{"id":148,"date":"2006-12-26T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/websites-sound-music\/"},"modified":"2006-12-26T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T23:37:07","slug":"websites-sound-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/websites-sound-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites, sound and music."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/sound.gif\" alt=\"websites, sound, mp3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the first things new web designers are tempted to do is add sound to a web site. <\/p>\n<p>Many times though, this is a bad idea because sound slows pages down and often times, annoys people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rules of sound on a website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If it doesn&#8217;t help the web site to communicate the message &#8211; you should not have sound.<\/li>\n<li>Give users a choice whether to listen or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like any other aspect of a website, the decision to add sound should be well thought out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; just because you like the first few seconds from Dark Side of the Moon, that doesn&#8217;t mean looping the mp3 will help your home repair website.<\/p>\n<p>But if (for example,) you had a home repair tip or two, then it would make sense to provide a few mp3&#8217;s that people could download &#8211; if they choose to. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The best two ways to add sound to a web page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Just link to mp3 files. This is the easiest way.<\/li>\n<li>Embed a Flash based mp3 player so that people can play mp3&#8217;s right in your web pages. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are other ways (Windows media, Apple Quicktime) but the above two are universal and easy to work with, for both the web designer and website visitors.<\/p>\n<p>One last point, if you use a Flash mp3 player to add sound to your website, this will prevent people from copying your mp3&#8217;s. Well, it will make it much harder.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things new web designers are tempted to do is add sound to a web site. Many times though, this is a bad idea because sound slows pages down and often times, annoys people. The rules of sound on a website: If it doesn&#8217;t help the web site to communicate the message &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}