I posted my first blog entry with embedded video this morning. As you’d expect I simply copied the supplied embed code from the relative video on YouTube (with customised colour of course) and pasted it in my post*. As my blog text column is only 350pixels wide and YouTube’s default video width is 425pixels this meant that I had to resize the video whilst maintaining the videos width to height ratio. How? Easy...
In your YouTube embed code you will see TWO instances of:
width="425" height="344"
Simply change the BOTH the instances to the width and height you require. In my case the width="350". As the ratio of the YouTube window seems to be roughly 1.2:1 to find the height simply divide your width by 1.2
width / 1.2 = height
350 / 1.2 = 291.666 (I rounded down to 291)
Once you’ve plugged in your new numbers the video window will be nicely resized.
J
* Therein lay some problems leading me to have to download WLW Beta – but more on this later.