Lesson 21 – Background Music

Now, I personally wouldn’t like having background music on my website, or any website that I may visit, because the chances are, I won’t like the music that is being played. Nevertheless, I’m sure some people would want this, so I’ll post this. Anyway, like the post before, Background is only available for IE users (I believe), but I’m not very clear on the subject, so I may be wrong. My coding hopefully won’t be wrong, but I suggest you do a Google search for some extra help, after reading this post. Here’s the code for it (note – it may be wrong):

<bgsound src=”yourmusicfile.mp3″ loop=’infinite’>

• There is no CSS code for background music, so you will just have to make do with a HTML one. Still, at least it’s a short one!
• I believe it can be almost any format, but you will need to host the file on an internet site. I can’t really help you with this, but I’m sure that another Google search can.
• And finally, the “loop=’infinite’” part, means that your background music will just be constantly repeated until the person leaves the page.  Just remove it, and your music will only play once. Simple.

That is it for now. I hope this post has helped you, as I have told you all that I know about this subject (which isn’t really much). And, to add to that, this is the end of the body section. I shall be moving on to other things now, which I haven’t decided yet. Bye-bye!

Lesson 20 – Formatting the Scrollbar

Firstly, I’m sorry it took ages for the next post to be written. Firstly, I just haven’t been finding the time to go on the computer with my busy (*cough*) schedule, but it’s also taken me ages to think of what to write about next. So, eventually, I’ve decided on formatting the scrollbar. However, this isn’t essential, for the following reason:

Basically, to put it simply, all web browsers are different. So Firefox can do this, and Internet Explorer (simply shortened to IE) can do that, and formatting the scrollbar will only be seen by people using the more recent versions of IE (Internet Explorer). Still, you may as well format it, so that the people who visit your webpage, that are using IE, can enjoy it. Here is the code you need:

body { scrollbar-face-color: #000000; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #CCCCCC; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #999999; scrollbar-shadow-color: #333333; scrollbar-arrow-color: #AAAAAA; scrollbar-track-color: #BBBBBB; }

• It does seem like a lot of coding, that probably makes no sense to you whatsoever, and yes, the first time I saw this, I was completely confused, but once you know what each “scrollbar-….” is, then it’s quite simple.
• Customize the colours to whatever you like, using Hex Colours. Generally, you should give it colours to match the colour scheme of your page (ie: the background, text colours, etc).
• Still confused? I often go to this really good site, which has lots of generators for your CSS coding. Click here to go to a generator that makes the code above.

That’s all for now. I hope you enjoy the post about formatting the scrollbar. It may not be an essential part of your website, but at least it’s something you can do to make IE users extra special. Bye!