

Hummmm…well, after MANY tries of doing it the “right” way: clicking on “add video”-pasting the URL code-clicking “insert into post” and being unsuccessful every time (even with saving and previewing, which is how they say you can see the video since it will only show up as type on your “writing” page) I decided what the hell and I just copied the youtube URL onto the page I am writing and it worked!

I did have to “save” and then “preview” to see it….BUT I CAN SEE IT 🙂 whooohooo!

Mission accomplished! So much for trying to implement the reading of instructions habit. This experience does not support it.

 

Including an image on your blog post-take 3 (Flickr)

Have you been to Flickr? Wow, so this might be one of the most exciting places on the web I have been to yet!

If you are into taking, looking at, and/or sharing pictures….I HIGHLY SUGGEST checking out the tour of flickr to see what they have to offer! (Yippie….I just took the plunge and hit the “hide/show the kitchen sink” button and it gave me more options for editing my post…including changing font color…which i love!)

OK, back to uploading images….

I just joined flickr and started uploading pictures to my “photostream” as they call it. For now I have made my images “public” so anyone can see them, but you have the option to change that at any time and with every picture. Pretty cool.

Uploading to flickr from my computer was just like any other uploading an image experience (see my post Including an image on your blog post-take 2 for help with that). No problem. And then it’s just like “copying this link” from the web as in “Including an image on your blog post-take 2”.

What is different about Flickr…. it has made a way for me to get images from .mac photo books onto my blog (and I am hoping my e-newsletter) by allowing me to have a place on the web that I can upload the URL to my blog and my newsletter.

The easier way to do this for the blog is to just copy a picture (that you are allowed to…ask permission first if it is not your picture please) from an .mac photo library onto your desktop or computer and then upload the image from there. This works fine for the blog, but my e-newsletter will only allow me to use URL web based pictures and I have not been successful at doing so from a .mac photo library. Now I can drag the picture onto my desktop (or copy it into iphoto) and then upload it to my Flickr photostream. From my Flickr account I can then copy that link and upload it into my e-newsletter (I HOPE!).

They do video too…I’ll have to check that out later.

Let me know if you try it out!

 

Including an image on your blog post-take 2

Here we go…

I am first going to try finding an image on the web from a .mac photo album.

Found one. I right clicked on it and chose “copy link location” (f.y.i. the “dummies” say the language of this may differ a bit in different browsers).OK before I go through what I have been trying to accomplish for the last ten minutes, I think I will sum it up as .mac is not compatible with this function, as far as I know (ok maybe I am a dummy…shoot.).

Try try again. Now I am trying to “copy an image” from a website of free photos. OK choose one,right click on it and choose “copy link location”. Come back here, put my cursor where I want the picture to show up on the page, click “add an image”, “paste” the link location in the URL source space. Write a caption. Pick the alignment on the page (I tried “right” here -just because I’m trying things out.Oh I just “previewed this post” and the right alignment? Doesn’t look like much to the right to me.) and hit the post to page button and …..

wowzers…it worked!

Ok, I can’t seem to move the cursor to write below this picture…darn…I mean yeah, no one said becoming a genius would be easy.

Somewhere cool looking in London

 

Including an image on your blog post-take 1

Ok, page 36 in the “Blogging for Dummies” (which I will refer to as Becoming a genius in Blogging from now on) teaches me how to add an image (picture…got it?). SO here I go…I’m reading instructions…it’s new for me.

Bailey is learning too!

Wow! That was pretty darn easy. But that was just uploading it from my computer…which I am already a “genius” at doing successfully (no book necessary). It’s just like uploading anything else…find it on your computer…click it..decide how big you want it (extremely user friendly-thumbnail, med, large…my kind of choices!)…and where on the page you want it (center, left, right…again easy peasy) and presto magic…there it is.

Ok, deep breathe….give it a shot.

Next onto to adding an image from the web…..

 

On my way to becoming an Amazon Associates genius

Again I am trying to learn this associates recommendation linking extravaganza.

Let me try it this way…

Helpful Blogging tips

Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Wow…so that seemed to work!

