You Tube and My Space videos.

Readers of my sites know that I have quite a large number of my videos posted onto my sites.Most people know that you can embed You Tube videos onto your site,also you can upload a video, although this takes a long time. So the easiest way is to embed,and it is not only You Tube videos that can be embedded or posted to your blog. I also have a lot of my My Space videos on my sites. I have two video channels,one on You Tube and the other on My Space. There is one restriction with You Tube videos, in that you can not record or upload videos longer than ten minutes. But My Space allows up to twenty minutes recording time and some of my videos are longer than ten minutes,therefore I cannot show them on You Tube.So I have posted many of my My Space videos here on Blogger and also my other sites at Windows Live Spaces. A lot of my You Tube videos were recorded on my, My Space video channel and uploaded to You Tube,as the Internet connection is better on My Space.What I mean is that when I have recorded on You Tube,some of my videos have been cut off before the end. That is not all of the video has been uploaded,for example some videos although in the preview,the whole recording came out. When I published it,not all of the video,was published,it was cut off before it was finished.It is a problem that a lot of people are having or so I have read in the You Tube help guide,where the Internet connection is slow. Therefore not all of the video is uploaded completely which seems to be the problem I have had. But with My Space, the connection seems better so all of my videos upload and so most of my You Tube videos are uploaded from my My Space site. But even if you choose to upload from another site that you have to or from your mobile phone,You Tube will still not accept anything longer than ten minutes.So for anybody who wants to make longer videos,My Space is a good option and you can post or embed your videos onto any web site or blog that you have.Also I don' have my own computer,I blog from an Internet cafe,although this does not make any difference if the computers are running well. But also people who have their own computers have problems if you live in an area where the Internet connection is not very good and this is a problem here in Lebanon.Where there are power cuts and telecommunications are down a lot and so this effects the Internet here. So how to embed a video-well,first go to the video you want to embed then,with your mouse or keyboard, COPY. Click your mouse over the embed code shown,then press ctrl and C both at the same time,then press C again.Then go to your site, with Blogger you click on "edit html"in the post editor,then click the right hand side of the mouse and select "paste"then using the left hand side of mouse click onto the page.The embed code should appear,then click preview and the video should appear,if it does not,then you have not done everything correctly. Once video appears you can click publish and that's it. Different blogging services have different ways of embedding a video into your post,with Windows Live,my other site,I just click embed video and click done and the video appears,I do not have to set my text to html.But I am just giving you an example with here on Blogger,but check with your site instructions if using another blogging service,as some let you just post the video on without having to embed,others only allow you to upload from a video file. But others do not let you add videos at all,so each service is different. Also if you have a You Tube account,You Tube has a setting that allows you to just post a video to your blog without having to embed.This is useful for people who have difficulty mastering the computer and don't know how to embed,or have restrictions on their computer as then you can just post to your site easy. You Tube is the best site to make your own videos as it is the most famous but My Space is also a good choice. I have an account on My Space and it is both a blog and video channel,which has both my You Tube and My Space videos plus my own blog posts.Links- http://www.youtube.com/andrea22borman and http://www.myspace.com/hezbollahandrea.

Adding files.

Here on Blogger uploading files is disabled,both for sites published on blog spot and also for custom domain blogs. But there is another way to show your own files. If you have files on Google documents,you can quite easily publish them on your blog,by either posting by email or by clicking post to blog. Which is a setting on Google docs.I myself do not embed my files,I just post them to my blog by email or publish them by using the publish setting on docs. This makes the document look like a web page. This also is more attractive to readers,as most people who visit a site prefer to read web pages,rather than look at files. Which can be quite bland in appearance also you can upload a photo on your page,which also looks good with the document.One example is a document I have published here on this site,in which I have uploaded a photo at the top of the post. Also I have added the web link in which you can view my document in it's original form. You can also add a web link that people can click on to view your file in it's original P.D.F for if you have uploaded it on the web.I also have published my Google docs. this way on my other websites.See example at http://www.hezbollahandrea7.net/2009/10/windows-live-profiles_21.html and at http://www.hezbollahandrea2.biz/2009/09/hezbollah-now-2009.html.

Windows Live Profiles-Google docs.

Link-http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcdr6g8p_6vjtt59gz -

