Wednesday, 11 May 2005 - 10:28 PM EDT

I think it is your system doing it.

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 7:24 AM EDT

Just a little quick tip when adding music. Most people have their mp3 playing while surfing. And it would interfer (spelling) with their music and may have speakers up loudly. I've found web pages that don't have a stop button for their music, rather annoying. It takes awhile for dial up users to download and the stop button is a big blus :)

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 8:47 AM EDT

Counter attack to what Floridagal said. Agreed, most people are listening to music while surfing, however, you don't need a "stop" button.

A simple keystroke on the "Esc" key will get it to stop, in most cases, and in most browsers. As much as you "like" the idea of having a song play on your webpage, the "embedded" mp3s can get to be a bit 'much', if you know what I mean.

Mike
Customer Support - Lycos Webhosting

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 10:07 AM EDT

Your file plays fine here with no pauses or skips. If you happen to have a slow connection, the erratic play may have to do with interference while your image files download. If you think that's the case, try optimizing the images to make them load faster. You should be able to downsize them to 15-20 KB each.

I saw on your site that you lost some pages. If you work fast you may be able to retrieve them from googles cache of your site. I saw them there today using mt/ollgf/ as the search term. Click on the link for 'cached' under the page listing then save it to your pc.

I have to agree about adding a music controller so that music can be turned off from the page. The escape key option Mike mentioned doesn't work in my Mac Netscape browser so it may just be a Windows or IE trick. Since it doesn't work for everyone, having the controls on the page and easily accessible might be a better option.

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 6:17 PM EDT

Thank you very much for your interest. I indeed "lost" the webshell just like that, after having uploaded some pictures, index.html showed zero content. Tech support said, their server never deletes anything. After initial frustration (anger?), I looked at this as an "opportunity," and set out to rebuild the entire page. That's where we are right now.- The background music is only on when the two main pages show, but usually a person would go right on to the sub-pages, where there is no music. I'm glad the sound played for you all right, so it must be my own computer. I do have a very fast connection, though. THANKS AGAIN, Lou.

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 6:28 PM EDT

Thank you, Mike! Lou.

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 6:29 PM EDT

Thanks indeed, I appreciate all this information. Lou.

Thursday, 12 May 2005 - 6:30 PM EDT

I think so, too, since the sound seems all right on other computers. Don't know, though, what it might be. Thanks! Lou.

Friday, 13 May 2005 - 3:57 PM EDT

Thanks Mike for adding that INFO...

There were few pages that you can also use the stop button at the top but if the pages have animations, that makes everything stop... =[
Feel free to ask me for any questions. I'm ok with basic html advanced eh not so much.

Take care.