How to get addthis button for your blog or website?

Our blog would be looking much better,if our posts are able to share and bookmark.For this,i would suggest addthis.com.

To get this button,just go to addthis.com,and the webpage would be looking like the above image.
1. Select your service whether its a website,blogger,wordpress,typepad...or...
2. Select a button style.
3. If you want analytics,then select yes.
4. Click Get Your Button.

If you need to create with more options, then click more options as you see in the below image,

Then your webpage will be looking like this,

Here you can see more options.

You can see options for bookmark,sharing buttons and rss feed buttons.

Select what you want and get the code,if you need to track your performance then free sign-in required,otherwise simply get the code.

Here you can see how bookmark and sharing button is working in my blog ammupappa.You need to keep your code just below the post.

Here you can see the Subscribe RSS feed button,

If you are still having doubts in getting addthis button,Addthis.com provides very good help in their website,just click here addthis.com help.

Where to get 'you might also like' link for your blog?

You can see some blogs with You might also like link at the bottom of each post of the blog. Its very easy to set in your blog. you can see how it looks cute in my blog itself.Just for a glance,See below this post.
I used 'you might alos like' link from a website linkwithin.com.
Or you can see the image which i copied from one of my other blogs Ammupappa.

For this blog,i selected 4 stories while creating the widget, so you can see 4 related links at the bottom of the post.
If you want to have 'you might also like' link in your blog (blogger,wordpress,Typepad..)go to linkwithin.com. you need to give a very little information such as your email id, your blog platform and then width(you need 3,4 or 5 links),then by clicking Get Widget,your code is ready to put in your blog.

Advantages of having YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE link in your blog:

1. It gives the link for related content.

2. So it makes your visitors to automatically visits other related posts in your blog.

3. This creates your visitors to stay long in your blog.

4. Increases your traffic.

5. No sign-up needed and very cute to look with ad-free.

Note: If  posts in your blog doesnt have an image or a video, only the links will be displayed.

Bidvertiser - Monetize your Blog or website

Bidvertiser is a good contextual ad option for your website or blog. Bidvertiser ads can be placed with google ads as long as we have to maintain a different look and feel.Their minimum payout is $10.

For more details, visit: www.bidvertiser.com

With the help of Bidvertiser,you can
Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser
Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser
Sell your ad space with BidVertiser
Show text-ads on your Website or Blog with BidVertiser.

They grouped all of the available ad sizes into 4 groups based on their size and shape:

• Banners
• Buttons
• Inline Ads and
• Skyscraper

For more details, visit: www.bidvertiser.com

Their payouts in Referral Program is also really very good.When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, thay will credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40.






For more details, visit: www.bidvertiser.com

Adbrite Ads - Monetize your blog or website

Adbrite is one of the best adsense alternatives. You can set your own ad rates or keep it as default.
They allow the publishers to put

• Text ads
• Banner ads
• Fullpage ads
• Inline ads
• Rich Media ads

Adbrite ads can be in your website even if you have google ads,but you have to maintain a different look and feel. The minimum payout is 20$.
The entry level bloggers or webmasters can opt adbrite.

For more details,visit:www.adbrite.com

Adsense other than Google Adsense - Clicksor - Monetize your Blog or website

Clicksor is one of the top small publisher Adsense competitors. Their payouts is upto 85% and very good income for the small bloggers.Their ads are truly context sensitive so your visitors are possible to click the ads of the same subject when they see your site.Their payouts are bi-monthly.It offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by inline text links or displaying targeted contextual ads on your websites or blogs.

For more details :www.clicksor.com

The type of advertisements to be shown on your Web site are at cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and cost per visit (CPV) earnings metrics. You can earn up to 60% revenue share. They highly recommend you to select all of the following ad types to maximize your earnings.It gives Premium publishers the best rates compared to any network. The ad formats will be Banner & Text Link                 The ads will be a Text banner, Graphic Banner or Contextual Link Ads on CPM and CPC metric. Inline Text Link                 Usually Contextual Links Ads have better click ratio. Pop-under                 This one really give high payout rate on CPV/CPM metric. Inter-Ad (Interstitial Ad)                 Extremely high payout rate on pay per view basis. Video Ad (beta)                 Dynamically insert a pre-roll video ad to any of your videos such as youtube,etc... MsgAd floating ad, similar to instant messenger alert/dialog box.

We can place only one clicksor ad per page as per their terms and conditions.
Lets make money from today itself,for more details :www.clicksor.com

Free Online Courses for HTML and PSP

You can find lot of websites which gives free online courses,but what they do? simply provides you the material with lot of examples. Can anyone find the online course which provides the material and gives you the homework? I'll tell about this site: WebTech University.

This website gives you free courses in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and Paint Shop Pro (PSP). By taking this courses,we can develop your websites very colorful with pictures. This university is not a recognised university,but to provide knowledge to all,they are conducting these free online courses.

Courses in Webtech University:

• Classes for Beginners
• Basic HTML
• PSP Versions 7, 8, 9, X and XI
• Intermediate Classes
• HTML Tables
• HTML Forms
• HTML Frames
• PSP Versions 7, 8, 9, X and XI
• Advanced Classes
• Advanced topics like META Tag,validation,etc
• Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Classes start 1st and 15th of every month.We have to register 72 hours (3days)before the course starts.After that during the course,they will provide the materials to your Email-ID which you provided at the time of registration.

Whatever be the course you have chosen in this site,you have to go through the material and do the examples,atlast they will give you a homework. You have to do this homework and send back to them through the email. They will check your work and if any errors they will tell you to rectify,else they will send the next module.Like this,they will send nearabout 5 modules for each course,but you should complete the course in 15days. After completing the course they will tell you to write an exam online according to your own time.Finally with respect to your scores,they will provide you a certificate or tell you to reappear for the course.

