continuous music.

[tcserpa]

i must start this post by saying the client is always right. even when they are very silly people with silly ideas.

what they want in this case is to add background music to their site.

simple enough.

the tricky bit is that they insist that one theme loop repeatedly throughout the duration of the user's time on the site; not stopping and restarting as the user visits several pages.

and that stumps me. i have two thoughts (really three)
1. put the whole site in a two section frame, one section being teeeeny-tiny and embed the sound file there.

2. launch a pop-under window on page load and play it from there.

both solutions have their problems, but they are the best i can come up with. except for:

3. don't put music on the site.

any thoughts?

[Roy Sinclair]

I'd say put it into a popup because the first thing I'd do at such a site is close the popup because I hate things like background music/sounds on web pages. The problem with that approach though is in closing the popup automatically when the user leaves the site. The Frames soultion will also work but then you'll need a "Shut off the stupid music" button on each page for people like me.

[Kay]

My personal opinion:
I would go with the pop-up with the possibility for the user to close the window and turn of the music.
If I enter a site that won't allow for the bg music to be turned off, I'm out of there faster than I got in...
Just my 2 cents....

[tcserpa]

i completely agree. thanks for the input. the frame option could include a controller, but that would impact the overall look of the site.

my only concern is that a pop-under may be hard for some users to locate and turn off once they get annoyed by the music (which they will.)

although i'm pretty sure you can close a child window from the parent with a few lines of javascript and link...