Daniel Monskey
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Q: how to create a youtube subscribe button

I have a Youtube channel I would like to link to and promote with my website by putting a "subscribe" button on my website. I have been finding a lot of information demonstrating and giving "how to" directions for this. None of them are iWeb specific, though. So, when I do this there is a subscribe button on my, as of yet un---re-published, site (it has had to be entirely rebuilt due to destruction during computer failure). However, the HTML snippet remains inactive and the hyperlink is grey.

Is there anyone in this group who understands code or linking with buttons who could help me make the subscribe button for my site so it will function? I really appreciate any help that can be given.

Dan

 

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The only code that actually creates a subscribe button in the HTML snippet is listed below. This is what I am using (my ID or Youtube channel is wildmonkeyspro):

 

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=wildmonkeyspro" style=”overflow: hidden; height: 75px; width: 300px; border: 0;" scrolling=”no” frameBorder="0"></iframe>

 

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I've tried the code shown below created from the Youtube developers website listed here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/youtube_subscribe_button

However it does not work in an HTML snippet nor in a text box.



<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script>

 

 

<div class="g-ytsubscribe" data-channel="wildmonkeyspro" data-layout="full" data-count="default"></div>

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Posted on Jun 30, 2016 10:59 AM

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  • by Ethmoid,

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Jul 4, 2016 2:39 AM in response to Daniel Monskey
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    Jul 4, 2016 2:39 AM in response to Daniel Monskey

    Why not think about re-building your site with software that is actually supported and current such as EverWeb? 

     

    iWeb is obsolete software now and has not been supported by Apple for at least 4 years and has not been updated for 6 years.

     

    The longer you continue to use iWeb the less things are likely to work as with your YouTube subscribe button - I would advise you to quit iWeb now and re-build with EverWeb before you are forced to, when iWeb no longer works.

  • by Daniel Monskey,

    Daniel Monskey Daniel Monskey Jul 5, 2016 9:29 AM in response to Ethmoid
    Level 1 (4 points)
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    Jul 5, 2016 9:29 AM in response to Ethmoid

    I did recreate my website in EverWeb a few years back to keep ahead of the obsolete software. I found the widgets and other features of EverWeb to be limiting and insufficient for what I was looking for. When communicating with them they said they hadn't updated nor created those features yet, so it wasn't my limited understanding of the software.

    There is no magic wand for creating websites! When someone spends lots of time creating one they do not want to have to go back and do it again due to software issues. This is an old recommendation and just not helpful toward an answer of my query.

    Dan