Ok, now you have your keywords and some emails accounts setup. The next step will be make a website or blog. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail here, there are 1000′s of site that will show you how to set one up. Just do some searches on Google.

Having your own site is the best, in fact you will not be able to add some of the plug-in we are going to use if don’t host your on site. I know a lot of you may be thinking that it’s hard to set a set or blog up. Not today, its very easy. Most hosting site today will have some type of HTML editor or template that you can use to make your site with.

I will add some links for good hosting and templates sites. I’m going to focuses on the blog more then the web site. You can use a blog as your main website or like I’ve done, you can have both. I will be using the blog to get traffic to my main web page. Today most of get great hosting sites will have tool that will install a WordPress Blog for you will just a click of the mouse.

In my next video, I will show you how to install your blog for those that don’t have the tools or just want to learn. Then will add in some plug-in to make our blogs SEO and help get them indexed.

Look word to seeing you next time…

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.