Dr. MAC's nephew, Ryan, wanted to make his own electronic Christmas card.  He selected select a graphic from the Internet; here it is!

  Then he wanted to find a .midi file of Jingle Bells to attach to the graphic.  Ryan and Dr. MAC, with "help" from Dr. Marsh and his cat, Archie, (click here to hear Archie's view on this) began to look for a .midi he could use.  We went to the location on the Internet shown below and did a search for a midi file of Jingle Bells.

Here's the screen. We typed in Jingle Bells for the search and only used the TOP search function.  We typed in the words JINGLE BELLS and then hit Search there on the left side of the space.

Here's what we got for our first search results. Look at the number of results for JINGLE BELLS.

From the above page, we selected  jingle-bells10.mid.  Here's what we got.
 
 
 

HUM... we decided to try LITTLE TEXAS WOLF'S CHRISTMAS MIDI BONANZA.  Click on it to see what we found.

Now... where were we in the example? HUM... oh yes...

Looking for Jingle Bells.midi

We selectd the "Untitled" above. Here's what we got.

Who knows what all of this is about? All we DO KNOW is that this is NOT a .midi of JINGLE BELLS. So we keep trying by going back to the page where we were.  We have to keep trying.

Okay, Ryan and I keep trying. We click and get the option shown below.  We decided to try the INDEX.
 

When we clicked on the INDEX shown above, we got.....
 

Wow... HAVE SOME CHRISTMAS .MIDI FILES! THEY JUST CONTINUE IN A HUGE LIST... SEE BELOW:
 

At this point, without having heard a single .midi of Jingle Bells, Ryan decided that he would rather have a .midi about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer than Jingle Bells.  He selected the following file by clicking on it and listening.  Here's the little sound icon you will see:

 You can click on the link belowt and hear what he selected!

He decided that he had found the .midi file he needed.

NEXT... he put his cursor on the .midi file he wanted and then used the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON as shown below to save.

When he "right clicked" he got the option chart shown below.

He selected "SAVE LINK AS"   and got the following screen.

He didn't want his file to be named something like "thedeernotemus" so he changed the name to something that we could find again later. RUDOLPH.  He was careful to save his .midi file in the same directory (folder) with his reindeer graphic so that the two would work together on the net.
 

Now he is ready to finish up. He has his graphic, he has his .midi file.  He is working .html (NETSCAPE COMPOSER).  He inserts his graphic of the reindeer then he clicks on the graphic. He selects LINK , then browses until he finds his RUDOLPH.midi file.

That way his graphic is "linked" to the .midi file.  You can also insert the .midi file in PowerPoint by doing "insert" and you can attach the .midi file to an email, just like you would attach any other file. Try those!

And so.....
Ryan ended up with his electronic Christmas card, including the nice little .midi file he wanted. Here it is: