Now that you’ve learned how to work with static images, the natural next step is to work with multimedia. The term multimedia encompasses everything we see and hear on a web page: audio, video, and animation, as well as static images and text. In this section, you won’t learn how to create any particular audio, video, or animation, but you will learn how to include such files in your site, through either linking or embedding the content.

Remember, though, that not every user has devices that will play your media type, nor do all users have broadband Internet connections which allow these large files to transfer quickly. Always warn your visitors that the links they click will take them to multimedia files and offer them the choice to view or listen to the content. Don’t force the files upon them!

Creating multimedia of any kind can be a challenging and complicated task. If you’re planning to create your own content from scratch, you’ll need far more than this lesson to become the next cracker jack multimedia developer. After you have some content, however, this section will show you how to place your new creations into your web pages. For those of us who are artistically challenged, several alternative ways to obtain useful multimedia assets are available. Aside from the obvious (such as hiring an artist), here are a few suggestions:
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