lesson 4. easy web design for musicians

CVA Web cursus

Day 4

Customize your site and think about a social media strategy

Adding videos To quickly embed a YouTube video, simply copy the video’s URL from your web browser’s address bar

Paste it on a line by itself in your post/page editor (make sure that it is not hyperlinked): while viewing the video:

Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu

To customize the video’s size and settings, use a shortcode. You can do this by copying the video URL:

Then create a shortcode using the format below. Be sure to replace the URL listed here with the URL of your video, and the code is on a line by itself. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A] Video Customization Options You can specify the width and height of the embedded video by adding &w=... or &w=...&h=...to the shortcode. It will automatically adapt to your theme’s content length and give you preferred dimensions. You can disable related videos by appending &rel=0. For example, this shortcode: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A&w=640&h=385]

Copyright www.creativesocialmedia.eu

1. Add the url

2. Preview and save it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Cqxo8dR33JE

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqxo8dR33JE&w=250&h=250]

Customize your video with the [youtube] code

Preview it

And this is how it looks! You can center it, or aligne it to the left, right and add some text or other objects

Widgets

SEO

• consistently publish useful, original posts • promote your blog in intelligent ways to people

who are looking for information about your topic. • The more traffic your blog receives the higher it

will climb in Google’s results. • WordPress.com has great SEO right out of the

box — you don’t have to do anything extra. In fact, WordPress takes care of 80-90 percent of the mechanics of SEO for you.

Seo guide from Google

• http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

• I’ll upload it in our Google+ Community

Small Social Media Plan

Adjust

Tools Content

Marketing Strategies

YOU

Implement

Listen

Target Audience

Track and Measure

And now you...

http://susanmcalpine.wordpress.com/

http://talstrauss.wordpress.com/

http://lennarttriesschijn.wordpress.com/blog/

http://richardhechang.wordpress.com/

http://navidniknejad.wordpress.com/

http://thenewcontemporarymusic.wordpress.com

http://elinewelle.wordpress.com/bio/

http://sweeoostzeetournee.wordpress.com/

(Aniek Schuitemaker)

And now me...

Would you give me your feedback?

• Did you like the course? • What did you like the most? • What could be better? • In one sentence, tell me how did I do it?

David... • Would you share this in our Community or

send it to me via email if I may use it in my blog?