Advantages:

• Free online course
• Materials through email
• If any error in our code,teach us how to solve
• Simple and easy to learn
• No HTML knowledge,then we can take the basic course

For more details,visit : WebTech University

Where can we store large video files?

The Photobucket.com is the first most popular photo site in the U.S and also the eighth most popular Entertainment/Multimedia site in the world. By creating a free account in photobucket,you can upload 10,000s of image files and hours of video.

How to create an free account in photobucket:

• Go to www.photobucket.com.


• Click join now and enter your details.


• After getting registered,in your page you can see account options,by clicking that you can edit/update your account details


• If you wish to make your album private, then in account options you can see a heading Album Settings. In that you can set My Album is to private and assign a Guest Password. This would be useful if you need to share your photos/videos with your relatives and friends alone.

Sources to upload photos/videos in photobucket:

You can upload the photos/videos from

• your computer,
• web url,
• mobile phone,
• email and
• ask tool bar

Files format accepted by Photobucket:

The photos/video files should be in any one of these formats such as

• *.jpg,*.jpeg,*.bmp,*.png,*.gif


• *.swf


• *.3g2,*.3gp,*.3gp2,*.3gpp,*.3p


• *.asf,*.avi


• *.divx,*.dv,*.dvx


• *.flv


• *.moov,*.mov


• *.mp4,*.mpeg4,*.mpg4,*.mpe,*.mpeg,*.mpg


• *.qt


• *.wmv


• *.xvid


• *.rm

How to upload the files:

The size of the each video file should be less than or equal to 100MB,image file should be less than or equal to 1MB and storage space for free account user is 1GB.
In my albums area,you have to select albums and upload,there you can see like below:



You have to select from where you are going to upload,for eg:from computer,email,etc. and then click choose files. you can select multiples files by selecting Ctrl key of the computer.After selected the files,it will take time to upload as the sizes must be large.

Uses of photobucket:

• If you choose your album status as Private,then no one can view your album until you provide your guest password to them. More over,when they type your guest password and try to view, it will not tell them to create an account to view your album, by simply typing your url and guest password they can view your stuffs. This is the speciality of photobucket.


• More than 100 beautiful themes are available,by choosing them you can make your stuffs looking more beautiful with the background themes.


• You can create Group Albums by joining together with your friends,colleagues or relatives.


• A Scrapbook builder in photobucket allows you to build the scrapbook online by dragging-dropping method by using the pre-built designs and you can share it with others by online or by taking printout.


• With the use of Photo editor you can make your photos more attractive by using the frames,special effects and stickers available


• You can arrange your photos and videos by using the built-in organizer.


• A slideshow builder adds your photos more fun and you can share your funny slideshow stuffs in website,blogs or profile.


• Photobucket usually conducting a lot of contests,if you are residing in US then you can participate.

How can we use our stored stuffs in blog/website:

You uploaded the video file in photobucket,but how you link that video file to your website?
Your uploaded photos/videos in photobucket page will be looking like this:
http://xxxyyyzz.photobucket.com/albums/xyz/youruserid/.




By keeping the cursor in anyone of your files,it will give you html code,embed code ,img code and code to use in email,see the picture below for more detailed.(please click the image to view bigger).



So,for developing the website,related with video,we can easily create our website with not much program knowledge,just coping the embed code of our video file from photobucket,makes our work easy.

How to view Flash files in your website using JW FLV Player?

How to get the FLV Player?

With the help of youtube you can easily embed your code to view the videos in your website. But this post is for those who wish to view their videos using their own player in their website. JW Player plays the major role here and an important thing is that it is available in the internet for free of cost.
Then why are you waiting? Just go ahead. I'm providing you the website address,just click this: JW FLV Player. They will ask your E-mail address to provide the player. Simply type your email address and opt whether you need with viral plugin or without. What viral plugin will do? This question will arise in your mind. Dont worry i will explain further. If you are using the player with viral plugin,while playing the video,at the end it will provide the embed code for others to link your videos to their website like youtube,metacafe,etc. If you wish others to embed your video then you can opt viral plugin else simply omit the viral plugin.Then it will provide a direct download link which is a zip file. After extracting the Zip, the following files would be there:

• player.swf


• preview.jpeg


• swfobject.js


• index.html


• video.flv


• yt.swf

How to view your video using your player?

The files you need to upload to your website is player.swf and the video file which you wish to view on your site.After uploading,the next thing is,you need to write a code. If you are familiar with writing the code then there is nothing to worry. But the person who has not enough programming knowledge, then whats the solution?

Go here :provide the details. The page would be looking like this:


After providing the necessary informations like which player you are using,where you uploaded your player and video file, you can preview your particular video and the necessary code will be available under the player with the heading as 'Copy your code'. Then what else you simply copy this html code in your page.

Want to write your own code to play the video?

Add the following HTML code in your page:


<embed src="http://www.mywebsite.com/player.swf" quality="high" width="450" height="367" name="VideoPlayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" FlashVars="file=http://www.mywebsite.com/myvideofile.flv&width=450&height=367&displaywidth=450&displayheight=367&overstretch=true&showfsbutton=false&linktarget=_blank&backcolor=0xFFFFFF" wmode="transparent" border="0" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>

Here you have to replace the www.mywebsite.com with your website address and the myvideofile.flv with your flv file name. Other parameters according to your wish you can change.

Other products of Longtail Video:

• WMV Player


• Desktop Player and


• Image Rotator