I have a question (about Web pages)

[MightyMacbeth]

I know that you can open "Microsoft Word" and save what you write as a "Web Page". But I have a question, can I put a sound clip? so that if the person opens the page, he/she will hear music.

Thanks, and if I have there is something you dont understand, please do tell

 

[Donkey]

Yes you can but it is usually not recommended since most people find it annoying....

You just need to embed the audio clip and have it auto start....

here this will give you a quick how to
http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp

This page gives you all the attributes and what they do
http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_realvideo.asp

W3schools is an awesome resource

Do you want them to see the player or no?

 

[sunb!]

What Donkey said; being with the old school of HTML we soon learned putting video and sound clips in the HTML code made the pages load slower and people stopped the transfer in preferation of other web pages with similar contents. But that was back in the days when US Robotics 14400 bps modems were top notch...

How large files do you want to add to your HTML scripts?

 

[MightyMacbeth]

Donkey, I will see what you provided me thanks

sunb!, the file is approx 2.59Mb ^_^

 

[Donkey]

What Donkey said; being with the old school of HTML we soon learned putting video and sound clips in the HTML code made the pages load slower and people stopped the transfer in preferation of other web pages with similar contents. But that was back in the days when US Robotics 14400 bps modems were top notch...

How large files do you want to add to your HTML scripts?

Well I was more getting at the dont make things autostart.....Just allow the user to start and stop them as they wish....

The annoying part is when you are listening to music and all of a sudden something else is playing our you didnt realize your volume was cranked and you open a page and BLALDSBSJBLKJBASHD blast the sound goes

 

[MightyMacbeth]

lol, I get the feeling. But I want it automatic heh, or actually, I'll check both and see whats better

 

[sunb!]

Well I was more getting at the dont make things autostart.....Just allow the user to start and stop them as they wish....

I like the player at www.madrugada.net, it is simple but yet so powerful and nice located on the screen, check it out...

 

[MightyMacbeth]

I like the player at www.madrugada.net, it is simple but yet so powerful and nice located on the screen, check it out...

Exactly, how can I do something similar ?

 

[Donkey]

Well that is a bit more complex and is done with frames and server side scripting (possibly PHP) which if not done properly can be very bad and hinder SEO as well as a user getting lost in a frame and not being able to get back to your site....

 

[sunb!]

Well that is a bit more complex and is done with frames and server side scripting (possibly PHP) which if not done properly can be very bad and hinder SEO as well as a user getting lost in a frame and not being able to get back to your site....

It is not hard to do a script for this, but the trouble is how to integrate it in the design and make it look good. I do not worry about the frames though, you only need two frames where one is static and the other one dynamic (the contents frame) and stick to that.

Or just crank up a java player for wav files, please hold; streaming 45 megs of raw data :wink:

How about Winamp, you have some options there that is cool to play around with.

 

[Donkey]

It is not hard to do a script for this, but the trouble is how to integrate it in the design and make it look good. I do not worry about the frames though, you only need two frames where one is static and the other one dynamic (the contents frame) and stick to that.

Or just crank up a java player for wav files, please hold; streaming 45 megs of raw data :wink:

How about Winamp, you have some options there that is cool to play around with.

I said it was more complex not hard

That site is def powered by a server side script though....Which if you are new to things isnt exactly easy....I mean one could always go the easy route of a pre-made CMS and skin it to their liking...There is a plethora of modules for those things...

Or

You could just strategically embed media player or quick time with controls...

 

[sunb!]

I said it was more complex not hard

That site is def powered by a server side script though....Which if you are new to things isnt exactly easy....I mean one could always go the easy route of a pre-made CMS and skin it to their liking...There is a plethora of modules for those things...

Or

You could just strategically embed media player or quick time with controls...

I would rather go for the last option than with the pre-made scripts, but if you have the basic knowledge of programming a few hours of fun can result in almost everything :type:

 

[MightyMacbeth]

Oh man, I want the most simples way of making a background sound in my simple web page. What way would that be?
And I am new to this, so concider me as a young child hehe

 

[sunb!]

Something like this...

<EMBED ALIGN="CENTER" SRC="[B]yourfile[/B]" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="145" 
AUTOSTART="FALSE" VOLUME="60%" MASTERSOUND ></EMBED>

You can locate the player where you want on the screen. There are other ways of doing it but it is too early morning for me atm.

Edit: Came across this one http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/, looks nice and should be of no hazzle to integrate.

 

[MightyMacbeth]

Something like this...

<EMBED ALIGN="CENTER" SRC="[B]yourfile[/B]" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="145" 
AUTOSTART="FALSE" VOLUME="60%" MASTERSOUND ></EMBED>

.

okay heh.. what is that? :neutral:

 

[sunb!]

okay heh.. what is that? :neutral:

That is the answer to your question... :wink:

 

[MightyMacbeth]

That is the answer to your question... :wink:

lol, yes but how do I use it?? what are all those sites about then? heh..

sorry I sound noobish :?

 

[Donkey]

This is great

Snub gave you the code to use in your html to embed a player, albeit not HTML 4.0 compliant (attributes cant be caps)

<embed
src="YOURFILE.mp3"
width="50%"
height="50%"
autostart="false"
console="smallconsole">
</embed>

http://www.w3schools.com/media/tryit.asp?filename=trymedia_soundmidiembed

http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp

 

[MightyMacbeth]

ahh yes but where do I put this code? heh.. In the Microsoft word? :?

 

[sunb!]

Snub gave you the code to use in your html to embed a player, albeit not HTML 4.0 compliant (attributes cant be caps)

You're right on that one :thumb:

ahh yes but where do I put this code? heh.. In the Microsoft word?

Save your work as html from Word, open the file with notepad or other plain text editor, and insert the embed script in the HTML code. If you don't understand how to do it, drop a line here...