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| Anthony Kilhoffer |
 is the Chief Programmer and Co-Creator of Preppermint and is also the most likely among us to become an assassin. After serving in the Air Force and the Army's 82nd Airborne, Anthony grew tired of being able to kill people 67 ways with his bare hands. He and Chris came up with this idea to revolutionize web publishing, and he is the only one of the two smart enough to write it. Anthony spends most of his day fielding high paying job offers for his .NET programming skills. |
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 is an Editor at Preppermint and the brand new mother of a brand new baby Drew. Vegas started off as a stand-up comic in New York City, wowing crowds and performing on HBO. Sick of standing, she took a swing at sitting in front of a radio mic and began instantly blowing up ratings. In her last gig, she more than doubled the ratings - from a 9.5 to a 21.0 Males 25-49 in her first book! She is also on the verge of achieving her dream of becoming a Roller Derby Girl.
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If you can post HTML, embedding a YouTube video is remarkably simple. They give you the code to do so on every video page! One of my favorite YouTube videos is of a kid who cannot play a musical instrument, so he edited together video and audio of him playing one note at a time to create a music video. The URL for the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo . You'll notice to the right of every video is the word "embed" and a text field. This is the code you need to copy to your webpage to embed this video. In this case, the code is: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> While this might just look like a jumble of code if you are not familiar to HTML, it isn't as complex as you might think. Like all HTML - there is an opening tag"<object>" (indicating where something starts) and a closing tag "</object>" (Indicating where something ends). The first thing to look at is the width and height. That's pretty self explanatory - it is the size of the video in pixels - you can make it bigger or smaller if you want (but it won't change the resolution - it will just make it bigger and blurrier). Next up is the first parameter - <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo"> - which you'll notice is almost the same as the URL (or link) to the video on YouTube itself. If you go to the URL in the param itself - http://www.youtube.com/v/JzqumbhfxRo - you'll see that it is the video, minus the comments, advertisements and links to other videos. This is just the video that will appear on your page itself - blown up to the full size of your browser. Finally, you will see the "<embed>" tag. <embed> is the old way to put Flash on a page. If someone is using an older browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer 5.5 and below and partially 6), they won't display the video without <embed>. (This is only partially the truth - look here for more detail.) It repeats the width and height and URL of the video, so if you change it in the <param> tag, just remember to change it in the <embed> section as well. So, after all this geekery - you'll get this:
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