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 think streaming MP3s is about Flash 5) to ensure you don't trigger 
too many player updates just for background music.


However I would strongly recommend putting in some form of playback control 
to actually turn the music off because unless you do it right and integrate 
the music with the overal web experience, background music is RIDICULOUSLY 
annoying.


That being said though the really annoying stuff is embedded MIDI files so 
at least you'd have a decent file using MP3.


But I do concur to a degree with Matthew's question of why they want 
background music anyway. As I mentioned unless you're enhancing the user 
experience by integrating music into the visuals I would really try to talk 
these people out of background music. It's really annoying and screams I 
can use FrontPage so I'm a web designer amateurism.


MOU 




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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 recommend putting in some form of playback
control to actually turn the music off because unless you do it right
and integrate the music with the overal web experience, background
music is RIDICULOUSLY annoying.

That being said though the really annoying stuff is embedded MIDI files
so at least you'd have a decent file using MP3.

But I do concur to a degree with Matthew's question of why they want
background music anyway. As I mentioned unless you're enhancing the
user experience by integrating music into the visuals I would really
try to talk these people out of background music. It's really annoying
and screams I can use FrontPage so I'm a web designer amateurism.


You always manage to say what we're thinking without upsetting anyone... ;)

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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 Hoenig, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 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 src=music/heart.mp3 LOOP=false');
   }
   else {
   document.write('embed type=application/x-mplayer2   
 pluginspage=http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/;   
 Name=MediaPlayer src=music/heart.mp3 AutoStart=true   
 ShowStatusBar=0 ShowControls=0 ShowDisplay=0 volume=1   
 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 loop=infinitebr');
   }

 That's the script I'm using???  Do I need to use a different format   
 (I'm using mp3) ??

What's the web address so I can test it live? I can almost guarantee  
that it won't work under linux either.  Why? Because you're requesting  
Microsoft's Media player.  The chances of this being installed on any  
operating system other than windows is slim to none, which raises a  
few questions:

1) Why are you putting background sound on the website? :oP
2) (and much more seriously) Why not let the operating system decide  
what it uses to play the file?

Unfortunately, I can't provide any hints on how to let the operating  
system decide, as I've never put sound into the background of the  
webpage.

My personal preference under Linux is mplayer, however I know that a  
lot of people use Xine, xmms or even (in some extreme cases) Windows  
Media Player running under Wine (a windows emulator).

Hope this is of some help,

Matt


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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 in FP.  

The unfortunate thing is I don't know Flash but would like to learn.  Any good 
sites or examples I could use to do this?  I have the software just haven't 
taken the time to learn it.

 Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
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 think streaming MP3s is about Flash 5) to ensure you don't trigger 
too many player updates just for background music.

However I would strongly recommend putting in some form of playback control 
to actually turn the music off because unless you do it right and integrate 
the music with the overal web experience, background music is RIDICULOUSLY 
annoying.

That being said though the really annoying stuff is embedded MIDI files so 
at least you'd have a decent file using MP3.

But I do concur to a degree with Matthew's question of why they want 
background music anyway. As I mentioned unless you're enhancing the user 
experience by integrating music into the visuals I would really try to talk 
these people out of background music. It's really annoying and screams I 
can use FrontPage so I'm a web designer amateurism.

MOU 



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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 created in the late 
90s on. 

The main problem with FrontPage is also its strength, it is easy to use and 
that lets some people live their dreams of excess. Take a look at the output of 
every site builder I've ever seen and you'll see equally bad sites. I've seen 
crappy music on load, flashing animated garbage on sites that were hand coded. 
Granted not as many because it takes more time and effort but I've seen them 
just as I have on sites created in Dreamweaver.

It isn't the tool is the user. Sometimes it takes real talent and hard work to 
create a site that is as bad as some I've seen (and yes, the particular one I'm 
thinking of is a FrontPage site but the designer has gone far beyond what 
FrontPage could easily do adding babelfish translations, SEO optimization by 
large paragraphs of font size 1 keyword stuffing, incomprehensible navigation, 
comments made by people who have looked at the site include I clicked around 
and looked at 5 different pages, what IS this site about, this is despite 
PayPal buttons all over the place.) Many Flash only sites fall into this same 
category of unusable and annoying websites just like the worst examples of a 
FrontPage site.

On the other hand I also know sites that if you would never know were created 
in FrontPage that have clean, elegant and valid code that use CSS for 
presentation. The pages are checked in a variety of browsers and work cross 
platform. The people who created them use FrontPage for its site management 
features and don't have generator or program id meta tags.

