How to Customize Your 2.0 Youtube Channel Layout
In April 2010, YouTube, the Internet's largest provider of streaming media, changed the layout of many of its pages, including the channel layout for individual user channels. You can customize your YouTube 2.0 channel layout extensively by changing the color scheme, adding a background graphic, choosing the way your content displays, selecting the videos you want to feature on your channel and specifying the content modules that YouTube displays in boxes in your layout.
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Instructions
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Log in to your YouTube account and click the button with your username on it in the upper right corner of the homepage.
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Click "Channel" in the gray bar labeled "My Account" that appears below the header when you click your username.
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Click the "Settings" tab in the menu below the header on the left and enter a title for your channel. It can be your name, your website, your band's name or anything else you want. Also enter the type of channel you have by clicking the drop-down menu next to "Channel Type." You can select from YouTuber, Director, Musician, Comedian, Guru or Reporter.
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Ensure that the box next to "Make Channel Visible" is checked if you want other users to be able to see your channel. If not, uncheck this box.
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Enter channel tags in the "Channel Tags" field. Channel tags are keywords that describe your channel's content.
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Click the "Save Changes" button to make the changes to your settings permanent, then click the "Themes and Colors" tab above the panel to switch to your layout's design settings.
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Select one of the default layout color schemes YouTube provides for your channel by clicking it.
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Click "Show Advanced Options" to create your own color scheme. Specify the font and color palette that you want for your layout.
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Upload a background image by clicking the "Browse" button next to "Background Image," browsing your hard drive for the image file, then double-clicking it to upload it to YouTube's servers. If you want to tile the image as a repeating background, check that box below the "Background Image" field.
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Click the "Save Changes" button when you're done customizing your channel's color palette and design, then click the "Modules" tab in the upper menu.
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Check the boxes next to the modules you'd like to display on your channel's layout. If you'd like to remove any modules that you are currently displaying, uncheck the boxes next to their names.
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Click the "Save Changes" button when you're done selecting the modules you want to display, then click the "Videos and Playlists" tab in the upper menu.
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Check the boxes next to the types of video and playlist content you'd like to display on your channel. You can display your uploaded videos, your favorite videos and your playlists.
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Select from the "Featured Layout" drop-down menu if you'd like your featured content to display in player view, which shows a single video in the YouTube player at the top of your channel, or if you'd like it to show in grid view, which shows your featured content in thumbnail grids. Also select if you'd like your Featured Content to show your uploaded videos, your favorite videos by other users, or both.
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Select from the drop-down menu under "Featured Video" which video you'd like your visitors to see in the Featured Player when they first visit your channel. Also check the box below it if you'd like the video to automatically start playing when your visitors visit your channel.
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Click "Save Changes" when you've finished customizing the way featured videos on your channel look.
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Tips & Warnings
YouTube only allows your background images to be 256k. If it's any higher then that it simply won't work.
