Adding multimedia to a page
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Written by Atila on September 22, 2008 – 10:13 pm
Having put in your text and some graphics you may still want to give your pages a little something extra, or you may have some material that you want to publish that is not suited to either text or static images. Consequently, you may want to consider adding sound or moving images to your pages.
There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this, as you’d expect. Your pages will certainly be more interesting and may well also be more informative, but may take longer to load, and if you add sound to your page in such a way that viewers have no control over it you run the risk that they will simply leave, and leave quickly, never to return!
Adding sound
There are a number of different file formats that you can use to add sound to your pages, but the two major formats are those which end in .wav or .mid. The former are often produced by recording the sound in a digital form and second by second are quite large. The latter are produced using a sound card or MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) instrument and are rather more effective in terms of file size.
