I would like to add video clips to my website, but I don't have enough space on my server to host it. Do you know of any other ways of doing it?
Yes, as a matter of fact, there's actually a very easy way of doing this: making use of free online video services, such as YouTube.
YouTube allows you to upload any video clip. It also allows you to embed a video clip hosted by them on your website or blog. So combining the two does exactly what you're looking for.
There is, therefore, two steps to this: 1) upload the clip to YouTube, and then 2) embed the video on your website/blog.
To upload a video clip to YouTube:
- Go to www.youtube.com.
- Register as a user.
- Login if you are not automatically logged in after registering as a user.
- On the top of the YouTube website, on the right-hand side there is a link that says "My Account". Click on
it.
- After the new page has loaded, click on the "Upload new video" button under the "Videos" section.
- You will now be asked to confirm your e-mail account. Type in the e-mail address you used to register for YouTube with and click on "Send Email".
- Now go check your e-mail. You should have received an e-mail from YouTube with a link in it — click on it.
- A new browser window will now appear with step-by-step instructions of how to upload your video.
- After your video has been uploaded, a confirmation page will be loaded. Don't close this page yet — go directly to the steps below.
To embed the video on your website/blog:
- On the confirmation of upload page, scroll down to the "Embed HTML" option.
- Below it you will find a field with HTML code in it.
- Copy all of this code and paste it into the place you want it to appear in your website/blog.
- When you now load your website, the video will appear in the area you
designated, while the video itself is being hosted on YouTube.