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Lesson 7: Using Images and Videos in Your Site

It's been proven time and again that new visitors to your site make a decision within just a few seconds as to whether they're going to stick around or leave. Images are known to both:

a) draw people's attention to them, and

b) make your site look more professional (thus getting visitors to stick around for another few seconds--hopefully long enough to start reading your content).

 

Videos and images can be used to simply liven up your site and provide a little divisersity in the format of the content. And clearly there are many situations in which it just makes sense to convey an idea with an image or a video rather than trying to explain it with text.

 
How to Add Images to Your Content

In this video, Mike shows how to add images to a piece of content by using Joomla's Media Manager.

Video (Length: 4 minutes)

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Embedding Videos in Your Content

Here, Mike explains how to embed a video into a piece of content. (We use YouTube in the example, but a similar process should work with any of your favorite video sharing sites.)

Video (Length: 4.5 minutes)

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