Adding Music To Your Email or Pagebuilder


   We cannot upload music midis or wavs to the Scrapbook and it is not proper to remote link to music files without permission. Otherwise, you are stealing bandwidth and costing that server money without the benefit of advertising credit. So we need to find a link friendly site for midis like Dot.mid, Lavenderxena's Free Midis or Norbert's Linkables. People like this have paid for a webhost service to allow you to link to their midi files. Try to use midi sites that are careful not to use copyrighted midis. I know that Dot.mid and Lavenderxena sequence their own midis and are copyright free as far as the sequencer is concerned. This has been the latest battle in the courts over copyrights of sequenced midis. Those affected are midi sites and not single users, as far as I know.

When you find a song that you like, click on that song title. When the song is playing, press the goto key. Press the "show last" button on the goto key. Press cmd and A at the same time. Then, press cmd and C at the same time.



Now, go to your email signature box or Pagebuilder and add a text box. Put your cursor, where you want to add the midi code and press cmd and V to paste the midi URL. Put that midi URL in with this code:

<bgsound src="URL of midi or wav" loop="-1">

The attribute loop="-1" means that the music will play indefinitely. You can put in any specific number of repetitions that you want like loop=20.

OR

You can use these codes:

<embed src="URL of midi or wav" autostart="true" loop="40">

Using 40 for the number of repetitions is arbitrary, since there is no code for infinite with the embed tag. You can use any number that you want instead of 40.

If you want to make sure that almost all computer users can hear your music, use this crossbrowser code that combines the two codes above.

<embed src="URL of midi or wav" hidden="true" autostart="true" loop="number of repetitions"> <noembed> <bgsound src="URL of midi or wav" loop="number of repetitions"></noembed>


Adding Images To Email And Pagebuilder



You should first activate your scrapbook, by making a Pagebuilder webpage. Go to your Webtv main page. Select Community. Select Pagebuilder. Read the terms of service and if you agree, click on "I agree". You will be taken to your Pagebuilder index. Choose "create". Select a page style. Now, your scrapbook is activated. Old classic users also need to publish this webpage.

      Now, you are ready to upload images to your scrapbook. You will need to find an image that you want to upload. I will concentrate on getting images from a webpage. For other sources of images, see Beth Candy's All I Know About Uploading.

When you find the image that you want, first make sure that it's ok to use this image. If no permission is granted on the webpage, itself, you will need to write the webmaster and ask for permission.

Once, permission is granted, you may then proceed to upload the image to your scrapbook. You need to retrieve the URL from the webpage that the image is on or from the isolated image. To do this, go to the webpage or image. Press the Goto Key. Then, press the "show current" on the Goto Key. Press Cmd and A the same time. Next, press Cmd and C at the same time. Now go to a scrapbook uploader like Fila Morgan's Uploader, if you can isolate the image by itself or Webscissors if you need to extract and upload the image from a webpage. In the text input box, press Cmd and V at the same time to paste the URL. Press the button below. Now, you will see a list of images from that webpage and their URL's above them. Click on the URL that corresponds to the picture to upload it to your scrapbook.

   So, now that you have the picture in your scrapbook. Now, how do you get the picture on your webpage? Go your Pagebuilder webpage editor by going to Webtv's home page. Then, select Community. Now, select Pagebuilder. Select the webpage that you want to work on. Select Change Page to get to the editor. Now, you are in the edit mode of your webpage. Choose add an item. Choose pictures You will be taken to your scrapbook. Click on the picture that you want to add. Press done.

   To add an image to your email, you will need to find the scrapbook URL and put in a direct link to that image in your signature box. To get the scrapbook URL, to an image, you will need to put that image on a separate webpage and publish it. Now, take the URL of that webpage to Hyperfiles and click on the Hyperfiles Transloader link. Put your webpage URL in the text input box and press return. You should see all the images from that page with the URL's from that page below them. Put your cursor in inside the textarea with the image URL that you want to use. Press cmd and A at the same time to highlight. Then, press cmd and C at the same time to copy.

Now, you're ready to add your image code to your email signature. To do this, go to your email mailing list. Press on the settings link above the mailing list. Then, choose signature. Now, put in <html> at the very beginning of your signature box, if you don't have one in there already.

Put that image URL in with this code:

<img src="URL of Image">

It is also important to add height and width dimensions to your image code for faster loading. You can find your image size by going directly to from an image to Gest's Image Sizer or go back to the Hyperfiles page and click on the edit image page. Hyperfiles gives the dimensions (called geometry here) by width times height So, once you find the height and the width, you code would look like this:

<img src="URL of Image" height="?" width="?">

Replace the question marks with the actual height and width of your image.

You can, also, add a border to your picture by adding the border attribute.

border="?"

You may want to put in alternate words for your pictures as some computers can't see images. We use the alt attribute for that.

alt="text describing image"

So, to add these attributes to our image code, it would look like this:

<img src="URL of image" height="?" width="?" border="2" alt="text describing image">

Replace the question marks with the correct height and width. The border size can be increased or decreased as you need it to be.

  You will also need to know how to find the scrapbook URL for Pagebuilder, if you want to resize or realign your image. If you want to change the dimensions of your scrapbook URL, you can take the URL of the image to a Hyperfile's image editor Hyperfilesfor resizing.

   To have an image fill the whole page as a background, you'll need to resize it to width=544 by height=384 to fill a webpage or to width=388 by height=384 to fill an email page.

   You may want to have a clickable image. That is an image that, when clicked on, takes you to a webpage or another image. This is very similar to a regular text link, but instead of

<a href="URL of webpage">Webpage Title</a>, we use:

<a href="URL of webpage"><img src="URL of Image" height="?" width="?"></a>

or

<a href="URL of Image"><img src="URL of Image" height="?" width="?"> </a>

Replace the question marks with the actual height and width of the images.

   What if we want to reduce the size of our images use them as our clickable images to view a larger version of that image? Well, we call those thumbnail images. These can be useful for convenient links and photo albums. See, my page on Making Your Own Thumbnails for help on this subject.
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