How to Add a Background Sound to a Web Page With FrontPage

Entertain visitors to your page by adding background sounds. These instructions use FrontPage 2000, a Web editing program from Microsoft.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Microsoft FrontPage

1. Start FrontPage 2000 and open the appropriate web. Open the page that the background sound will be located on.

2. Go to the File menu and select Properties.

3. Click on the General tab and go to the Location bar. Click Browse.

4. Choose the Loop options and click OK.

5. To insert a sound already used in the current web, locate the sound in the window and click OK.

6. To use a sound from your hard disk, click the Select File button (it resembles a file folder with a magnifying glass). Click Browse to locate the file and choose OK.

7. To add a sound from the Internet, click the World Wide Web button (it resembles a globe with a magnifying glass), or type the URL of the file. Click OK.

8. Save the page when finished.

9. Make sure your speakers are turned on and your software supports the sound's format.

10. Preview the page by choosing Preview in Browser from the File menu. From the dialog box, choose which browser to use and what settings.

Tips & Warnings

• Background sounds start as soon as the page loads. Change the looping (repeating) properties by choosing Page Properties from the File menu and clicking on the Background tab.
• FrontPage supports a variety of sound formats, including WAV (.wav), MIDI (.midi), AIFF (.aif, .aifc and .aiff) and AU (.au and .snd).
• Search the Web for other sounds by typing "WAV" into a search engine, such as Yahoo! or Google, and visiting WAV sites. MIDI files are usually smaller than WAV files, but can sound different depending on which sound card a viewer is using.
• It's best to add sounds to the web before adding them to a page (see "How to Import a File Into a FrontPage Web"); this ensures that all necessary files are uploaded to the Web when you publish the site. (If you use a file from your hard disk, you'll have to remember to transfer it.)
• In FrontPage 97, use the Background Sound command in the Insert menu instead.
• Make sure that you upload the sound file when you upload the page to your Web server.
• Avoid using long background sounds in your Web page, since most sound files are large and make a page load more slowly. Also, people illicitly surfing the Web at work might embarrass themselves.