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IS YOUR WEB SITE UNFRIENDLY? Part 3 of 9

If you must put MIDI sound files on your page make them so that visitors have to ask to hear the file--maybe by pressing the "start" button. Apart from the fact that visitors may find the music objectionable, there's a good chance:

If you must put MIDI sound files on your page make them so that visitors have to ask to hear the file--maybe by pressing the "start" button. Apart from the fact that visitors may find the music objectionable, there's a good chance:

1 they are surfing late at night or early in the morning when other people are sleeping;

2 they are listening to the radio or a CD and will be irritated when your sound file drowns it;

3 they may even be trying to look busy during a lull at work, and the sound could alert the boss. You will be MOST unpopular.

I'm sure I'm not the only surfer who (unable to reach the "stop" button because the page is still loading) just bangs on the close window box until the page goes away. I never return.

© L A Barker Enterprises.


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