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Adding sounds and music to your webpage
by
Alan Zisman
(c) 2002 - read in Czech (Přečtěte si v češtině) and in Portuguese (obrigado a Artur Weber), in Hindi (thanks to Jordan Mendez), in Romanian thanks to Casinority, and in Estonian thanks to Martin Aus
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Netscape
Composer (and other
simple WYSIWYG webpage editors such as the free Kompozer) don't have an easy way to add sounds or
music to your page... if you want, you can make a link on your page to
a sound or music file, and it will play when the user clicks on the
link. That's easy, but isn't what most people want. To make a music or
sound file play automatically, however, you need to edit the HTML code
by hand.
This is the
yucky stuff that
you are trying to avoid by using Composer (et al)... but if you want
the music to play automatically, you have to do it.
Here's how
(using Windows
systems as an example. The process is similar on Macs or Linux or using
other webpage editors-- but the details will vary):
- Open your page in Netscape Composer (etc)
- Click on Edit/HTML Source
- If your file has not been saved, you'll be
prompted
to do so...
- If this is the first time you're doing this in
Composer, you'll be asked to select the program to use. Unless you have
a better HTML source editing program, you probably want to use Windows
Notepad... so browse to yourC:\Windows folder, and
pick Notepad.exe (or
just type: C:\Windows\Notepad.exe in the dialogue box)
- The file will be loaded into Notepad, and will
look
something like this:
- Scroll down almost to the bottom until you see </body>
and press Enter to get a new line right above it. Add the following:
<EMBED
SRC="Testsound.wav" width=1 height =1 hidden=true autostart=true
loop=false>
(It's OK if it takes more than one line, but don't
press
Enter to break up the line... this assumes, of course, that you have a
sound file "Testsound.wav"
- If you want the sound to only play once, then loop=false...
if you want it to keep playing as long as the page is being displayed,
change it to read loop=true
- When you are done, save your changes and exit
Notepad... you'll see the following message:
Say Yes. In Composer, you may notice a small empty box at the
bottom of your page... don't worry-- it won't show up when you view
your page in a browser. (That's what the hidden=true
part of
your typing meant!)
A link:
HTML
And PHP Scripts - Html Code For Adding Music
Information About HTML History, PHP History, PHP Programming, PHP
Basics, HTML Code
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Alan
Zisman is a
Vancouver educator,
writer, and computer specialist. He can be reached at E-mail Alan
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