Best Songs for Chapter Websites?
 

Okay, so now that I've seen what type of websites you like..

Do you like songs on the website? If so, which songs are you partial to?

I personally like:
"Love Generation" - Bob Sinclair
"Everything" - Michael Bublé
"Perfect Day" - Hoku
"Better Together" - Jack Johnson

I seriously dislike any website that has music - whether you can toggle off or not. I'm usually listening to my own music, radio, etc and it gets very annoying to have a 2nd stream of music going on. Add to the fact some sites do not allow you to turn the music off or the toggle switch is buried and those sites I won't go back to - I don't care how 'good' the music is.

None! Music on websites is annoying and tacky. And so early 2000's (hey, look how cool I am, I can put music on my website).

I HATE websites with music or automatic streaming video with sound, particularly when I am at work!

None, nada, zilch. Just don't do it.

Music on websites = annoying as hell. Plus, it slows everything down and eats a ton of bandwidth. Just say no.

Ditto.

Do you think this is also the same way PNMs think? Say, you were looking at all the chapter's websites from the school you were going to attend.

Yes.
I'll use myself as an example, because I do this a lot.
Let's say I'm on campus panhellenic's website. Said website has the links to all the individual chapter's websites. I go down the list, clicking "Open in new tab" for each one. Now with all those webpages running simultaneously, it is really annoying to hear a bunch of music going all at once. Then I have to track down the page(s) that are playing the music and turn it off.

So if you REALLY want to have music on your website, have the player on there but don't put it on Autoplay. Then you can compare your website hits with your playlist hits and decide if the music is really necessary. If it's not, just go ahead and take it off because it will be taking up bandwidth.

ETA: Bandwidth is really expensive, if you didn't already know.

Exactly.

Probably. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being particularly fond of/touched by music on websites, but I have heard of a lot of people who find it totally obnoxious.

I agree with the general consensus of no music. When I was a pnm last semester, I wouldn't bother to navigate a website with music.. This was even more so if I couldn't turn it off somehow. Some people's computers can't handle the combination of music and webpages loading, so I would keep that in mind as well.

I think music is best left to recruitment videos, websites should be left to just information and pretty pictures. :)

HTH!

Not to mention, if a PNM doesn't like the song or artist it can totally turn them off to the chapter.

I think that it's the way anyone who thinks thinks.

Music on websites is very annoying.

BTW - do you have the legal rights to use those songs on chapter websites? I'm betting no. So both you and the chapter expose yourself to liability since you're not paying for the right to use those songs on your webpage.

And again, people in general HATE music on webpages. Find something else to make your designs stand out.