For what it's worth, Paul, I only get a "blank" page of a piece of torn
paper.
(No links).
(I've got some features disabled as default, though: sounds, animations and
video.)
Lasse
From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Website Help Needed
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
