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Re: [CW][OT-FUN] sound tracks (was: Casting Castle World)
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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;)

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.

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.


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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