Thanks to Dave and to all the numerous others who responded to my
request for help. If I had know there would be this many, I would have
suggested responding offline. But I'm very appreciative. My daughter
has already made some changes in response to points raised here.
Probably more to come. Thanks again to all.
Paul
On Apr 3, 2006, at 1:55 AM, David Mann wrote:
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
