On Oct 18, 2004, at 5:52 AM, dhbailey wrote:
If you are teaching how to integrate music and sound with websites, please teach them:
1) make the volume fairly quiet so it doesn't blast the neighbors awake at 1 in the morning;
2) have a clearly visible, easy to locate, clickable OFF butto for those of us who hate web-sites that force their music on us;
3) program any music inclusion so that visitors don't have to download any special plug-ins to hear the music -- nothing makes me leave a website faster than being told that I have to download something else to fully enjoy the web-site.
Amen to all three of these. With regard to the third, less than a year ago I was using an ancient computer which could only handle a fairly old browser. On that computer, most sites which gave me the "you must download" window crashed my system. It was because of things like that that I was extremely careful exploring the Web on that computer, basically not going to any site unless I knew ahead of time what it was.
The more general rule, of course, is that when designing any aspect of a website, don't assume that the user has the same system that you do. All the books preach that, but it still seems like most amateur and even some professional designers pay no heed.
mdl
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