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Adding Sounds and/or Music to a Web Site
Adding sound-music is easy. Theirs several ways to add sound to
your web site. You can use FrontPage to add background music and/or sounds for
your pages or hover buttons, also you can manually insert HTML coding to
accomplish adding these files.
Several things you should consider before choosing your method:
When using the FrontPage insert background sounds, some browsers
can not recognize the music.
Some people that visit your site may not want to hear music when they enter.
How should you set up the music to play? What are your targeted viewers
preferences?
Do you want viewers to be able to play or not the music if they choose too,
or for it to auto play?
NOTE: I personally dislike sites that embed sounds to play
automatically.
( sometimes I don't like the music, most times I'm in a rush and don't want to
be bothered with it, as I most likely have my own playing in the background.)
So take others likes and dislikes into consideration, also the purpose of the
music? Does it enhance your design? Does it have a purpose!
Once you've made those decisions then you can choose the best
format to present your sound or music with in your web site.
First create a folder named music to hold your music files in
your website. (
right click in Folder List View,
choose new, folder, the text will be highlighted, hit the backspace key on your
keyboard, type in the word music and then hit the enter key.
You've
now created a music folder.)
Now place your selected music into this folder. The easiest way is
to drag and drop, but use what ever method is comfortable for you. Once you've
added all your music files to your FrontPage music folder. Your ready to
make your webpage sing!
Sound using FrontPage Background function:
Set a background sound for a web page
- In Page view, right-click the page, and then
click Page Properties on the shortcut
menu.
- On the General tab, under
Background sound, in the
Location box, type the sound file you want to
play, or click Browse to locate the file.
- Do one of the following:
- To play the sound continuously, select the
Forever check box.
- To play the sound a fixed number of times, clear the
Forever check box, and enter the number of
times you want the sound to play in the Loop box.
When a site visitor opens a page, the sound is played.
Note This feature is not supported by all Web browsers. See Graphic
Below for Page properties dialog box, the sound function is underlined!
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