Re: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Matthew's raised a good point about cross-platform operability of the background music. As a result, I'd suggest using Flash instead. Have a 1x1 pixel Flash movie dropped in somewhere on the page that streams in an external MP3 and export the Flash movie as low a version number as you can (I

Re: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matthew's raised a good point about cross-platform operability of the background music. As a result, I'd suggest using Flash instead. Just make sure it's flash, not director. There is no director plugin for linux! However I would strongly

Re: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Hoenig, Robert
That is very helpful. I'm using this code cause I found that it would work under most browsers but never really looked at it. Good point about using Media player. Thanks The site is www.bridesnumberone.com/redesign/main.htm Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting

Re: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Hoenig, Robert
I tried to talk them out of it but she's very adament that she wants background music. I would agree it's very annoying. It's a bridal site and she saw another bridal site that has the music so of course she had to copy them. I looked at the other site and I believe your right it was created

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Cheryl D Wise
You should realize that 90% of the sites created in FrontPage 2003 (and almost as many created in an earlier version) are not sites that rival geocities for worst of the web. The majority are boring table based sites with too many font tags and not enough CSS but otherwise like most websites

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Hoenig, Robert
I would agree. I think Frontpage is a great tool for beginner's and want a low cost tool to publish a web site OR for the advanced user that knows how to manipulate the unnecessary code the FP puts in. I started developing using FP and found it much more advantagous to code using HTML editors

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Conyers, Dwayne, Mr [C]
Hoenig, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: they want a music file to play when a page loads Please talk them out of it. One of the more annoying aspects of surfing is to load a page and then you get BLASTED by music playing at 90 decibels (volume settings never seem to give

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Conyers, Dwayne, Mr [C]
Hoenig, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: I don't know Flash but would like to learn There is a tool called SWISH (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php) that is an easy to use tool that exports Flash format files. You can try the trial version and if you like, upgrade to the registered

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Hoenig, Robert
Thanks. I'll take a look at that. Conyers wrote: Hoenig, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: I don't know Flash but would like to learn There is a tool called SWISH (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php) that is an easy to use tool that exports Flash format files. You can try the

RE: [wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-02 Thread Cheryl D Wise
Swish is very easy to use and if you need just bits of Flash here and there makes far more sense than tackling the learning curve of Flash 8. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP FrontPage http://by-expression.com Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com Aug. 20th session Expression Web Designer and

[wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-01 Thread Hoenig, Robert
I'm developing a site for someone and they want a music file to play when a page loads. I can get it to work on IE, Firefox, and Netscape using bgsound but it's not working when viewed on a mac. if (navigator.appName == Microsoft Internet Explorer) { document.write('bgsound

[wdvltalk] Background Sound on web site

2006-08-01 Thread Hoenig, Robert
I'm developing a site for someone and they want a music file to play when a page loads. I can get it to work on IE, Firefox, and Netscape using bgsound but it's not working when viewed on a mac. if (navigator.appName == Microsoft Internet Explorer) { document.write('bgsound