So you've decided to create videos and post them on YouTube have you? And you've heard about this here thing called a channel. It looks neat with lots of cool tools to help you produce, and sell your products.
But how do you get started?
Well first of all you start by thinking about it. Yup, the good ol' prestart. Why do you want a channel? What are you going to use it for? Do you need one channel or one for each interest? Answer these and any other questions you can think up before you start creating your channel. It's always easier to determine your strategy first than to clean up the mess when you decide after you've created a mess load of videos.
Well the first thing you need after you've made up your mind is to find your way over to YouTube.com. So fire up Firefox or Internet Explorer or Google Chrome or my favorite Lynx. Actually forget Lynx, it's text only and it's hard to watch videos in text mode, In short use your favorite webhost (I was being silly suggesting Lynx) and surf your way over to YouTube.
Once you get there you're going to need a sign in aka an account. So over in the upper right hand corner you'll see a menu item for Create Account and Sign In. Since you're creating an account take the obvious alternative and hit the back button. No, don't be silly hit the Create Account item. Not with your fist, put the cursor on it and click your mouse button. And here I thought I was getting silly!
Okay, now YouTube and Google don't get along well together. (Corporate politics don't you know). So if you're signed on to a Google account (such as groups or gmail), you're about to be signed off. If not then you'll go straight to the new account screen. See how it's asking for a username and a bunch of other stuff? Fill those fields in. I would suggest that you let others find your channel with or without an email address actually.
The bad news is that you might not be able to get your username. The good news is that if it is taken YouTube will give you a number of alternative suggestions.
You now have a choice to make. Add YouTube to your Google account or create a new Google account.
Cool, you now have your very own YouTube account. Lucky you!
Now all you need is a channel. Which was the purpose of this escapade as you will remember.
Guess what? You already have one. It was automatically created when you created your YouTube account. Cool or what?
All you really need to do now then is to customize your channel page (and post some videos). So select the Customize Channel link or go over to your username, click on that and select My Channel. You'll now find yourself on the channel customization page. Just go into the fist section and make whatever changes you wish.
Now all you have to do is upload some videos and you are set to go. So put the cursor back on top your name and hit the left button. Now select My Videos and hit the click button once again.
You are now on the videos page. Click on the New button and then select Video Upload. Go ahead and fill in the form and press enter.
Guess what, you've started your very own YouTube channel. Now what are you going to do with it?
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