No sound autoplaying onload please
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 30, 2005
One of the most annoying things for a website to do is to have sound immediately play when you first visit the site. It’s like blinking text and very rarely, if ever, should be done on the homepage of a blog. The quickest way to make me click away from a website is to put music or sound effects — especially midi files — to play when the homepage of the site is visited.
Now when does this make sense? On pages where you tell the surfer that music will play onload, artist/band official webpages might want to play music onload. A movie/TV show official website.
These audio ads that play (via Flash) inside news articles are annoying too. So if you want to annoy and alienate your new site visitor, just make sure you add some sound that autoplays when the person comes to the homepage.
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