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**shahinahmed80** · 26 December 2011, 12:45 AM

Hi everyone, this is my first post in here. I have recently bought xara web designer 7 premium, and i must say i am very impressed with it. I have just tried my hands in making my own website.

But there is one thing that is bothering me.I am trying to put a click sound on my buttons when pressed.i have converted .WAV to .SWF. Could someone be kind enough to post a tutorial on how to do this. Any help is appreciated.

I have posted a screenshot with the post.

I am going heywire over this placeholder thing.

THANK YOU TO THE KIND SOUL.

**gwpriester** · 26 December 2011, 12:55 AM

Welcome to TalkGraphics

You need some sort of script and to be honest, I am not sure if it will work as a placeholder.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I will respond with a how to do this. Though it is Christmas day and many folks are away from their computers.

Please check back.

**handrawn** · 26 December 2011, 10:20 AM

moved to web design forum [as this is a web designer 7 premium placeholder issue]

**shahinahmed80** · 26 December 2011, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

moved to web design forum [as this is a web designer 7 premium placeholder issue]

Sorry, I wasn't sure where to post. Thank you.

**gwpriester** · 26 December 2011, 05:51 PM

Not a problem. It gives Steve something to do.

I am hoping to get an answer to your question. Check back later today.

**shahinahmed80** · 26 December 2011, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Not a problem. It gives Steve something to do.

I am hoping to get an answer to your question. Check back later today.

Appreciate your reply back. Will check back later. I am hopefull that some1 could guide me on this

Thanks once again.

**Big Frank** · 26 December 2011, 10:20 PM

Sorry I haven't seen this thread earlier. I've had a chance to look at this and have a solution for you. I've done a little tutorial:

http://xaradesigner.co.uk/click_sound

Please ask me any questions you want to. I hurried the tutorial a little bit so it's likely there might be a few errors, although I hope not. I hope you find it useful and that it doesn't confuse the hell out of you!

EDIT: great - it's not working in IE although it was earlier today. I'll try and look at that tomorrow. Probably a comma missing somewhere. Works fine in Firefox

**angelize** · 26 December 2011, 11:29 PM

That's really great Frank. It works great in Chrome too

And here is a webpage (yes I know this is a flash resource site) that has a large collection of free sound effects and sound loops as .wav files, that could be handy for this. I think though that I would use sound effects sparingly, and keep the sounds soft.

**Big Frank** · 27 December 2011, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by beretgascon

EDIT: great - it's not working in IE although it was earlier today. I'll try and look at that tomorrow. Probably a comma missing somewhere. Works fine in Firefox

It does work in IE... IE9. But not IE8. IE8 has really crappy HTML5 support (which should come as no surprise). I clearly have IE9 on the laptop but IE8 on the tower which is why I thought it was an error on my part. Anyway, to find out whether the browser you are using supports the <audio> tag, click here.

**Big Frank** · 27 December 2011, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by angelize

I think though that I would use sound effects sparingly, and keep the sounds soft.

I agree whole-heartedly, frances - auto-playing sound is something a web designer should steer well clear of, although it always amazes me how many clients think this would be a "cool" thing to have on their website. I've always managed to steer them away from this, thank god