Adding flash to website

[bill]

I am pretty familiar with FP and have don't several sites but they have
all been without flash. I recently bought 2 templates that go together.
One is the site and the other is the intro flash page. The site is
already up, but I cannot figure out how to link the flash intro. Thanks

Bill Werkheiser

 

[Ronx]

If your host supports subwebs, publish the site to a subweb and the
intro to the root web as the Home page. The Intro page will then link
to the Home page in the subweb.

Otherwise, rename your existing home page. Name the intro as your
home page and link to that renamed page.

I dislike intro pages, especially Flash intros - I would rather see
what the site has to offer than obstacles.

 

[bill]

Ron, thanks for your reply. If I understand you right, instead of my
home page being index.html, I will name it something else (or do I keep
it like that and put in inside a sub folder? I then name the flash page
index.html

thanks

Bill Werkheiser

 

[John Whitworth]

Ron, thanks for your reply. If I understand you right, instead of my
home page being index.html, I will name it something else (or do I keep
it like that and put in inside a sub folder? I then name the flash page
index.html

thanks

Bill Werkheiser

No ... your new index.html needs to reference the SWF file. Something
like this (where splash.swf is your Flash movie) ...

<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="splash.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=exactfit> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=T> <PARAM
NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="splash.swf" quality=high
scale=exactfit salign=T bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>


I have to admit, I removed the one I had on my site, for exactly the
reasons Bill says.

JW

 

[John Whitworth]

No ... your new index.html needs to reference the SWF file. Something
like this (where splash.swf is your Flash movie) ...

<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"

WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="splash.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=exactfit> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=T> <PARAM
NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="splash.swf" quality=high
scale=exactfit salign=T bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>

Sorry, I missed off a tag ... it needs a </OBJECT> after the </EMBED>.

JW