save the audio file itself as rm the pointer file is ram the html is "Enable Recording" checked. Then it will ask you for your email address and zip code. In the next section it will give you the option to "Record From File", "Record From Media Device" or "Live Broadcast". For our purpose you will want to check "Record From Media Device". After you click "OK" you will be asked if you want to "Capture Audio" or "Capture Video". You want to check "Capture Audio" and make sure "Capture Video" is unchecked. Now you need to give your file a name, a description and keywords so it will be indexed properly. Let's call it "Welcome To My Site". Type that in where it says "Title" and type your name in where it says "Author". Where it says "Copyright" you want to have your name, the name of your company or some other name that will be legally recognized as belonging to you along with the copyright symbol and year that are already provided. Now type in a description. This can be a description of your message or a description of your site. Now type in the keywords. These are just a description without all the nonsense words. For example, if your site is about children your description could be something like "Children are our future, come find out more about taking care of them". Your keywords could be "children kids toys food diapers bottles". Next you will be asked about file type. This is really up to you. It depends on what kind of server you are going to place this file on. Then they will ask you for your target audience. I recommend checking "28K Modem" so that even people with a slow connection can hear it. Now you will be asked for the audio format. Since we are recording a message you should check "Voice Only" unless you intend to have background music in which case you will want to check "Voice with Background Music". Lastly you will need to give it a file name and tell the program where you want to put it on your computer. This may already be chosen for you but you can easily change it if you want to. The next thing you will need to do is to create a file called a pointer file. This file will have the extension .ram and will "point" to the audio file you are going to place on your page. To create this pointer file you need to go into your text editor and open a blank file. Save this file with the same name you called your audio file except that you are giving it an .ram extension instead of an .rm extensions like your audio file has. Inside this file you will only put one thing, the address where your audio file will be after you upload it to your site. Now take out the http:// and replace it with pnm:// . For example, if your audio file's address is http://www.geocities.com/myplace/audiofile.rm then you will use pnm://www.geocities.com/myplace/audiofile.rm . This will be the only thing in this .ram file. Do not use HTML! Now you need to upload these files to your site. The files you are uploading are your picture, the audio file (.rm), and the pointer file (.ram). Once you have these three files uploaded you are ready to add the audio to your page. Add HTML This is the easy part. All the hard work is behind you and you are now ready to finally add the audio file to your Web page. Soon your visitors will be able to hear your voice and your message to them or the music you have recorded. Find the place on your page where you want to add your sound file (it should be within the tags). To make sure people see it I recommend putting it at the top of the page somewhere unless the file is specific to something you are doing further down the page. Now you will create a link to the Pathway of One Shortcut.ram file that you created. You will not create a link to the file itself, that's what the Pathway of One Shortcut.ram file is for. If you did that the music would play uninvited. You can do this if you really want to, it's your page, but you do risk alienating your viewers. Using the site address example we used before this would be what you would add to your code: