Ever have one of THOSE days? Well… I did today. Nothing seemed to have been done right… out of my hands… just a victim of getting others to do things for you and not following up. Who’s court is the ball in ultimately? Mine, of course.
Or, how about those days when you don’t see any sales, no optins, nothing working no matter how hard you try! I get that. Been there…
I have a friend who’s vlog will totally pick you up and set you on the straight road again. Energy and how to channel it is important. But that’s only one aspect of her vlog that I know you’ll enjoy…
Make your day!
So, I opened this free site last week called EasyBlogTricks.com, right? It’s all about the tech stuff when it comes to blog. Just simple stuff, like installing a blog on your own server, using plugins, changing your theme and stuff like that. Easy for me, but hard for people who aren’t experienced, and so…
Everything was working until I got an email from one of my site members saying that the video wouldn’t play. I’m like, “Sure it does. Just let it load.” Mea culpa. I didn’t check the site in Internet Explorer, a HUGE duh on my part, and something I never remember to do.
So, then, the trial became how do I do this so that the videos play in Internet Explorer, right?
Grr…
It is very difficult to find out how to do that online, and so I thought I’d give you the simple, down and dirty.
Down at the bottom of your HTML page for the video, there is a <–comment–> that says:
“<!– Users looking for simple object / embed tags can copy and paste the needed tags below.”
and it makes this block of code all comment because it ends with –>
So, I’m thinking, OK (and while we’re at it, let’s just say I’m a very good PHP guesser. I haven’t a clue how to write it. I understand what it says, and over time, I’m sure I’ll be clicking away writing code, too. Don’t know why, but I just think it’s a good skill to have.
Anyway, I copied this whole block of comment, and added it into the HTML Write window of WordPress, it didn’t work. So, I looked at the code, and realized that I needed to add the full path to my video, so it’s like this:
<div id=”media”>
<object id=”csSWF” classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”400″ height=”318″ codebase=”http://active.macromedia.com/flash7/cabs/ swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0″>
<param name=”src” value=”ping.mp4″/>
<param name=”bgcolor” value=”#1a1a1a”/>
<param name=”quality” value=”best”/>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always”/>
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/>
<param name=”scale” value=”showall”/>
<param name=”flashVars” value=”autostart=false”/>
<embed name=”csSWF” src=”ping.mp4″ width=”400″ height=”318″ bgcolor=”#1a1a1a” quality=”best” allowScriptAccess=”always” allowFullScreen=”true” scale=”showall” flashVars=”autostart=false&color=0×1A1A1A,0×1A1A1A” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”></embed>
</object>
</div>
But here’s what I did wrong…
All I needed to use was what’s inside the <embed></embed> tags, and center them. Then, put <div></div> tags around it, so make it look like this:
<div>
<center><embed name=”csSWF” src=”http://yourdomain.com/video/video.mp4” width=”400″ height=”318″ bgcolor=”#1a1a1a” quality=”best” allowScriptAccess=”always” allowFullScreen=”true” scale=”showall” flashVars=”autostart=false&color=0×1A1A1A,0×1A1A1A” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”></embed></center>
</div>
Notice the path to the video. Just tell the browser where the video lives, give it the URL.
And voila! It worked. I should have saved the page that, just in passing, mentioned that you only use the portion that says <embed>. Argh! I mean, it was obscure information. Why should it be so hard?
I’ll bet you that there are programmers having a good laugh.
But you know, being stupid about a subject is great! You get to learn every single day. I learn by doing, so the more I do, the more I take chances and mess around with this stuff, the more proficient I become. It’s great! Learning things is what really turns me on. Love to learn.
What’s that Nike used to say?
“Just do it!” 
