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Adding a Video to your Testimonials

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Testimonials are a great way to add content to your website that highlights your service to your clients. Having video testimonials allows your website visitors to meet the people who have benefited from your service.

This tutorial will review how to include a Youtube video into your Testimonials page.  

This tutorial requires a video uploaded onto Youtube and some basic knowledge of HTML.  To embed a video outside of the Testimonials editor, use custom paragraphs.

Video Tutorial

2. Go to your Testimonials page

Edit Content - Google Chrome

3. Open the Testimonials panel and add a new testimonial.  

Edit Content - Google Chrome

4. From the editing panel, select the "Iframe" option

Edit Content - Google Chrome

5. Open your Youtube video and in the Share options, select "Embed"

TestimonialExample - YouTube - Google Chrome
TestimonialExample - YouTube - Google Chrome

Please note that copying the Youtube video URL  will not allow you to embed it into a website. Please use the "embed" address.  

Copy the address from the embed code as shown in the following example.

Take note of the width and height. You can use these dimensions, and they can be adjusted on your website as needed.

TestimonialExample - YouTube - Google Chrome

6. Return to your Testimonials page in your Site Builder.

Paste the address you copied into the Iframe window.

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Add width and height attributes. You can use the default attributes from the Youtube embed code.

TestimonialExample - YouTube - Google Chrome
Edit Content - Google Chrome

Adjust this code as needed.  

Advanced options:  For this video to fit in all windows, including on mobile browsers, you can use percentages for the "width", which will correspond to the width of the testimonial column. Please note, results may vary depending on the template you select and your browser.  

Edit Content - Google Chrome

7. Click "Save" to save this testimonial, and "Done" to close the window.

The window must be closed by clicking "Done" at the bottom of the Testimonials block for this page to "Save".

Edit Content - Google Chrome
Edit Content - Google Chrome

8. Save this page and Publish.

You can "Preview" this page before publishing and return to adjust as needed.

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