Daughter's homework assignment:
www.jackson8.com/sarah/cowboy

She's using
<bgsound src="mysong.mid" loop="1">

for the music (on each page) but it's reloading on every page. We'd like it to load, and play, when going to the site...then continue playing no matter what link is navigated to.

How do we do that?

Thanks!!

Rick.

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LTheobald

Easiest way - use frames. Have two horizontal frames. One for the title, the links and the sound file, one for the contents of the page shown when you click on the links.

That way, when you click on a link, it just reloads the lower frame, keeping the sound running. Here's W3Schools page on frames. Give me a shout if you need some help Rick

RickJ

Thanks, LT.

If it were my project, I'd ask you for more detail, but since it's my daughter's homework, I'll have to point her to the Dreamweaver Manual. I've never done frames - as the user side of me just doesn't like them.

Thanks for pointing us in the right direction!

LTheobald

I'm not a fan of frames either. There's better ways of doing things.

Those tend to me complicated though so I thought frames would be the way to go.

RickJ

Actually, I'm now thinking of a "shortcut" since it's just a homework assignment:
I'm thinking to remove the
<bgsound src="mysong.mid" loop="1">
from all pages but the home page, then have the links from the homepage open in a new window...so that the homepage stays open in the background.

I'm playing with it right now...

RickJ

Ok, done. I definately like it better this way - in IE: www.jackson8.com/sarah/cowboy

...but I see now that it does not work in FF. I'm pretty sure they're using IE at her school...but shouldn't that code work in FF too?

ScottGem

Just my 2 cents but I do not like pages that play sounds without my permission. I will, generally, immediately click off them. People access pages from work, late at night etc. Having unwanted or unexpected sounds blaring from your speakers at inopportune moments can cause problems.

RickJ

Actually, me too. If music assaults me, I either run away or run for the off button.

This is a homework assignment with the goal being to "illuminate", and show your feelings about, a poem or song lyrics.

ScottGem

Does the assignment SPECIFY that music should load automatically. Can't she put a button to start playing the music?

RickJ

No. The students are given pretty much free reign to show and say what they want.

If it were a computer class, I'd be more picky, but in this case she wants the music so we're going with it.