Can I Play Sound/ Music For Customers While They Browse My Site?

[Maynards]

I use the internet to do allot of buying and if I hear music on the site I usually find another site.

[strelitzia]

Don't do it

First thing i do when i get a site that plays music is hit the back button and go elsewhere.

[RescoCCC]

Ditto what the others have said.

When I built my first site back in 1997, I though music would be cool. Now, when I go to the wayback machine and look at the site in their archives I can't help but laugh at myself. That was just one of the many lame aspects to my early efforts.

[niccol]

How long would it be before that retro feel became cool again?

Not yet, I guess.....

Let's all start using comic sans again too. Oh, and blink, that was cool. What about a cool splash page with music, comic sans and some blinking text that takes several minutes to load and has no way to sidestep it?

Hands up who hasn't committed a crime against sensibility at some point.

[joejoejoe]

What about a cool splash page with music, comic sans and some blinking text that takes several minutes to load and has no way to sidestep it?

If my first site could walk you'da seen it stepping down the street in platform heels, bell-bottoms and a disco collar with a 3 foot long boom-box hoisted up on its shoulder. How YOU doin? I chased every fad out there. Then google came along and I saw that plain white background with the simple search box and realized I'd been led astray by all the bling. Now I like it simple.

[RescoCCC]

Oh, and blink, that was cool.

I used blinking text. And scrolling text. And, a nice big Link Exchange banner. And, ALL kinds of little icons. But, in my defense, I sucked at this stuff.

[DrByte]

Hands up who hasn't committed a crime against sensibility at some point.

Haha, how true!

[fairestcape]

I used to think that FRAMES were the coolest idea ever. I just loved having scrollbars all over the screen, and give the impression that you have a static sidebar, and a dynamic content area.

I only grew out of using them in 1995.

As the precursor to most CMS platforms, I suppose it was useful in its time.