I'll bet your client uses IE and only IE on Windows to view her sites. Maybe 
the best thing you can do is to stick with the bgsound onload. That way those 
of us using a better browser (FF, and even IE 7 for example) won't have to 
listen to it. g

Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP FrontPage
http://by-expression.com
Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com
Aug. 20th session Expression Web Designer and Intro CSS


-Original Message-
From: 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 in FP.  

The unfortunate thing is I don't know Flash but would like to learn.  Any good 
sites or examples I could use to do this?  I have the software just haven't 
taken the time to learn it.


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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 (which I know FP 
has) than design editors.  Since moving to .Net using VS is my tool of choice.

Nope she uses a MAC and that's why I would like it to work on there.  The sound 
works great in FF and Netscape.  

 Cheryl D Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
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 created in the late 
90s on. 

The main problem with FrontPage is also its strength, it is easy to use and 
that lets some people live their dreams of excess. Take a look at the output of 
every site builder I've ever seen and you'll see equally bad sites. I've seen 
crappy music on load, flashing animated garbage on sites that were hand coded. 
Granted not as many because it takes more time and effort but I've seen them 
just as I have on sites created in Dreamweaver.

It isn't the tool is the user. Sometimes it takes real talent and hard work to 
create a site that is as bad as some I've seen (and yes, the particular one I'm 
thinking of is a FrontPage site but the designer has gone far beyond what 
FrontPage could easily do adding babelfish translations, SEO optimization by 
large paragraphs of font size 1 keyword stuffing, incomprehensible navigation, 
comments made by people who have looked at the site include I clicked around 
and looked at 5 different pages, what IS this site about, this is despite 
PayPal buttons all over the place.) Many Flash only sites fall into this same 
category of unusable and annoying websites just like the worst examples of a 
FrontPage site.

On the other hand I also know sites that if you would never know were created 
in FrontPage that have clean, elegant and valid code that use CSS for 
presentation. The pages are checked in a variety of browsers and work cross 
platform. The people who created them use FrontPage for its site management 
features and don't have generator or program id meta tags.

I'll bet your client uses IE and only IE on Windows to view her sites. Maybe 
the best thing you can do is to stick with the bgsound onload. That way those 
of us using a better browser (FF, and even IE 7 for example) won't have to 
listen to it. g

Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP FrontPage
http://by-expression.com
Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com
Aug. 20th session Expression Web Designer and Intro CSS


-Original Message-
From: 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 in FP.  

The unfortunate thing is I don't know Flash but would like to learn.  Any good 
sites or examples I could use to do this?  I have the software just haven't 
taken the time to learn it.


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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 consistent results across various
workstations) with no way to shut it off.  

If you can't, then I would go to MSDN and get the specs for embedding WMP --
and I would have AutoStart set to false... if the user wants to hear music,
he/she can turn it on.  Otherwise, you risk having prospective customers
shut you down before seeing the products/service offerings.

 I can get it to work on IE, 
 Firefox, and Netscape using 
 bgsound but it's not working 
 when viewed on a mac.  

Don't use bgsound -- this gives the user ZERO control over their experience.
Rather, embed a player.  If WMP is your default, the largest userbase will
have it installed.  Linux and many Mac users will be spared.  I believe
Quicktime may be more indigenous to Mac... so your scripting may want to
test for the OS and use QT for non-windows users.

Another option is to give the user a choice of which player they prefer.
Look at sites like MSNBC where you look at video and it asks you to choose
your preferred player and bandwidth.  Again, putting the user first... the
more choices you offer the user, the better their experience would be.

And, since I injected a bit of opinion there, I will close with the Dennis
Miller disclaimer:  That's just my opinion... I may be wrong.

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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 vsn.

Hope that helps.

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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 trial
version and if you like, upgrade to the registered vsn.

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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.

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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 trial 
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[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 src=music/heart.mp3 LOOP=false');
}
else {
document.write('embed type=application/x-mplayer2 
pluginspage=http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/; Name=MediaPlayer 
src=music/heart.mp3 AutoStart=true ShowStatusBar=0 ShowControls=0 
ShowDisplay=0 volume=1 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 loop=infinitebr');
}

That's the script I'm using???  Do I need to use a different format (I'm using 
mp3) ??  

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[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 src=music/heart.mp3 LOOP=false');
}
else {
document.write('embed type=application/x-mplayer2 
pluginspage=http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/; Name=MediaPlayer 
src=music/heart.mp3 AutoStart=true ShowStatusBar=0 ShowControls=0 
ShowDisplay=0 volume=1 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 loop=infinitebr');
}

That's the script I'm using???  Do I need to use a different format (I'm using 
mp3) ??  

Thanks
Robert

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