How do I embed a Video in my MyRealPage Blog

It's very easy to embed a Video into your Blog with MyRealPage. First, of course, you need to create a video. Use your favourite camera or camcorder. Once you have the video for the blog, choose one of the many video hosting providers out there. Here are a few you may want to check out:

• http://youtube.com
• http://vimeo.com
• http://viddler.com
• http://video.aol.com
• http://metacafe.com

These websites also offer extensive help resources about how to copy video to your computer and then upload it, etc. 

For example, here is a help link from youtube:

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10521

Once you have uploaded your video (in many cases, you may need to sign up with the service), then follow these simple steps. The example below uses youtube.com as the video hosting provider, but the procedure will be very similar with all the others:

• First, locate your video and locate the "embed" code:

• Next, in your Blog Entry screen, follow these 2 steps:
  

• And, voila! your video is now part of your blog:
  

Hope this helped! 

Remember that you can use the same technique to embed a video anywhere on your website. You can also use "Markup Weblet" under "Advanced" section in your weblet list to easily copy and paste the "embed" code. Also, many of these video providers allow you to customize the code to set a different video size, borders, etc. 

Experiment!

Welcome to MyRealPage Cookbook Series

Hello, my name is Bill Skrypnyk. I am the Technical Director at myRealPage.com and I have decided to start a "Cookbook" series of "HOW-TO" articles for MyRealPage Websites and Listing solutions for Real Estate.

MyRealPage has developed a very extensive and impressive line of products to service the Real Estate industry, agents and brokers alike. Our websites have been conceived not only as a platform to publish content, but also as valuable tools for web visitors. Our tightly integrated Listing solution allows web visitors to our clients' websites to search Real Estate listings through a variety of interactive, highly usable forms, as well as organize their findings through saved searches and favorites; be notified of market changes in the listings they are looking for, etc. Our Website product automatically provides an opportunity for web visitors to become a member of our clients' websites which, in our opinion, is indispensible in converting an anonymous web visitor to an identifiable "lead".

Our product offerings have grown vastly in the past few years as MyRealPage has invested considerable resources to make a product that is both competitively priced and highly flexible to address the great variety of our clients' needs.

As our products grew, we realized that we need to do a much better job educating our clients and those interested about the exciting and "cool" things you can do with MyRealPage websites and listings. I hope you will come back often to read my "Cookbook Recipies".