Huh -bless the helpful blogger who took the time to help me with my question on the help forum here!

I’m going to try this again and then explain how I did it for ALL of us!

 

the blogoshere & e-newsletters. no “dummies” here.

Sorry it’s been so long since I had a moment to write. I am currently learning a bunch about blogging with my handy “Blogging for Dummies” book. Never considered myself an “dummy”, and sort of hate that probably the biggest book series since the encyclopedia refers to people as “dummies”, but I am amazed about how much there is to learn and they sure are helpful.

I am currently in a “redesign” project of my hellomellow website and very excited about it. I will be using this blog for a little while to help me practice blogging and linking my blog with my newsletter (you can click onto that blue word and my newsletter company’s website will appear if you want to check them out..impressed?). I know this may not sound really exciting to you, but hey….maybe you will pick up a thing or two from my practicing?

Now I am going to try this nifty Amazon Associates thingy I signed up for. We should see a picture and a link to “click through” and buy this wonderfully helpful book on blogging (for geniuses in the making!) Let’s see if this works.

<iframe src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=wwwhellomello-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0470230177&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr&#8221; style=”width:120px;height:240px;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe>

AND my newsletter “subscribers” should be getting an email about a new post.

Til next time!

 

my dog bailey

i was just thinking…..why sleep when you can blog or wiki??? i kind of have that rush like when i’m lost in a painting and find myself up all night with no concept of time….and then bailey crawls up on to my lap and i look down at the floor under my chair and there is a pile up of 10,000,000,000 dog toys. ohps and now she is crying  and barking at me. and they say dogs have no sense of time???

see you  soon

 

good questions

so tonight i was at a tarot discussion group….no really, i was. it was really cool. in an awesome arty loft in venice beach, which made it hard for me to meditate on the tarot card of the evening for the whole five minutes without drifting into wishing i could just let that artsy part of me take over and live in this one freezing cold room with pictures and paintings and musical instruments scattered everywhere and then to wake from the daydream or duskdream? to an image of my beautiful town home and shrug and giggle at myself that i could be living in such a beautiful home and yet longing for this cold cement cube. ah the dualities….they are everywhere in my life.

But anyway, what i loved best about the night (and there were obviously untold favorites) was listening to my friend ask questions….really good questions. listening to her reminded me of my aunt and uncle and how amazing it is to be siting across from them as they listen to me speak and they formulate these amazing questions. questions that make me feel like i am being heard and that someone is genuinely interested in what i are saying. i know this may sound silly to some, but i really and truly feel that it is a VERY different feeling than talking to most people (including myself!). what these people do have in common is that they are journalists. i think they have a different gene that makes them curious and inquisitive in a very special way. to me they feel like they have blank canvases ready at all times and are painting while they are listening while most people’s canvases are already completely painted on and dry.

so i was practicing not looking at the tarot card through my eyes the whole time, but trying to see it through everyone else’s eyes as they talked about it. am i on to something here?

when we left the study group i was commenting on my friend’s great questions and she said…yeah sometimes i don’t even believe what i am saying, i just keep asking to see what they’ll say. i shreeked…i know you do….it’s so awesome (that might not be EXACTLY what she said because i just realized i’m not sure EXACTLY what she said.i mustn’t have been fully listening…see??…sorry !)

can you cultivate this gene? i’m in awe.

 

howdy folks

so here’s the spot where i can put my  beyond measure, countless, gigantic, hidden, huge, immense, incalculable, indescribable, inexpressible, innumerable, innumerous, mammoth, manifold, many, measureless, mighty, monstrous, multiple, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, private, prodigious, staggering, suppressed, titanic, uncountable, uncounted, undreamed of, unexpressed, unimaginable, unknown, unnumberable, unnumbered, unspeakable, unthinkable, vast thoughts…..for example…i REALLY dig the thesaurus.

so i will be writing random personal thoughts, questions, concerns and ideas and would love to hear yours. i think it’s how we learn about others and most importantly… ourselves.

hope to see you often

t