Posted by
ChrisR on Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:01:37 PM
Originally posted May 1, 2007.
How do you embed PowerPoint presentations? For that matter, how do you post a jpeg or other picture? Or a YouTube screen rather than a link?
Step 1: Decide what you want to embed. If it's a JPG, you are going to want to upload it to PhotoBucket, Flickr, or other photo hosting site, and then link to it from your Townhall.com blog. If you want to display a PowerPoint, you can go to SlideShare.net and upload a regular MS PowerPoint file. I'll let you all figure out that part on your own.
Step 2: Start your new Townhall.com blog post by going to your "Create New Post" tab. You might want to have your YouTube or SlideShare open on a separate browser tab or window.
Step 3: Copy the embed code found on the YouTube or SlideShare website. Alternatively, if you want to show a picture, locate the image location. You can usually do this by right-clicking on the image and selection "Properties" to find the image URL.
In YouTube, it will look like this:
Step 4: Paste the image, video, or presentation code into your new blog post. You do this by selecting the "Paste Plain Text" icon on your Townhall blog controls. The icon is circled in red on the image below. You will want to paste your code into that window and hit "ok." That's it!
For an image, you will need the following HTML code:
<img src=http://imagehost.com/yourimagefilenameurlhere.jpg>
Replace the image location within the quotes with the URL location for your picture.
Step 4: Publish!