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Re: [CW][OT-FUN] sound tracks (was: Casting Castle World)
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:08:10 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > Pawel Nazarewicz wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, should I put bkgound music on my site, or would that be annoying?
> > >
> > > If the person viewing can control it, then it may be good for the mood, but
> > > if they cannot, forget it;)
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> > Gotta go with Pawel and James on this one! BG music should be controllable • by
> > the viewer in case they don't *want* music for some reason.
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> I HIGHLY agree... on an HTML note, I find that you can always tell who's the
> newbie web programmer because they often try to use all the cool tricks they
> can think of: midi files, animated gifs, java applets, funky frame layouts,
> etc...
Yeah, I noticed that too... which is why, even though I'm a HTML 'newbie', I
try not to use these. In my page (1) I don't have any of these, nor on other
(trail) pages I ever made. Except for the first one, which was in a computer
class... that was the blinking text thingie. Our whole class loved it, but our
teacher warned us never to use that ;)
> ll these are really neat, but if not used well, or if not used
> sparingly, they make the page look silly and quite unprofessional. Not to
> mention that it takes up download time. If a page has midi, loads of animated
> gifs, flashing text, etc., that's the usually surest way of guaranteeing that
> I
> won't go back to the site of my own free will. But if you want to put music on
> the page, DEFINITELY make it user controlled-- don't assume they want to hear
> anything until they tell you so.
OK. I'm gonna make a test page soon, with music on/off capabilities... I'll
post it when it's ready.
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> Anyway, that's my $.02
Thanks!
-Shiri
(1) <plug> http://www.geocities.com/shiri_lego/ </plug>
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| (...) I HIGHLY agree... on an HTML note, I find that you can always tell who's the newbie web programmer because they often try to use all the cool tricks they can think of: midi files, animated gifs, java applets, funky frame layouts, etc... All (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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