As a reformed corporate drone, I can tell you sites that greet you with music are not work safe. Your cube mates are immediately informed you're surfing and not solving the shareholder's problems. I hate 'em. (the noisy sites, not the cube mates :-) )
On 10/11/07, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had quite a few clients trying to put music on their > homepage, but none of mine would be served well by having > music. I have a site that's in development that uses a > splash page. Except for a few new announcement titles, it's > only for visual effect... music would work there. > > I think the only instance where non-stop music works is on > a page such as jingleads.com, where it's a splash page for > visual effects and image-building only. > > But if I were to put music on a splash page, I would definitely > make sure site visitors could avoid that page after getting into > the site. It would be highly annoying to have to go back to > that page to navigate to another part of the site, even if for a > brief moment. With every visit, the music would probably become > more annoying until a visitor would be eager to leave to site to > avoid the music. > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Michael E. Carluen > > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:43 AM > > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Site Submission, finally!! :-) > > > > > > Hey Rick, > > > > My client, http://jingleads.com (also a jQuery powered site), has been > > seeing a trend of a growing number of sites requesting 3 to 5 second > > landing > > page musical jingles and audio signature snippets. I'm sure music on > > sites > > work, it just depends on what people are trying to sell or convey. > > > > Michael > > > > > >
