Adding sound to homepages is inexpensive - it's the cost of purchasing a simple microphone to plug into your system's sound card. The CD Player, Sound Recorder and Volume Control programs packaged with Windows 95, together with a shareware editor such as Sound Gadget Pro, is all that is needed to record messages and noises. The important option to set in this program is Edit Audio Properties. The Recording Perferred Quality option can be set to either CD, Radio or Telephone. 44100 Hz stereo recording - is the best but also creates the largest files.
Higher quality means slower download and play times.
As on the Sound Recorder to save your noise as a WAV file. Open your WAV file. Use the mouse to drag the dark beginning markers from time 0 to the visible start of your wave pattern. Edit Cut this dark section - dead air which increases your file size. Use the mouse to perform a similar operation starting at the other end of your wave pattern.