RapidWeaver FAQ - YouTube
Can someone please tell me how to post a YouTube video to my RapidWeaver blog? Can I post a YouTube video to any other RapidWeaver page besides blog pages? Can I have multiple YouTube videos playing in the same area?
CHAPTER 1: Adding YouTube videos
1.1 How to add the videos
1.2 Example
CHAPTER 2: Adding multiple YouTube videos playing in the same area
2.1 How to build the menu
2.2 How to build the area where the videos will display
2.3 Example
CHAPTER 1: Adding YouTube videos
You can post YouTube videos on all pages, not only blogs
1.1 How to add the videos
1. Let's say you want to add the following video to your RapidWeaver webpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuoTuL1we_c
2. Copy the "Embed" you find on the right of the video you chose. For the video I chose it is:
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
3. Go to RapidWeaver and the page you want to post the video to (any page you want)
4. Paste the code you copied from the YouTube site (the whole code you find under Embed)
where you want it to display
5. Once you added the code to RapidWeaver select it all and go to “< >” (Apply HTML markup) and choose “Code”.
6. Done, you will see the video appearing in Preview
1.2 Example
Here’s how it will look on your page (Katie Melua - Spider ‘s web)
CHAPTER 2: Adding multiple YouTube videos playing in the same area
This is done out of two parts:
- The first part is the menu where people can choose which video they would like to look at
- The second part is where the video will display
2.1 How to build the menu<a href="Here goes the url of the video" target="Showframe" class="class1">Here the title of the video</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/D1R-jKKp3NA&rel=1" target="Showframe" class="class1">Steve Jobs</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1" target="Showframe" class="class1">Katie Melua</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nxpEqln5EdQ&rel=1" target="Showframe" class="class1">"George Bush"</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9NaMGL0B50c&rel=1" target="Showframe" class="class1">Almost Famous</a>
Notice the url of the video: http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1
Where can you get that from? This is the code You Tube provides you to embed the video:<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuoTuL1we_c&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
in there you see the links. Just copy and paste the link into the menu. Also type a title of the video.
Once you added the code to RapidWeaver select it all and go to “< >” (Apply HTML markup) and choose “Code”.
2.2 How to build the area where the videos will display<iframe name="Showframe" src="url of the video first loading" style="width:345px; height:290px;" class="class1"></iframe>
Change the link in it to the link of the video you want to display when the page loads.
Note that the video is taking its size from the sizes of the iFrame, so changing the width and/or height parameters of it will change the size of the video displaying.
Once you added the code to RapidWeaver select it all and go to “< >” (Apply HTML markup) and choose “Code”.
2.3 Example
Here’s how it will look on your page.
Choose a video:
Steve Jobs
Katie Melua
"George Bush"
Almost Famous
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