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I am brand new to Squarespace (still a 15day trial user), and not familiar with html, and have just bought a webcam using Evocam Built-in Web Server. SO I am having an uphill battle here. But any pointers to solving my problem would be most gratefully received.

For my first test of SquareSpace, I created a new Journal Entry and added some text. Great, it works. The I added a video stream from my new webcam. I used some html code supplied by EvoCam, the webcam support company that supports webcams on Apple OS X. It worked, though only for me ,as I am still only using my local IP address and not the one the rest of the world can see. But it worked.

BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM. When I add any other image or video - anything that involves adding more html to the journal, I lose my video stream. I see that the html APPLET that was used to give me the first stream disappears when I add more html code. SO I am suspecting there is some BASIC html thing I need to know to be able to add more than one image/video to a journal.

here is code that works:

<p>words words words</p>
<p>adding a video below</p>
<p><APPLET CODEBASE="http://192.168.2.11:8080" ARCHIVE="evocam.jar" CODE="com.evological.evocam.class" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240>

<PARAM NAME="video" VALUE="video.cgi">

<PARAM NAME="archive" VALUE="evocam.jar">

</APPLET></p>
<p>words under the video</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

Here is the resultant code that appears when I add the next image on the page:

<p>words words words</p>
<p>adding a video below</p>
<p>
<param name="video" value="video.cgi" />
<param name="archive" value="evocam.jar" /> </p>
<p>words under the video</p>
<p>now I add the image below, and things get screwed</p>
<p><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span></span></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>

So you see that some of the original html code that supported the video has been deleted by adding more html code.

WHAT IS HAPPENING? Point me in direction of some html hints and tips.

Any help will be appreciated.

I am switching between WYSIWYG and raw html. When you insert a video in WYSIWYG it launches a raw html window where I stuff the applet code supplied by web-server software. I save and close that (raw html) window, then save and close the WYSIWYG window. I think you are onto something, in that stuff is being lost between WYSIWYG window and html window. I learned that I do not even have to add any additional video object (that forces a html editing sub-window to be filled in) for the problem to arise. If I just add a few words of text after the (first) video, I seem to lose the video object.
I will continue to experiment noting exactly what I do to bring on the problem. I am sure it is something glaringly obvious.

Thanks Krystyn for your response

Additional observation. When I add the applet code supplied by the webcam server provider - the APPLET - the pop-up window that I place the code in has a reminder at the top about "include enclosing tags". Since I do not know what that means, I ignore it. I just add blindly the applet code, change the ip address to refer to my server, then save and close. Is there some additional html code that I need to wrap the applet code inside that protects it from being deleted? The problem does seem to related to reopening in edit mode the second time, even just to add one character of text in the journal.