Hi Lesley, On 1 March 2010 00:55, Lesley Lutomski <ubu...@webaflame.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks to all who have replied. > > The clients in question are a committee (first problem!), who all say "Oh, I > know nothing about computers/the internet" but at the same time refuse to be > guided. Referring them to usability articles is a non-starter, because > they'll just not look at them. I've tried reducing the arguments to very > basic, non-technical issues, but my powers of persuasion are apparently > lacking.
Maybe they need a real world example. Next meeting you have with the committee, before they arrive, hide a couple of portable stereos in your reception. Have them playing 'pleasant' music, simultaneously. Let them wait a little while before you bring them into the meeting room where you have more music playing – don’t switch it off before they ask you to :-) > Given that I can't afford to turn down the work, I'll take on board the > points folk have made here and promise to do the least-awful job on it I > can! Make the point that you are in the business of building websites which leave a positive impression on the visitors and it would be negligent on your part; to not point out the cons of music on a page. Where the music is not the primary subject of the content anyway. Failing that…I have not tried it - but something like this appears to provide the control you would want to STOP the music: <http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/> Perhaps if you added a mouseenter/focus event to a large portion of the page which would switch it off. Once you know the visitor has had enough of the 'ambience' of the site and is ready to learn more… Good luck! Ollie @ollicle ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
