My music has moved my page down.

CHill · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 09:57 AM

Hello everybody, I am having a problem with my sites music. I uploaded a midi file and then edited the html and the music plays just like it should however my page has moved down and left a blank space above it. I followed the tutorial to the letter but it did not mention this side effect. Can anyone explain how to fix it? I just want to play one midi when the page loads and thats it, no player or controls, any help? Thanks
PS This I believe is a case in point for my sig.

lisa · #2 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 10:04 AM

I'm loving the sig. Can you post a link to your site so we can at least look at the code. Maybe that will help us troubleshoot.

CHill · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 11:35 AM

OK, as usual I had the code in the wrong place. The link is
http://www.myzengarden.890m.com please don't laugh.

ssmorgan · #4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CHill

OK, as usual I had the code in the wrong place.

Does this mean that it's fixed? or were you referring to something else?

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHill

please don't laugh.

If someone does, he/she does not belong in here! So never worry about that

TechieGuy · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 12:58 PM

We don't laugh at anyone's accomplishments.

I have visited your site and noticed that the background and images to the right are rather large. Yoou may want to look into shrinking down the file sizes.

CHill · #6 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 07:19 PM

I was really nervous about letting anyone see my site. I went on a trip to Santa Cruz, Cal. and I saw some Zen Gardens so after quite a bit of reading I began making them myself and when I enlisted the help of a few real craftspeople I got the idea to sell them on the web. I have no money so I am learning to build the site as I go and in the process I have learned that I love to build websites far more than Zen Gardens. I was also afraid of my idea getting boosted but after reading a few posts in this forum I feel a little better about that. You all seem to be very caring, giving people and the Creator would not have put me here unless there was a reason.
TechieGuy, thank you for taking the time and visiting my site. I think you are talking about image optimization? I am looking for a good free app to do this
ssmorgan, in answer to your question, yes it, (the sound problem) is fixed. However I still am looking for public domain midi files or other file types that will work with that html code edit. I tried flash and it sounded all garbled and mp3 never played at all. I would like to know what file types load fast like midi?
Lisa, I am very greatful for your response. Now I can say someone other than myself has visited my site. I hope to hear from you again, chris

nixwebo · #7 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 06:24 PM

I love the site, and I love zen gardens you may be getting an order from me soon!

If I may critique jut one thing, the speed of the scrolling text at the top if a little fast to read, or at least is is on my computer, I am using firefox. You other guys see the same, or is it just me?

TechieGuy · #8 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 06:49 PM

I have optimized your background image to make it smaller for you.

The original size was about 1.8MB and the optimized size is 130KB.

If you don't like the new image I can always adjust the compression, but the image will be larger.

You can get the image here: New Background Image.

CHill · #9 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 10:38 PM

I want to thank you, TechieGuy for compressing that image. I put it up and noticed a major improvement right away. It had such a profound effect that I put all the images on a flash drive and gave them to another friend so he could compress them all! I have been checking out your site, nixwebo and I downloaded WebCEO and am learning how to use it. This is all new to me so there is a lot to digest. I feel like that guy in the desert who just stumbled into an oasis. I'm drinking slow but it's so hard. Well I am going to work so forgive me if I don't respond quickly and thank you thank you thank you
chris
ps, nixwebo, that banner works ok in IE7 and Opera (it is supposed to load and stop) but when I tried it in the mozilla browsers, it just keeps scrolling away so I figured 2 out of 3 wasn't too bad