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2 In the Widget dialog box, select a widget and preset (if applicable) and click OK.
You can also add a web widget to a Dreamweaver page (CS5.5 and later) by doing the following:
1 In the Widget Browser, navigate to My Widgets.
2 Select the widget you want to add.
3 Click and hold the Drag and Drop in Dreamweaver icon at the upper left corner of the Live View tab. Drag the
widget to Dreamweaver into Design view (Windows) or Design or Code view (Macintosh OS).
You cannot drag and drop the widget into Live view, but you can use Live view to test the widget once youve dropped
it into the page.
More Help topics
Adobe Widget Browser Help
Working with Spry widgets (general instructions)
Adding Sound
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the
options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see
this article.
Audio file formats
You can add sound to a web page. There are several different types of sound files and formats, including .wav, .midi,
and .mp3. Some factors to consider before deciding on a format and method for adding sound are its purpose, your
audience, file size, sound quality, and differences in browsers.
Note: Sound files are handled very differently and inconsistently by different browsers. You may want to add a sound file
to a SWF file and then embed the SWF file to improve consistency.
The following list describes the more common audio file formats along with some of the advantages and disadvantages
of each for web design.
.midi or .mid (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) This format is for instrumental music. MIDI files are supported by
many browsers and don’t require a plug-in. Although their sound quality is very good, it can vary depending on a
visitor’s sound card. A small MIDI file can provide a long sound clip. MIDI files cannot be recorded and must be
synthesized on a computer with special hardware and software.
.wav (Waveform Extension) These files have good sound quality, are supported by many browsers, and dont require a
plug-in. You can record your own WAV files from a CD, tape, microphone, and so on. However, the large file size
severely limits the length of sound clips that you can use on your web pages.
.aif (Audio Interchange File Format, or AIFF) The AIFF format, like WAV format, has good sound quality, can be played
by most browsers, and doesn’t require a plug-in; you can also record AIFF files from a CD, tape, microphone, and so
on. However, the large file size severely limits the length of sound clips that you can use on your web pages.
.mp3 (Motion Picture Experts Group Audio, or MPEG-Audio Layer-3) A compressed format that makes sound files
substantially smaller. The sound quality is very good: if an mp3 file is recorded and compressed properly, its quality can
rival that of a CD. mp3 technology lets you “stream” the file so that a visitor doesn’t have to wait for the entire file to
download before hearing it. However, the file size is larger than a Real Audio file, so an entire song could still take quite
a while to download over a typical dial-up (telephone line) modem connection. To play mp3 files, visitors must
download and install a helper application or plug-in, such as QuickTime, Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.