Technology is constantly changing. It can be frustrating at times and also amazing! The connections that can be made are often life changing. However, it can feel like you need to be a GEEK in order to use it. I don't think it should be that way. Come here for help if you are not a geek!
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On Flickr, YouTube and many other sites you get the choice to use "embed code" in order to put any media (picture, video or audio) on Facebook or another website. Here are the steps for using the embed code:
Go to the site that has the picture or video you want to use. To find the embed code choose SHARE. You will be given a choice to post to various places or get the link to copy and an embed code (on Flickr it was called HTML or BBedit code). Copy the embed code.
Go back to the page you want the media to be on. To go back to the place that you want the picture to show up, choose EDIT HTML or whatever you need to do in order to edit the code. You can guess where you think the picture should go by looking at the code on the page. It includes the words that are on the page, so if you do a search (CTRL-F or F3 on a Mac) for those words you can paste the code directly into the HTML. Here is an example: (I searched for the words "Here is an Example:)
When I pasted the code into the HTML on my blog this is what actually showed up!
Now you can save, publish or preview to see that the picture or video that you wanted to show is now on your webpage.
The reason to use embed code is that the picture STAYS on the site where it was originally and you just put in a pointer to that place. When someone looks at your page the computer automatically gets the picture or video from the other place and puts it on your page.
Flash is a program that is sort of an add on to other programs that allows them to do many things. Flash is one of the reasons that the Internet has become so interactive. Flash is a program that is NOT included on the iPad or iPhone and so there are many things that will not work and often you will go to a website and get this error message:
Like me, you may have tried to click on the button that says "Download Free Flash Player" and found that it will not work either. Right now the only thing you can do is to give up and look at the page on a computer if you really need it.
The code that makes the website work is called HTML. Soon a new version of HTML will be used by everyone called HTML 5. It is not the standard yet, so all web sites are not using it. Flash was the way that web designers made their pages more interactive. When HTML 5 is the standard iPads and iPhones will be able to see everything that you see on your computer. I have noticed that more and more sites are already using HTML 5 or doing something else so that their whole site works on the iPhone and iPad.
BONUS INFORMATION! (not necessary, but interesting... at least to me)
I also have problems when I try to use You Tube. In this blog, using my laptop I can embed video by going to You Tube, finding a video that I want, clicking on share and then copying the "EMBED" code and putting it onto my blog. Here is an example of embed code and how it works: The code looks like this:
I copy it, go to the tab on my blog that says "EDIT HTML" and paste it in where I want it. The video looks like this:
On my iPhone or iPad if I try to do the same thing I do not get a choice to use embed code. Here is what I see:
So, this summer when I was writing my trip blog "http://world-everyday.blogspot.com" I could't only bring my iPad, but needed to find a friend with a computer so that I could embed the video.
Go to the site that has the picture or video you want to use. To find the embed code choose SHARE. You will be given a choice to post to various places or get the link to copy and an embed code (on Flickr it was called HTML or BBedit code). Copy the embed code.
