Title: READ: Embedding and Hosting
Course: Digital Photography

Embedding and Hosting

Sometimes, you have pictures that you took or made and you want to put on your blog. What if the application (for example, your blog) you want to put them on doesn't have an "Upload Photos Here" option? Then what?

Or - what if you really like a certain youtube video and you really want to put it on your blog so that you can talk about it?

Or - what if your blog/website/application gives a certain amount of upload space for free and you run out? Are you out of luck forever? The answer is NO!

Most applications that have a WYSIWYG editor also have a place where you can edit the HTML of the page. Don't know what HTML means? That's okay. It's just a place where you can further customize the website/blog entry using code. Here is what it looks like in blogger:

What you can do to solve each of the 3 problems listed above is:

Embed the wanted media into your blog from another place on the web.

Embedding is:
- locating a document, like a picture, mp3, or video, from a place on the web and then
- telling your website/blog entry (via html code) "Hey! Look over here! Put this video from youtube.com on MY website."

That file that you are looking for and wanting is hosted on another website (or server.) According to vitez-studios.com, "Every web page, email, file, or online service is stored ("hosted") on a computer (called a "server") that is connected to the Internet." Hosted just means "stored online."

Summary: Images/Videos/Music are uploaded to servers and are hosted on those servers. When you want those images/videos/music to appear on YOUR website, you embed them onto your site using HTML code.