Background Music Issue

[Stacy]

Thanks for the suggestion! As I mentioned, I'm a 2-week novice at this stuff
so I appreciate the recommendation. I presumed just by the load time that I
had a problem and I just didn't know how to fix it. (And frankly, given the
tone of the first responders I was rather hesitant to ask another question.)
I also would like the pics to open up into a separate window (so that the
user doesn't have to use the back function and reload the page) as I think
that would be easier for folks. I'm thinking from what I've read that I
would have to have a separate link for each pic; but how would I get the
separate window? Would you agree that this is a better posture and if so,
how would I accomplish that? Thanks a million for your helpfulness!

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

If you open each in a separate window you may end up with a ton of windows
opened and the viewer still having to get back somehow. I think what you
might need is a photoalbum...don't use Frontpage's...take a look at JAlbum
and if you like it and decide to use it come back for help if you need.
JAlbum is free and uses JAVA (you'll need to install it from Sun) to
generate the albums but doesn't use JAVA to run on your web.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

Stacy,

I apologise if my response was inappropriate. I was in fact replying to the
person who replied to you saying that music shouldn't be used at all. I have
some music on this site
http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/ and I give the viewer the option to turn it
on or off with a button.

Re use of picture albums, I use Jalbum on this site
http://trevorl.mvps.org/ratec/album.html and I agree with Rob that it is a
good piece of software and fairly easy to use. I find that one has to take a
bit of care NOT to close the JAlbum page, but to reload the previous page.
This could just be the way it is constructed or something I have done wrong
In any case, the return button is present, so shouldn't cause confusion.

There are also other ways to put an album together, using JavaScript. I use
one here http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/gallery.html. To see it in action,
click on a Slideshow button. As you can see, it opens the slideshow in a
separate page which is reused for each slide. When the page is closed, the
viewer returns to the calling page.

I would be happy to give any help that I can in using either JAlbum, or the
one I put together myself (although I am not sure that it as easy for a
beginner as it should be - mea culpa).
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Trevor Lawrence
Canberra
Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org

 

[Ronx]

http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/ adds the HTTP header

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

This will over-rule whatever content type or encoding meta tags you have
in your page and the browser attempts to render the page as UTF-8. I
wish hosts would not add this HTTP header and let webmasters use their
choice of encoding.

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/ adds the HTTP header

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

This will over-rule whatever content type or encoding meta tags you have
in your page and the browser attempts to render the page as UTF-8. I wish
hosts would not add this HTTP header and let webmasters use their choice
of encoding.

Ron,

Thanks for this.

How does one know what the web server adds as a header ?

 

[Ronx]

I use the developer tools addin for FireFox, and Chris Hanscom (Veign)
has a tool at http://pageheaders.com/ that displays headers from a
server.

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (Expression)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp