How to create a video blog website

Video blogging is another good way of showcasing your business on the web. With its help you inform the world about your latest products, announce achievements and review some world news and events important for the niche you are working in. Vlog, as an interactive, frequently updated medium can attract more potential customers and increase your company's web presence.

In general, it doesn't differ from usual blog too much. The only difference is that blog posts are made in video format. This appeals to up-to-date, tech savvy users that may be your potential clients. Creating a video blog is not that difficult, especially if you are using Site2You website builder.

Today we will create a simple vlog for a legal advice office Morgan&Phillips LLP. For this purpose we chose on of the premium web turnkeys for lawyers available in our gallery. Here it is: 

1. As always we will start from editing some meta data information of the website's main page. Go to the “Edit Page Layout” tab and click on “Page Properties”. Here you can set meta tags for the page. Here is the new HTML title we've created: 

2. Next step is a logotype change. Switch to the “Edit Content” mode and click “Edit highlighted content” in the upper right corner of the logo area. The same way we changed the slogan.

3. As video is the main content item of video blog website we can create the video list at one moment. Press “Advanced Conetent Editing” tab and on the right menu select Pages content => Yahoo video. Click on the button “Add new item” highlighted in red in the picture below. This way you can create a few videos which will be stored in the Yahoo Video administration category. 

To add video on the page, go to the “Edit Page Layout” tab => Add content box => Photo&Video => Yahoo/Google/Youtube video. Drag the video box to the necessary position and in the opened window move the item you need to the right column. 

To edit or resize the video, go to “Edit content” tab, click “Edit highlighted content” in the video area and set video properties. You can easily add a thumbnail by pasting the image link to the appropriate field. 

4. Once the video is on the page, we need to give it some title. This can be done with the help of text info box. Go to “Advanced content management” => Pages content => Page Texts. Click “Add new item” button and type the title and the preview text. 

To display the title on the page, go to “Edit Page Layout” tab => “Add content box” => Pages texts => Page texts. Drag the item right to the target position. 

In the opened window, select necessary title and drag it into the column “Displayed infobox elements”. 

By doing these simple operations, you can add as many videos to the page as you need.

5. By adding new elements to the category “Pages texts” we can create the side bar for our blog. Here is the “Blog archive” category:

To edit this infobox, or to link entries to the particular pages, go to “Edit content” tab and click on “Edit highlighted content” in the “Blog Archive” area. Select necessary text line and press on “Insert link” button in the WYSIWYG editor. Paste the URL of the page you will link to, set the rest of details and click the green colored button “Insert”.You can link the text both to site's pages and external URLs. 

Here is another category we've added to the main page using the order described above. 

You can tie up any site's texts or images with any web page. In the previous article you can find details of creating a new page within our site builder and linking it to the texts and photos. The whole process will take less than a few minutes. Here is our final result: 

As you might notice, it's quite easy to create a video blog. If you want to make your blog attractive and keep visitors' interests, you'll need to upload high quality videos on some hot discussed topics, and update your vlog at least once a week. Some unique style of your videos will single out your company among others. Also don't forget to diverse the topics your vlog will cover. Consider everything that might be interesting for the audience: announcements, advertising, educational and“behind the scenes” videos, games and contests etc. Using our site builder you have a possibility to create an advanced video blog which will make money and provide a more personal image for your business.