Sandra Smith-Gordon's Basic Instructions for Dreamweaver

Sound

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How to put sound on your page - Here are two methods

 

First have your sound file ready in a folder within your site root folder.

If you put sound on a page consider whether it is appropriate to the site and whether it will enhance, or detract from, the site visitor's experience.

 

Method One:

Choose Insert from top menu > Media > Plug-in Then browse to the sound file and click on Choose.

A plug-in icon appears on the page which can be resized by dragging.

You can now check in Preview to see if it works.

 

The sound controller bar appears the same size as the plug-in icon.

The default is to autoplay when the page opens and to show the sound controller

 

Some parameters to change:

controller: true or false, to show or hide

autoplay: true or false, to autoplay or play on click

loop: true or false

 

see this web site for a list of parameters and explanations of them:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html

 

To change parameters

Select the plug-in icon and on Properties Inspector bar choose Parameters

A menu box appears

In the box below the word parameter write the word for the parameter you want to change

then press keyboard tab key

This bring up a new box below the word Value, type in the word false.

When you Preview now the controller does not show.

 

Video can be inserted on your page by the same method

 

example of sound:

chicken

 

Method Two:

Select an element on your page such as an image

In Behaviours panel, click on + sign and choose Play Sound from pop-up menu (it might be in Deprecated list)

Also choose whether the sound is to play on click, mouseover, etc.

Browse to sound file and click OK when done. See example of this on Swap Images page

 

 

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