Overview
Features complete instructions on audio capture/creation, preparation, and optimizing for Web developers. Includes a developer's CD-ROM, with hundreds of dollars worth of sound clips, utilities, demo programs, interactive tutorials, sound effects, and music for use in Web pages. Provides access to the authors' Web page so you can test browser capabilities, plug-in modules, file formats, comparative efficiency, and hardware and software; and so you can get the latest updates for music sources and sound libraries. Contains an easy-to-understand explanation of the recording process, hardware and software tools, and more. Gives you a thorough explanation of licensing, contracts, and performance rights groups, with tips on how to prevent copyright infringement in cyberspace. Includes a quick reference of audio hardware and software vendors.If your Web site is silent, you've been left behind. New technologies like Shockwave and Java have transformed the formerly static Web into a multimedia playground abounding in sound, and you too can learn how to add sound effectively to your site, with the help of Web Developer's Guide to Sound and Music. Authors Helmstetter and Simpson drag Webmasters into the future of multimedia with step-by-step instructions on recording, digitizing and editing sound effects, with explanations of the recording process, and useful hardware and software tools that even a beginner can understand. There's even a discussion of licensing and contracts to avoid copyright infringement online. The companion CD-ROM includes hundreds of dollars' worth of utilities and demo programs as well as sound clips to sample and use. Make a joyful noise unto the Web with Web Developer's Guide to Sound and Music.