You can hardly visit YouTube or Google Video to find a video about your hotel or sports club, you will have to make your own video or have it made for you. But let's not talk about hotels and sports clubs, lets talk about you and the eBook or software program that you want to promote which is the reason lots of us have.

To get Flash video up and running we need to download some files and prepare our site. So lets get started now.

Step One: Preparing your site.

There are several plugins available for embedding flash video on your website, some are better than others and some are more user friendly. WP-FLV is one, FLV Embed is another and WordTube is the one that we will be using here. Visit the site, read up on the plugin and download it. Unpack the zip file and upload the folder into the WordPress plugins folder. Note do not change the folder names. You will also need the free (for personal use) Flash Media Player from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the website, unzip it and upload only the mediaplayer.swf into the wordtube folder. Activate the plugin.

Go to your admin area, then Options->Manage->wordTube to set up the options. You can use the default upload folder or change it to another such as /wp-content/videos. You can upload your files via Manage->Media Center. Note for streaming videos the Flash player will not show a preview, therefore you need also to upload a image (thumbnail) file. After uploading your video you can insert the tag [MEDIA=ID] into your post where you wish the embedded Flash video to be displayed. ID is the number of the video in the Media Centre. Make sure that you use UPPPER case otherwise it will not work.

The second part of this article is available to read at WebsiteVideoGuide