On Apr 3, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
http://www.stenquist.com/Paul/Paul.htm
It looks nice but takes far too long to load. The background pic
crawled in. Being a 260kb animated gif, I'd say that the file is too
big. The other page backgrounds were similarly large. For this
reason I only looked at a few pages, as I'm not the most patient of
web viewers.
I'd recommend splitting the image up so the animated gif portion is
only a small section of the image. Use jpg for the rest, to reduce
the filesize - that pic will compress very well. Fireworks can do
this easily - I see that Dreamweaver was used so Fireworks may be
available (I bought both in a bundle). From Fireworks, the whole lot
becomes out bundled as a table which you can insert into your HTML file.
According to my HTML book there are three ways to embed sound:
1) <bgsound>, IE only
2) <DEFANGED_embed>, which are IE and Netscape extensions (translation: non-
standard so it won't work everywhere, as you've found here)
3) <DEFANGED_object> which, overall, seems a bit more complicated but is part
of the HTML4 standard.
I haven't tried this, but give it a go and see what happens... (this
replaces the <DEFANGED_embed ... ></embed> part in the code)
<DEFANGED_object data="../Typing.wav" type="audio/x-wav"></object>
Also, it's generally good practice to avoid capital letters and
spaces in web directory/filenames. This makes it easy to avoid
errors, especially when dictating a URL to someone (the behaviour of
errors will differ depending on whether you're using a Windows or
Unix-like host).
Cheers,
- Dave
