Hey everyone! Here's a quick walkthrough on how to get your pictures and video embedded in your post. It's really simple, but it requires a little bit of knowledge before you get it to work right.
YouTubeVideoUsing Youtube is really simple, and I don't know of any other services we musicians use for posting our video. We have a way to enable you to post video and make it a part of your post here at Madbean! First off, you have to have a YouTube account and have posted a video. You can also post other peoples videos, but we recommend you take some care not to infringe on anyone else if you do so.
First, go pull up the video page and ensure that it plays (even for a second or two). Then, highlight and copy the webpage address. It should look something like this: h t t p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3HHuEf6pQ
Next, while you're making a post you should see a little box up at the top left side, specifically located just under the B button for making text bold. Here's what you should see.
See that little question mark box? that's what you're looking for. When you press that button, you should get something that looks like this:
[ youtube ](spaces added)[ /youtube ]
The key to embedding your video is getting your webpage address inbetween the ] and [ of that. I will purposely add a space in this so it doesn't work, but this is what it should look like (minus the added spaces):
[ youtube ]
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Hq3HHuEf6pQ [ /youtube ]
If you did it right, the video will embed like this:
Take advantage of the "preview" button when posting to check your post to see if it's working. If it what you've done isn't working then you might need to figure out where your mistake is, and this helps you do so very easily.
imagesPosting pictures is something we do all the time around here. However, there's two ways to do so, and because of the higher volume of traffic we're seeing here we don't recommend you upload your images right onto the website. You would normally do this by clicking the "additional options" drop down menu, then choosing your files to upload. This gets your photos up, but the large files begin to add up on the server and they may get deleted down the road.
A better way is to use a webbased picture hosting service. There are many, many options out there. Some that I know of include picasa, photobucket, and imageshack. I use imageshack because it was recommended to me years ago when I started building and wanted to share my photos on DIYstompboxes.
In any case, each hosting service has it's own method for embedding your photos on a website without causing memory to be used on the Madbean server. Because I'm familiar with imageshack, I'll use them as my example. You can choose a different service but you'll need to research your own posting method. If you have no service, try imageshack and then decide if you want to try other places.
First off, you can find imageshack at
http://www.imageshack.us. Next up, you'll have to create an account and then upload your photos. Imageshack has some help for you if you've never done this before. Alternatively, and very helpful for me, imageshack also has an iOS app, so you can snap a picture with your iPhone or iPad and then upload the picture straight to your account without having to grab the photo off your phone and then uploading from your computer.
Ok, so if you have a photo uploaded and you want to get it on the website, it's very simple. Get your picture up on imageshack, and if you need to know what that looks like, go here:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/imagetpl.jpg/Next, open the little menu on the right side called "embed this image". It should look like this:
What you need to do is highlight and copy the text in the FORUM box. Just click that box and all the text should highlight, and if not, select all and then copy the text. When you post it in the forum it should look like this (again, I've added a space to screw it up so that you can see what it looks like):
Uploaded with
ImageShack.usNotice that there's a bit of text that will link to the Imageshack site? I almost always delete that part, but you can leave it if you don't mind it.
So that's how it's done! Now, as long as your photos stay uploaded to your account, they will appear in the forum threads you embed them into. We recommend you use whatever service makes sense for you.
There is also a method for embedding soundclips using services like Soundcloud. I'm not experienced with those as of yet, but I may look into them another day and add that to this sticky. Thanks for reading.
Jacob