I have decided to put my Windows Live profiles public published on the web.For those of you who don't know,different email services offer additional perks.For example here on Google if you have email with them,you can create a website on google sites or go on blogger to create a blog and these services are all free including this one,Google Notebook.I have several email accounts with Hotmail,and I and anyone else who uses this service can have a profile on Windows Live.And in addition to this you can create your own free website or blog on Spaces,which is part of Windows Live and run by MSN website and search engine. There is one problem with putting your profile and putting blog posts and photos on Windows Live,that is the URl,(web address) they give you is very long and has many letters and numbers and many web browsers dont pick the address up,and send a redirect notice.This is a problem for readers who want to view the web pages and posts you have worked hard and created.So,to get round this problem,I have created my own web address,which if you have a Windows Live profile you can do,by going on Spaces,which works with Windows Live.You do this by choosing your own web address,for example I have chosen http://www.haprofile.spaces.live.com/ for my first site,HEZBOLLAH AND ANDREA PROFILE and http://www.haprofile2.spaces.live.com/ for my second site,HEZBOLLAH AND ANDREA PROFILE 2, But the disadvantage with Spaces is that once you choose your web address,you cannot change it,unless you delete your blog! And also you can not upload images or photos direct by URL as I do on my blogger sites,Spaces have a way this can be done but it is quite complicated.So I choose to post images onto my Spaces blogs by email,which works for me.Once you create your Spaces blog,your blog is displayed on the web with a link to your profile page as well,or you have the option of making either your blog,profile or both private so only you can read and not others.Or you can choose to just share it with people of your choice,friends or relatives perhaps,which means people you choose to read your blog,will have to log in with their email address and password before they can read.But my profile and blogs are public for all on the web to read.For this reason I thought it only right that the web address should be easy to access,hense, the 2 web addresses listed above. All my Google Notebooks are also public but unfortunately they too have a long and complicated URL.So to get round this problem I publish some of my notebooks on my websites,including my Spaces blogs. This also gives one the opportunity to make them a more interesting post by adding photos perhaps or additional pages. My 2 new blogs were created and published on 30th January 2009.So they are only one week old.But they are not just profile pages,Hezbollah And Andrea Profile,has blog posts about Lebanon and Hezbollah and other topics on the Middle East.My other site,Hezbollah And Andrea Profile 2, also has blog posts on the same topics,and also it has links to all my other websites and also the full rss feeds to my sites are displayed here as well. So although the title of the sites may be misleading to readers in that it gives the impression that the pages are only about my profile,they are NOT only that,they have blog posts and articles written by me in their own right.Also I have posted some articles from my website Hezbollah Milita http://www.hezbollahandandrea2.net on my new sites as well and there are links to my sites also.My other Spaces blog,Hezbollah And Andrea Posts, http://www.hezbollahandrea.spaces.live.com/ is a blog in its own right.It has its own media type articles on the Middle East and stories as well,just like my other websites.Now that I have made Windows Live pages into web pages,I am able to write more detailed posts than what I can on the profile page of Windows Live alone.My profile pages are more about my work on the web,creating and publishing my websites,rather than about me personally.But now that I have published these new sites online,already they are starting to be indexed by the search engines and Google.This is due to the hard work I have done of adding my sites to search engines,I use the search engine submission services,that add my site to search engines.See article,Search Engine Submission,I wrote on Hezbollah And Andrea Profile 2. I am also able to make my Spaces blogs very colorful,thanks to the web tools that windows live offer,such as changing the page colors and adding color themes as well,such as flowers or art work! The two new sites can be reached at the web addresses on my web page. So happy reading! The above is an example of one of my Google documents,that has been made into a web page and I have also added a photo.

You Tube video-about web hosting.

Here is a video which I found on You Tube,by a lady called Lisa,who is a teacher of computer skills and runs several websites on web hosting. I have added this to my favorites on my You Tube channel. This video will explain the tips and tricks on web hosting better than I can, to watch video go to http://www.hezbollahandrea7.net/2009/10/you-tube-video.html.

You Tube video-web hosting.

Custom Domain.

Readers of my sites now know that I have recently started to host all of my Blogger blogs on my own custom domain.In this post I am going to share with you my useful tips in case other readers would like to create or host their own blog or website.I am speaking from my own experience,I myself am no expert webmaster,well most people who blog are not. But you don't have to be expert at computer or the Internet to create and host a site.There are many blogging companies out there to choose from as your host,but I think Blogger is the best and easiest one to use and get along with,Why? Well Blogger is quite flexible in that it lets you present your site in the way you want to. For example I have tried Wordpress and I have found that if I wanted to change my page color or embed videos,I would have to upgrade,that is pay for this.Which I think is quite mean,as you should not have to pay to choose your page color or embed your own videos. Also Wordpress is quite complicated and difficult to use,unless you have a lot of experience of the Internet and computer skills. A lot of people use Wordpress and say it has more advanced facilities,than Blogger and other companies,although I don't think this is true.I think you can do a lot with Blogger to make your site look professional and there is a lot of choice of templates and page design to choose from. And of course once you have chosen a template,you can change the page color yourself to one of your choice and also the text color as I have done.For me Blogger is best and also it is the easiest way to have a site,also the settings are really easy to use. There are three post editors,you can choose from in settings,but I choose the old editor,as this has a spellings check facility. Which is useful for me as my spelling is not all that great.Also with Blogger you don't have to have a blogspot address,if you don't want to, you can have your own address.Which is a custom domain,which means that although you have your own web address owned by you,Blogger will still host your blog for you. I have chosen to do this and I think this is the best option for anybody wanting their own domain,as Blogger sets everything up for you,including transfer of files and mapping and gets rid of the complicated bits. With a lot of other companies,you have to set everything up yourself and do your own mapping,which I could not do. Also a lot of companies charge extra for hosting,Blogger does not. On Wordpress for example,you have to set everything yourself and map your domain to Wordpress,which is difficult.There are other companies who will let you create a site and buy a domain through them and host it for you,but most are quite expensive. So here is the best way to have your own site AND your own domain. First create a blog with Blogger and choose a blogspot address. After this when your blog is created go to settings and select custom domain. Then choose the address you want to have and follow the instructions on the form and that's it! Don't forget you also get your own free Google apps. account with your own email address,which is the same as your domain as well. Also the yearly charge for a domain is only $10 U.S dollars,which is £7.50 English pounds,which is very cheap and you still get the same great facilities that Blogger provides to make your site look good.Also if you decide that you no longer want to be on custom domain,you can change back to your old blogspot address by using the settings on your blog. So I would advise anybody to take this route,as it is easy and avoids the hassle for anybody who is unfamiliar with the more advanced Internet skills.

About this site.

This site is about my own experiences of hosting my sites on the web,and it also has useful tips on web hosting,presentation and other things.As well as more of my own blog posts and videos.