Question about website making

[ToJ | FoGGy oX]

Ok I dont know if this makes since but w/e. I'm making a website for my friends band and I was wondering if anyone knows how to add a link so that when you click on it the file opens in like windows media player or something like that. Like you know when you go to MP3.COM and you click the song that you want and it opens in WMP? That's what i'm askin about. If anyone knows what i am talkin about please respond.

 

[rizz]

Im not entirely sure but i think its an automatic winXP thing. You can set whether it downloads or opens or opens in browser. There may be some code to let it stream but i dunno much about coding so....

 

[Zealot]

wouldn't you just put make it like a link?

<a href=ravleravle.wav>ravle ravle blah blah </a>

?

 

[Kidan]

yup, if you just want to play it on a click in a 3rd party player (such as winamp) just make a standard link with <a href="mysong.mp3">Listen</a>

It's only when you want the music to play automatically without launching a 3rd party player (i.e. using IE to play the sound) that there is a special tag

<embed src="mysong.wav" autostart=1 loop=0 height=10 width=5>

 

[rizz]

thats the monkey

 

[ToJ | FoGGy oX]

Yeah im just as confused as before. If anyone knows (Kidan) please write me on aim so that we can talk one on one about this so that it will come more clearly to me.
s/n = foggyox

 

[ToJ | FoGGy oX]

I was also wondering if anyone knows how to add special fonts to a site. Like if i donwload them how can i add those onto my site also.

 

[Flashon]

If u download a font and install it to ur comp and use it on ur website (gasp!) it'l only show that font in ur computer unless someone has that font also installed in his computer. I think there is a way to bring up a font from the web, but i hav no clue how to .. i jus recommend using Times New Roman or Arial... etc.

 

[Kidan]

or make all your text as an image

 

[Plankeye]

IE supports it, but support from other browsers is sketchy at best.  I would suggest sticking to common fonts or using the following in your style sheets:

P {font-face: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica;}

You could specify a font that someone might not have using this same syntax and if they don't have it, they would always fall back on one of the other fonts specified in the list.