Hey gays/gals I’ve been looking at this old blog that I have up for sometime now. I’ve not played around here in a long time. I don’t get to all the toys that I wanted to. I will try to add new stuff each week for now on. I’m putting it on my to do list. So, more to come…

Hey I just wanted to show what we have done. Below is a flow chart to show what plug-in we have adding to our blogs. Yes, there are more plug-in coming. For some of the plug-in you will want to have some content on your site before installing the plug-in. If you have any questions or comments feel free to email.

If you are using Ping.fm, you are miss out on a cool tool. This site will allow you to make one message and ping it to all your Web 2.0 site like: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and 20+ more sites. That is cool by itself. But now we are going to add this plug-in PingPressFM so when we blog, it will ping to all the site we have set up at Ping.fm. This will save you a lot of time and make it easier to update your listing for all the different site you are play with.

1. Sign-up at: http://ping.fm
2. Downlaod the plug-in: PingPressFM
3. Unzip it and FTP to your host.
4. Active it and get your key.
5. Set up trigger.
6. Post message.

Watch the video to get a clear picture of how to do this..

This is just a test to see if the new plug-in is working. Have a great day.

We all know what a post-note is, and stick them all over the place. In more forums you can sticky a thread so that it is always on the top of the listing. With this plug-in WP-Sticky you can do the same thing. I wanted my intro video to always be on the first page and at the top of my blog. This way anyone that comes to my site will know what its about and my plans for it. Watch the video and let me know what you think…

Here is the link for the WP-Sticky Plug-In:

http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-sticky.html

We all know that keeping notes is a good idea for any big task. Blogging is no different, in fact it will make you life a lot easier. If you want to change you theme you will have a good idea of what step you will need to do to keep your blog running.

Now have the copy in our header and it’s time to make an image of the YouTube video what we normal embed into our blog or website. I use Snagit to copy the image and save it. Now upload it to your host and you are now ready to make the code change in your listing.

Here is the basic copy we are going to use:

<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sPlYqb33kyY” class=”lightwindow page-options” params=”lightwindow_width=425,lightwindow_height=340,lightwindow_loading_animation=false” title=”mcbigboy’s SEO Intro” ><img border=”0″ src=”http://mcbigboy.com/images/lightbox_v2.jpg” width=”300″ height=”275″></a>

In fact you can use this code and just modify it. Go go YouTube and copy the URl for the video you want to add to your blog. It will look something like this:

Now we need to fix by removing the “watch?” and replacing the”=” with a “/”. So it should look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/sPlYqb33kyY

Now you can replace the text in the first set of code and add it to your blog and you will have done it. Watch the video will help to see how I did it.

Please leave some comments and let me know how this trick was. The more feed back I can get the better I can make this blog and videos.

Thanks

mcbigboy

Now what we have our code on the servicer, we need to add some code to the header. Now you will need to know what theme you using. If you change your theme you will need to make these changes again. Look in the folder for your current theme and find the “header.php” file. Now copy the file to you computer and open with a text editor. You can follow along the video if you wish.

You are going to look for the “</head>” statement in the code. Now look above it and will need to add this copy:

<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/lightwindow.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightwindow.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

to your file. Now if you did as I did, then you will need to add “/the folder name/” to each of the lines above. I just copied the whole folder lightwindow to my root folder under my domain. So I needed to add “/lightwindow/” to each of the “scr” statements. Like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/lightwindow/javascript/prototype.js"></script>

Now save your header.php file and copy it back to your host.

In the next video will modify our post to use the new code!

As I as posting my first video, it came to me that I’m going to have lots of videos on one page from time to time. I don’t want people to be able to view more then one video at a time. After doing some research, I found there is code that will allow us to put images and video into a small pop-up window. This first video in 3 in series to show you have to add this code to your blog or web site.

Here is the link to the site where I got the code for the light box:

http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/

You can download the code there and see how to install and use it. Follow along the videos to see how I used it in my blog. You can see that I used the trick here for this video too.