But How Do I Find the Graphics I Need?

Here are some suggestions for finding graphics to change:

REMEMBER THE COPYRIGHTS!

To save a picture to disk, right click on the image>save image as… and save it as something you can remember.

Photos are more fun then clip-art

Have something particular in mind. If you want a snowboarder, then in a search engine type: photo snowboard Big Air

Try photo contest sites, these often have great photos to change

Scan photos in of yourself, or use a digital camera

Morph and Torture photos of celebrities/politicians

Public Domain is your best friend

Interchange your morphed graphics, and other people’s graphics.

To keep the file-sizes small for faster uploading:

1. Save images that are fast uploading when you see them on other people’s web sites.

2. For images that have a see-through background save in gif and for images that have a solid background, save in jpg (jpeg) format. This is your best rule of thumb.

3. If your graphic editor has a “reduce file size” option, use it!

Open Netscape Composer.

On the tool bar go to Format>Page Colors and Properties. Under "Background Image" click "choose file".

Look for the filename of the image that you downloaded. If you can't find it, click here.

Highlight the filename, and click "open".

Click "OK".

Wow!

(You may not want a design pattern for your background. Sometimes a single color looks real sharp, and lets the other graphics stand out. U decide)

Retrieve your images by clicking on the "image" button on the Composer toolbar. Follow step 4-6.

Your off on a roll now, do you want to continue?

Sure, I'm ready to go...

Music

There are several ways you can incorporate music into your web site:

MIDI

(Musical Incompetence, Digital Idiocy)

Yeah, you’ve heard it, that funky blaring crud that comes through your speakers. Pretty 20^th century. But here’s the good news: MIDI has come a long way since “Pacman” arcade sounds. The problem is, you will visit sites that either leave out the MIDI because of it’s former incompetence, or people who have not changed to the better sound quality of MIDI, and still play it loud. You can lead the way in starting the new MIDI revolution, go ahead, break the rules, and stick the cool MIDI grooves into your web site.

To download a midi file off these sites, you simply click on the link, and choose “save link as…”

Here are some suggested sites to download MIDI files, and don’t forget to give the creator credit!

J0rdAn suggests:

Maegeek suggests: CPR MIDI

http://www2.bonet.co.id/cpr/

Jenn1fEr suggests:

If you are looking for a particular song, or a particular type of music look on a search engine. A sample search might be:

By Yon Bonnie Banks MIDI music

Or:

Jazz MIDI music

Quality is best, if you can’t find a decent midi file, forget it.

You can also use wav files. These are often larger and take longer to load.

Once you find your file, go to the page where you want the music.

Now we are going to insert a little thing my dog and me call JavaScript.

If you want the music to begin automatically…

1. Highlight the following code:

2. While highlighted hold down “Ctrl C”

3. Choose Insert>HTML Tag

4. In the HTML Tag field press “Ctrl V”, Then edit the “urmidifile.mid” by exchanging the file name of your midi file, and then add the file extension .mid

5. This will paste the code directly into your web site, it will appear as a funny yellow object, that means it worked correctly.

6. Now, choose the image button on the toolbar>Choose File

7. In the “files type” select “all files”.

8. Open your midi file. This will appear as a broken image, stick it at the bottom corner of your page. When uploading the page, it will also upload the midi file. Then you can delete the image, and re-upload the page, this tricks the server into allowing irregular file types to be uploaded.

Remember the midi filename is case sensitive, and the file extension is “.mid” not “.midi”.

This code will start your song automatically. If you want the song to loop, then your code will look like this:

This was my first code modification.

-Maegeek

If you want the “midi jukebox” appearance, highlight the following code and then repeat steps 2-5.

NOTE: You will not be able to preview the music until the file is uploaded to the server, so don’t sweat it. This happens with all “object oriented codes”. For more about this look under the Code Protocol section.

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