This page will help you add an instant video archive to your website. This works with almost all blog software, including Wordpress, Typepad and Blogger.

Ryanne made a Freevlog tutorial (Quicktime movie) about how to add an Instant Archive to your Blogger blog.

Summer 2005. I was visiting Jay and Ryanne who live (like me) in Harlem, NYC, and we were talking about how it's hard to see a list of your videos on Blogger blogs (they're free, but they don't give you categories). Archives are important, and the longer you blog, the more important they become. So on the spot, I had a thought. Mefeedia could provide free instant archives with thumbnails. It would be easy! In about half an hour, I implemented it and showed them how it would work. Michael Verdi was there too, and made a video showing how excited we all were.

Let's get started!

Step 1 : find your feed and enter its number.

To find your feed, go to the Mefeedia directory. Find you feed, and write down the id number.

Then enter the feed id number here:

Step 2 (and you're done!) : create a new post on your blog and copy this code in it.

1. Copy the code below.
2. Paste it in a blog post (make sure you're in "HTML" mode). Now you have an archive page that gets updated automatically whenever you add a movie.
   1. In Blogger, when you click "Publish", a warning will come up. Check the checkbox and publish again.
3. Now add a link to your new archive in your sidebar.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://mefeedia.com/feeds/96/thumbs/10000.js"> </script> <br><font size="-1"><a href="http://mefeedia.com/help/javascript/feedthumbs.php">Video archive by Mefeedia</a></font>

It will look something like this on your site: (You can change the way it looks with stylesheets, here's a short tutorial.)

Geeky details:

First of all, you can change the look of the images with your stylesheet. Each images has a class="mefeedia-thumb", and each surrounding link has a class="mefeedia-link". (Here's a short and easy tutorial.)

So if you want to add some spacing around your images for example, just add this code to your CSS:

.mefeedia-thumb { margin: 4px; padding: 4px; }

And:

• The images link to the permalink of your video post.
• The video posts will automatically be updated whenever you post a new video. It might take a few hours to show up though.
• If not all your videos show up in the archive, just hang in there. We are working on improving that, and soon the archive will be complete. It'll automagically update on your site, so when that happens you don't have to do anything.
• To change the way the pictures look, you have to make changes to your stylesheet. More info to come.
• Tell your friends!