How to Put My Audio Sermons on My Church Website
As you work on your church's website, include your audio sermons on the required web pages so that the people in your congregation can easily access this material from home. Your audio files, which may be in various formats such as MP3 or WAV, are accessed and displayed on your website using HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Using the text editor included with your computer, you can put your audio sermons on your own church website with a line of HTML code.
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Access your web host and place your audio sermon file(s) in the same folder in which you have your church's web page files. Double click this folder, typically named "home"or "index," and then click an "Upload" button to select the audio file(s) on your computer. Make a note of the file's location so that you can insert it on your website.
-
2
Open your web page file in a text editor and place your cursor underneath the "<body>" tag where you want the audio sermon to appear.
-
-
3
Type in an opening "<embed>" tag, enter the location of your audio file from step 1 and then type in a closing "</embed>" element at the end. In the following example, replace the "sermon" term with your own audio file name and type in the correct file ending (extension) in place of the "mp3" word:
<embed src="http://www.yourdomain.com/sermon.mp3"></embed>This code inserts the sermon on your web page and also displays the content inside of a player that contains controls, such as "play" and "pause," to allow your visitors to conveniently listen to your file.
-
4
Enter the term "autostart" inside the "<embed>" tag and then type in the word "false" after this entry so that the sermon does not begin automatically when the page loads. Enter number values after the terms "height" and "width" to specify the dimensions of your player. To illustrate:
<embed src="http://www.yourdomain.com/sermon.mp3" autostart="false" height="42" width="300"></embed> -
5
Save your document and place it on your web host to publish the sermon on your website.
-
1
References
Resources
- Photo Credit church. Entrance of a church image by L. Shat from Fotolia.com
