In article <6P3Qj.11862$GE1.9306@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Paul Furman <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Dudley Hanks wrote:
> >>
> >>>> http://www.geocities.com/hanks.dudley/index.html
> >>>
> >
> > Regarding the sound, it's not a musical sound-track; rather, I just
> > recorded a few introductory words that play when the page is loaded.
>
> Better to have a link or button that says:
> <a href...>listen to introductory narrative</a>
> because automatic sound on a web page is disturbing to many people.
> Although this may be an exception as it's pointed at people who might
> rather have sound.
>
> > A musical sound-track may come later.
> >
> > Take Care,
> > Dudley
> >
> >
As the best part of a big Flash animation is usually the "Skip Intro"
button, the best part of an <onload> mp3 or wav is the "Mute" button.
A suggestion for your coding: using tables is a good way to divide up
the page; however, the table definition should contain specific cell
widths based on percentage of total width, or absolute pixel size. With
no specific instruction from the page, your tables rely on the browser
to assign widths. This can run into problems because the picture of Dima
is so big. You will probably have more luck with the title in one cell
spanning the whole table, the photo of Dima in one cell directly below
also full span, then start your text below divided into however many
columns you want.
Also acquaint yourself with the table-compositor's best friend, the
non-breaking space, HTML entity: or Hex:   . Put one in each
empty cell to maintain the widths.
Or you can explore the possibility of using Flash. That gives you much
more control but some people will find it painful, and possibly your
screen reader may not be able to read it. Also, mobile web devices like
BlackBerry can't render Flash, but you can't please everyone.
Also, the Macintosh rendering engine assigns font sizes based on 72dpi
while Windows assigns based on 96dpi. Current practice advocated by the
W3 Consortium is to use cascading style sheets, which overcome these
built-in differences.
An excellent Windows HTML editor is UltraEdit
<http://www.ultraedit.com/>
actually a general purpose programmer's
editor with libraries built in for web design and programming. They have
a free trial you can download. If you use a Mac then BBEdit
<http://www.barebones.com>
is my personal favorite editor.
Hope this helps,
--k
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