How to Insert Background Sounds and Colors in Yahoo Sitebuilder

Insert Background Sounds and Colors with Yahoo! Sitebuilder.

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Website design can be a very complex process if you have to learn HTML and JavaScript coding. But there are ways that users can build their own custom websites without having any knowledge of programming code. As the demand for websites has increased over the past two decades, many companies have released very user-friendly software applications that allow anybody to easily create their own professional website, simply by using a drag-and-drop interface like Yahoo! Sitebuilder.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Yahoo! Sitebuilder
Audio clip

Step1

Open the application. You will need to left-click on the application icon in order to open the program. You can get a free copy of this program by clicking on the appropriate link in the Resources section below.

Step2

Load the website and pages that you wish to work on. To open the website you were working on, left-click on the “File” tab on the command bar and scroll to “Open Site.” Select the desire site and click “Open.”

Step3

Access an audio clip saved in .WAV or MP3 format. To insert a background sound click on the “Insert” tab on the command bar; a submenu will open. Scroll to “Insert Background Sound” and left-click; a file browser box will open. Browse to the desired audio file and click “Insert.”.An icon will appear in the Page Elements command bar at the bottom of the application interface. You can remove this background sound at any time by left-clicking on the icon in the Page Elements command bar and then clicking the “Delete” button.

Step4

Change the color of the background. To change or insert a new one, scroll to the “Insert” tab on the command bar and select “Background.” A "Choose Background Properties" box will open. Browse to the file of background you already have or click on the Background Color box and a color palette will open.

Step5

Select the desired color from the palette and click “OK”; then click “OK” on the background color box and the color will be implemented. You can remove this background color at any time by simply left-clicking on the icon in the Page Elements command bar and then clicking the “Delete” button.

Tips & Warnings

Trim down your audio file so that it is not greater than 20 to 30 seconds in length, otherwise the page may take too long to load when live.
Always test your website by using the hotkey F12 to see what it will like when published, prior to actually publishing the website.