Adding Sound to a Web Page

 

Create a Sound File

  1. Open the SimpleSound application program. Open Sherlock and search for this program if needed.
  2. Click on Sound > Music Quality.
  3. Go to File > New.
  4. Click on the record button and begin talking or singing.
  5. Click on the save button when finished. Name the file and place it in your images folder. Click save again.
  6. Convert this file to a the Windows Wav or Quicktime Formats. Open SoundApp which is located in IT Classes.
  7. Go the menu bar at the top of the screen and choose File > Convert. At the bottom of the dialog box change the ‘Convert to:’ to ‘Windows WAVE.’ Find your file (like ‘hello’ and select ‘Open.’Note the name on the folder you are saving this in - ‘SoundApp Converted ƒ’ or something like that. You will need to delete this folder in just a second. All we want is the converted sound inside the folder. Select ‘Save.’ It has now been converted.
  8. Quit the SoundApp program.
  9. Get the .wav file out of the folder and drag it to the images folder.
  10. Delete the SoundApp Converted ƒ folder.
  11. Insert this wav file onto your web page.

Place these three files in your images folder

Name

 URL Source
Sound barneyburp.wav https://www.angelfire.com/nc/burnz/sounds.html
speakericon.gif http://www.allseasonclipart.com/music.htm
barney.gif http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3045/factfile.html

Adding Sound to a WebPage

  1. Create or locate a .wav file on the internet and place them in your images file. For this example, download the barneyburp.wav, speakericon.gif and the barney.gif to your images folder.
  2. Insert barney.gif on your webpage. We want to link the sound to the barney.gif. However, to make sure that people know there is a sound associated with this file, insert the speaker icon next to barney.
  3. Click once on barney.gif to select it.
  4. Click on the folder next to the Link window in the Properties Palette and navigate to the images folder and double click on the barneyburp.wav file.
  5. Click anywhere on the page.
  6. Press Command (Cntl) + S to save your work.
  7. Upload your web page and .wav file to your Internet server.
  8. To hear the sound, users may have to have a plugin like Quicktime in their browser. It may work just fine in newer browsers.