The website's atmosphere: backgrounds, video, music and voice

The atmosphere
Backgrounds

The background is the atmosphere of your page. WAOU gives you three layers, one on top of the other:
• Site: the background shared by all pages, set once;
• Page and Page +: two layers of each page's own, to give each section its theme.

In each layer: a colour, a gradient, a photo, a slideshow, or a video. The background stays fixed while the page scrolls, or scrolls with it. A dark or light veil keeps texts readable on any photo. You set opacity, blur, black and white, framing.

The "Frame" mode. You have a decorative frame image (tiles, stone, wood)? WAOU cuts it up and fits it to every window: the corners stay whole, the edges extend, nothing is cropped or distorted. Even when the phone is turned. And the same image serves for computer and phone.

✓ Three background layers: site, page, page +
✓ Colour, gradient, photo, slideshow or video
✓ Fixed or scrolling, with a veil for readability
✓ The Frame mode, which fits every screen
✓ A background of its own for the phone if you wish

💡 Everything can be undone: you try a background, you don't like it, you remove it in one click.
The video background

Rather than a still image, a video behind your page: a moving ocean, a galloping horse, a landscape seen from the sky. It plays in a silent loop behind your texts.

You see the video in the panel before placing it. A video too heavy? WAOU shrinks it in your browser before sending it, then the server prepares it so it plays everywhere, including on iPhone and Mac.

✓ Silent looping video as page background
✓ Preview in the panel before placing it
✓ Shrunk before sending, playable on every device
✓ A different background for the phone
Music

Background music can transform a visit, provided it is well measured. You set it for the whole website or for one page, you adjust the volume and the loop. A small 🔊 button lets visitors turn the sound off: browsers forbid starting a sound without their consent, and WAOU respects that.

And sound does not have to be music: you can add a voice. It tells a story, presents your activity, or reads the page text to those who prefer to listen, or who read with difficulty.

Menu buttons can also have their own little sound, on hover or on touch.

✓ Music for the whole website or per page
✓ A voice that tells a story, or reads the page text
✓ Adjustable volume and loop
✓ Visitors stay in control of the sound
✓ A sound for menu buttons
✓ The sound fades in gently, without startling

💡 Music that is too loud is worse than no music. Try 30% volume.
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