If you have a blog or website that you can manage yourself, like a Joomla website for example, a great way to communicate and entertain your visitors is by adding video content. 

It is easy to do, effective and does not use large amounts of your own bandwidth by serving your own video, as it is an embedded movie that is streamed directly from YouTube/Google Video/iFilm etc themselves.

This means that, if you have made your own video that you want on your site, it is much better to upload it to YouTube and just embed it in your page. Setting up a streaming server that can achieve this sort of performance could cost thousands, and here it is for you to use for free. It's so cool.

Ok, so let's get started. First you need to find a video that you would like to include in your web page...

When you have selected a video, look over to the top right in the section entitled 'About This Video' and you will see a line of code in a box called Embed...

All we have to do now is copy this code by selecting it all (make sure you get everything), you can do this by right-clicking or by holding down the 'crtl' key and pressing 'c'.

Next, you need to log into your website and navigate to the content item you would like to embed the video in. 

What I usually do at this point is click into the text area and press Return/Enter, which, depending on which text editor you have got, will create a new line (and an empty paragraph tag).

The code that you have now is not text it is HTML, that is the backend code that drives your web pages. So in order to embed this we need to access this code. In most of the Joomla editors you can do this by looking for this button...

When you click on it, it will open the HTML source editor window, and you will then be able to see the code that makes up your content. If you scroll down the code to where you put the empty Return you will see a bit of code like this:

All you then have to do is highlight the the code between the two <p> tags and paste your YouTube code over the top, click update and save your item. This way can also position the movie in your content using the left, center and right justification in your text editor bar.

And that's it. See, I told you it was easy, now go forth and embed...