Are you familiar with MySpace, Friendster, or Xanga? These online social websites allows you to interact with other individuals from different parts of the world. At these sites you can have a personal profile where you can place information about yourself and other stuffs of your interest. Apart from all these things, there are also sections where you can include music codes. It enables your profile to make music videos to appear in your personal profile.
You may wonder how such music codes, (which are shown in text and symbols) enables your profile to display and play the music video code of your choice, well we're going to teach you how.
Music codes, or known in web design discipline as HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) music codes, are mark-up language designed to be an important part of making a web page. In this case, your web page is your personal profile page.
It has three components:
(1) The tag, a command web browser interprets
(2) The element has an opening tag and a closing tag, and
(3) The attribute used to alter the value of the HTML elements.
You are now starting to insert your music video in your personal profile page. Before, you need to use multiple tags on inserting a video file in a particular webpage because browsers do not have a uniform standard in defining embedded media files. Your music video will be inserted into your profile with the use of the embedded tag. It is considered the standard for inserting any media file into a web page.
Next is customizing the appearance of the embedded media player. The following attributes are needed to be altered to customize your player.
The width of the media player
The height of the media player
In case you are not knowledgeable in HTML, then do not alter the codes you have downloaded in the video code site. It can cause your media player to look distorted.
Next is the functionality of the embedded player. The following attributes are usually present in the HTML code (you can alter it as long as you know how).
The auto start function, which enables the media player to play it automatically.
The loop function, which sets the media file to repeat or not.
The volume function ranging from 0-100.
Here are some things to remember when inserting your music video clip in your personal profile page.
Be careful when placing music in your page. Do not alter anything if you do not have an idea of what you are altering to.
Set the hidden attribute if your visitors do not want to stop the music.
If you want your music to play repeatedly, make sure that you set the loop attribute to true.
Start inserting music codes in your profiles. Follow the procedures on inserting and enjoy personalizing your web page.