Summer Institute For The Gifted
Classes taught by Maureen L Greenbaum
Drew University
June 30 - July 20, 2002

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Inserting Music/Sound in a Web Page

First find musicc you like.  Use a search engine or check out sumware suggestions.

For Trellix web sites:

  • right click on the hyperlink the produces the music you like.

  • select "Save Target"

  • put it in My Document My Music with a good name (meaningful and no spaces)

  • edit you Trellix web site

  • select web gems, multimedia

  • upload the music you saved to your hard disk

  • select continuous or one time play

  • move it near the top so you visit can adjust volume etc.

For FrontPage:

  • right click on the hyperlink the produces the music you like.

  • select Properties

  • highlight the entire URL fro http:// to .mid

  • copy to the clipboard

  • in FrontPage select Import from the File menu, then "from the web", then  paste the URL, enter and enter agreeing to everything

  • now for a fast but uncool way use File menu Properties Background sound, Browse and select your file.  This will produce <BGSOUND> in the HTML, which your visitor will not be able to shut off nor control

  • the much superior way is to use <embed>

    <embed src="bgsound.mid" hidden="true" autostart="true" loop="1">
    <noembed>Your browser doesn't support EMBED, but you can still listen to the background sound of this page by<a href="bgsound.mid"> clicking here.</a></noembed>

    which is explained