Embedding Video (& other widgets) It couldn’t be easier to embed YouTube videos, or any of the tens of thousands of third party ‘web widgets’.  Most web widgets provide a short snippet of HTML on their website and with the new Web Designer you can now simply paste these directly onto the page. This automatically creates a placeholder with an accurate preview of the widget. Simply preview your web page to see your fully functional widget. Another new feature is that you can drop an .MP4 format video file on the page to create an embedded video, along with a movie player. It couldn’t be easier. Here’s an example. What’s more with embedded movies like this you can just resize it to be any required size on the page. Google Maps It’s just as easy to add an interactive Google Map widget.  Let’s use one of the provided Widgets from the Widget Gallery. Open the Designs Gallery, go to the ‘Other Widgets’ section and drag and drop the Google Map widget onto this page. It opens a configuration page (it’s actually just the Google maps page). Go to the location you want on your map. Click the blue ‘Link’ on the top right of the window and copy the second line of HTML. Now click the Insert button at the bottom of the window. After a few seconds you’ll see your Google map gadget inserted on your page. Preview to see your fully functional embedded Google Map. Tip: The Help button at the bottom of the configuration page tells you about each Widget. Here’s an interactive Google Map of the London Eye (which seems to be in the middle of the River Thames). Content Management through Web Designer, with Ronald Schexnayder.