How to embed YouTube videos in your blog posts

See this screencast tutorial to learn how to embed videos from YouTube right in the middle of your blog post (like I did in my previous post).
It would be cool if I could embed the screencast right here in the blog post, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately, I can’t do that, because it’s a Flash file and [...]

Think you know how to google?

Check out his very short and as always, brilliant video from Common Craft. Even if you think you know how to use search engines, I bet there will be a tip or two in this video you didn’t know about:

Creating a new blog post

The final tutorial for today allows you to witness the steps I go through as I create a new blog post. In this tutorial I talk you through each step as I actually do it, so you can see exactly what I click, how I insert links, and how easy it is to create blog [...]

Blog terms tutorials

Here are 3 very brief tutorials (about 2 minutes each) that teach you the basic terms of blogging.
The first tutorial teaches the terms Blog, Blog post, and Blog page.
The second tutorial teaches the terms Blog URL, Permalink, Comment, and Trackback
The third tutorial teaches about Tags, Tag clouds, Blogrolls and how to find blogs about public [...]

WordPress dashboard overview

Here is another brief tutorial that provides an overview to the WordPress dashboard. If you have any questions about editing your blog, please ask them in the comments section for this post.

Using Google Reader to subscribe to blogs

Here is a tutorial on how to use Google Reader to subscribe to blog RSS feeds. If you don’t know what RSS feeds are, that’s OK, they’re explained in the video (duration: about 3 minutes).
Please ask any questions in the comments to this post.