In need of help

tlpendar2 wrote:
> Ever since I started my website I've always had music playing when you open the
> index page. Can someone check and see why this doesn't happen anymore. I know
> many of you are not disciples of music blaring at you when a web page opens but
> I think mine was in good taste. The wierd thing is, it plays in Safari but not
> in Internet Explorer. If anyone has a fix for this I will be eternally
> gratefull. The website is "Penbal.com". The question is, am I missing a plug-in
> and where can I find it. Thank you.

Many many folks feel that *any music* that starts automatically and cannot be turned off is never in good taste, regardless of the quality of the music.

On to your problem...

In IE7 and Firefox 3 I get the music playing. I see that you're using the embed tag to add sound to your page. This is a deprecated tag and some browsers, perhaps the IE that you're using, may not play the music. One thing to do might be to move to a Flash MP3 music player, as Flash is very widely supported. There are many out there, and a lot of them with start and stop buttons that can be displayed, which then allows the user to have the music or not, as well as even adjusting the volume of that music from your site. You many want to start your search here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flash+mp3+player

However I did run into a problem with your site...in Firefox 3 your main content area shows up as the code that you're using, that is it shows the HTML code for your content area. This is likely due to the fact that your file name for the content is:
http://www.penbal.com/mainframe.bak

The .bak file extension on your server is not set up to be sent out as HTML or XHTML. I checked the response headers for you page and it shows that your mainframe.bak file is being served as text/plain. And browsers are *supposed* to display that as text, not render it as HTML. IE7 for me *guesses* that the content is actually the HTML that you intend it to be and renders the code as HTML for you. The solution to this would be to use a standard file extension for HTML pages, such as .htm, or .html like you wowowee_mainframe.htm page does (which shows up properly for me).

FYI: This forum is focused on Dreamweaver extensions, not built in functionality or general web development questions. You should post questions like this in the Dreamweaver general forum:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=12&catid=189&entercat=y


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