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- Nuno Santiago
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How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Brave Rocketeers,
  
  i'm new at building websites based on Joomla!, but a bit more experienced at building websites.
  
  Every time i make a website that has soundtrack, i use a double frame frameset to load the audio content in one frame, and the navigation contents in the other.
  
  How is it possible, with Joomla and BentoBox, to have a soundtrack that doesn't reloads every time the user navigates to another page?
  
  Anyone has some ideas?
  
  Best regards
- Nuno Santiago
  www.pct.com.pt
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- Bob Ateah
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Nuno Santiago wrote:
  Anyone has some ideas?
  
  Yup, do not autoplay a soundtrack.
  
  Give users a choice to play a soundtrack, fine, but autoplaying a soundtrack on a site is so 1999 to me - no offense intended.
  
  Cheers!
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- Nuno Santiago
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Ok, it's an opinion i respect.
  
  But what is your solution to the reload/restart after each page change? Launch the player in a pop up? Use a frameset?
  
  I don't enjoy neither. Is there any other?
  
  Best regards
- Nuno Santiago
  www.pct.com.pt
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago

Well, I suppose you can use a 0 px frame in a 2 frames frameset, where one contains the soundtrack and the other one contains your Joomla site. Something like:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<meta name='Description' content='description'><meta name='Keywords' content='keywords>
</head>
<FRAMESET rows='0,100%' FRAMEBORDER='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0'>
<FRAME SRC='http://www.yourdomain.ext/soundtrack.html' NAME='top' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' NORESIZE SCROLLING='NO'>
<FRAME SRC='http://www.yourdomain.ext/joomlasitedir' NAME='bottom' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' NORESIZE SCROLLING='YES'>
<noframes>
<body></body>
</noframes></FRAMESET></html>

Last Edit: 17 years 3 months ago by Max Miecchi.
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- Nuno Santiago
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- MediaWorks wrote:
  Well, I suppose you can use a 0 px frame in a 2 frames frameset, where one contains the soundtrack and the other one contains your Joomla site.
  
  And how would you do it? Would you create the frameset in a index.html file, and then change the server default page?
  
  Can you tell me how, in a apache PHP enabled server, you can force a website to start with a index.html, when you have side by side the index.php from the joomla structure?
  
  So many questions. I'm very curious, or too ignorant, i never can tell!
  
  I thank you your time.
  
  Best regards
- Nuno Santiago
  www.pct.com.pt
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- Max Miecchi
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- MediaWorks
Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- In this case you should call the page index.html and install your Joomla! site in a subfolder.
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- Nuno Santiago
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Of course, that's the simplest way.
  
  I should've done it before finishing the website.
  
  But is a good clue to further projects.
  
  Thanks
- Nuno Santiago
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- Max Miecchi
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- MediaWorks
Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- You can easily move your existing Joomla site to a subfolder. You will not have any database worries, no need to export/import the DB. Simply move all the files using FTP and update the paths in config.php.
- Last Edit: 17 years 3 months ago by Max Miecchi.
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- Max Miecchi
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- MediaWorks
Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Another option: put the soundtrack code in a custom module that you will use only (for example) at the home page, collapsing it in the other pages. In this way, you could also assign different soundtracks to different sections of your site.
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- Bob Ateah
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Re: How to avoid the soundtrack to reload every new page?

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- MediaWorks wrote:
  Another option: put the soundtrack code in a custom module that you will use only (for example) at the home page, collapsing it in the other pages. In this way, you could also assign different soundtracks to different sections of your site.
  
  That sounds like the solution.
  
  Good luck!
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