I'm one of those crazy, happy idiots who simply won't stop trying to do something until I've exhausted every possibility and worn myself out in the process. Sometimes it takes a very long time for me to figure out how, kind of like working a differential equation in days of old.
Take for instance, selecting a favorite YouTube video and putting it on my sidebar. Nothing in the gadgets department suited or allowed me to do it the way I wanted to do it. So I gave up for a while and then came back several more times to try something else. And failed again. Well tonight, I hit pay dirt! I got a video of my choice on my sidebar by going through the text gadget and found it works in HTML----sort of. I'm beside myself. Sure you can only see half the screen. But what does that matter if there's great music and you can see all you need to see on the left half!?
I'm going to have some fun with this during Christmas. Anyway if you'll scroll down on my sidebar on the right, you'll see a half YouTube screen. You can click on the little arrow and the video will start up the same as usual. Oh, joy! I have a new toy! A one-armed video.
God Bless America
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- Webutante
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- I'm a southern Christian conservative with a degree in civil & environmental engineering and a passion for the truth of God's Word, writing, hiking, investing, fly fishing, cooking and the great outdoors. My favorite tech invention = spellcheck. There are no such things as rights without responsibility, a free lunch, cheap grace, man-made climate change, successful government engineering, or figuring out when life begins. We're hurling towards the abyss with only One Life-Line: it's not botox, a "living" Constitution, celebrity president, or making nice with our dark enemies.. Meanwhile, God gave us His Word, His Son, Grace Upon Grace, family/friends and the greatest country in the world to live--if we can keep it .Comments are closed but you can email me at: webutante07 at gmail dot com. Thanks for coming by and be sure to view this in the 'web' version at the bottom.
Bumper Crop of Calves
Home on the Range
Going Home To Old Tennessee
Stewarding Timber Lands, Daylighting and Building Roads
Fall in Tennessee
Boys, Waterfall, Barrel of Monkeys. Fun
Jackson, Conservative Cat Patriot
AT in VA
My Favorite Hometown Buddies
Leaves Everywhere
Journeys To Significance---On the Life of Paul
Click Pic
The Philantropists: William Wilberforce
@ Tim Challies
Grace Sunday
G-Boy and Girly-G Baptized In Manhattan---God Bless Them and Their Parents!
Above Jackson Hole
On the Thames
Girly-G Looks For the Queeny-B!
At the AT Headquarters
At Harper's Ferry WV (click pic)
In A Central Park State of Mind
Visit to Scotland
G-Boy Tractors Around Scotland With His Late Great-Grandpapa, Fred
Proving Friendship Can---At Least for Moments---Transcend Politics and Culture Differences (Liberals on the Right, Sole Conservative On Left)
On the Slopes
Floating the Snake With Family
Hiking to Phelps Lake
2 comments:
In the embed code there are two statements that say:
object width="480" height="295"
Change BOTH of them to read
object width="320" height="264"
And you will see more of the video. If your sidebar is less than 320 pixels wide, you'll have to fuss with it -- keeping both width and height values in proportion to make it fit.
There are tutorial videos somewhere on youtube that show you how to do this.
This article has it in detail.
http://www.gadgetizer.com/2006/10/20/heres-how-to-resize-youtube-videos-to-fit-your-blog-layout/
Oh. Oh. I see. Thank you, thank you, Gerard.
Will get back to tweaking and fussing this afternoon when I have a minute free and have time to get frustrated. Can't wait to see what happens.
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