Welcome to the first Intermediate HTML tutorial! In this part we will be looking at the possibility of using sound withing a webpage.

The idea of using sound is deemed pointless by some people, the common belief is that it will dramatically slow the performance of a web site. This is not so - an average midi sound effect ranges from 3 - 13kb in size, and is certainly not going to cause a broadband user any problems.

So how exactly do we go about adding sound t a webpage?

There are 2 methods we are going to take a look at withing this tutorial, we will start with the easier of the two.

Remember in the basic tutorials when you learnt to make links to files?

Well the first method of adding sound is as simple as that, you place a link to a file on a webpage, and when a user clicks this link they will be taken to a new page where the sound is played!