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adnoh

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ok,

I'm doing a very basic website for my webdesign class. I am a total nooB to this stuff. The page so far has just one table, an image, and some text. I want to import a .swf file I made for the heading of the page. How do I import a flash file into my code?


Here is what the code for the page looks like so far:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
-->
</style></head>


<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="800" height="387" border="1">
<tr>

<td width="396">

More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to create growth. It means truly
understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition.
Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be,
no matter how off the beaten path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way,
in a tight, coordinated team. You just found it. </p></td>

<td width="388">
business%20One.jpg
</td>

</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>




Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
 
Originally posted by adnoh@Apr 23 2005, 06:41 PM
ok,

I'm doing a very basic website for my webdesign class. I am a total nooB to this stuff. The page so far has just one table, an image, and some text. I want to import a .swf file I made for the heading of the page. How do I import a flash file into my code?


Here is what the code for the page looks like so far:
<snip />
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Step 1
Choose File > Publish. Flash will now create the <object>, <param>, and <embed> tags for you. It will also create the classid and pluginspage attributes.

Step 2
Open the HTML document that Flash created, view the HTML source and copy the code into your HTML page where you want your Flash movie.

Step 3
Be sure that you have the "somefilename.swf" in your Web folder.


Step 4
Fix your code. its lame :)


Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #0000ff;}
#leftcol { float: left; width: 370px; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 320px; padding: 0; margin: 0;}
-->
</style>
</head>


<body>
<div id="wrapper">
	<div id="leftcol">
 <p>More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to 

create growth. It means truly understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an 

ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition. Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling 

strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be, no matter how off the beaten 

path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way, in 

a tight, coordinated team. You just found it.</p>
	</div>
	
	<div id="rightcol">
 <img src="Images/business%20One.jpg" alt="image description here" />
	</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>
play with the widths to fit your pic and stuff.

where do you want to add the flash to? in the heading? if so, use this code:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #0000ff;}
#header { margin:0 auto; padding:0; }
#leftcol { float: left; width: 370px; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 320px; padding: 0; margin: 0;}
-->
</style>
</head>


<body>
<div id="wrapper">
	<div id="header"><!-- insert flash object tag crap here --></div>
	<div id="leftcol">
 <p>More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to 

create growth. It means truly understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an 

ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition. Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling 

strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be, no matter how off the beaten 

path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way, in 

a tight, coordinated team. You just found it.</p>
	</div>
	
	<div id="rightcol">
 <img src="Images/business%20One.jpg" alt="image description here" />
	</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>
 
Thanks Brian, I really appreciate it. I'll try it out this afternoon!

I know my code is lame :p Dreamweaver and I haven't really developed a working relationship as of yet :) Things are still a bit messy.
 
you'll never develop a solid relationship with dreamweaver. WYSIYYG editors blow.
 
i use Dreamweaver MX and to insert a flash picture or whatever, here is what i do (easiest way i know of):

- click the "Show Design View" button. its on the left side at the top and looks like it has a picture in the left corner with scribbles on the side.

- click the button thats a red circle with an F inside of the circle. thats for the flash object.

- select the flash object you want to insert and double click it.

thats basically it.

i built (well still building) my site using DreamweaverMX. if you want to check it out, its: http://www.diversifiedridez.com. its a website for the car club i am in. if you have any questions, lemme know. i got the book that came with the software handy :)
 
Originally posted by BodyDroppedNikes@Apr 24 2005, 08:48 PM
i use Dreamweaver MX and to insert a flash picture or whatever, here is what i do (easiest way i know of):

- click the "Show Design View" button. its on the left side at the top and looks like it has a picture in the left corner with scribbles on the side.

- click the button thats a red circle with an F inside of the circle. thats for the flash object.

- select the flash object you want to insert and double click it.

thats basically it.

i built (well still building) my site using DreamweaverMX. if you want to check it out, its: http://www.diversifiedridez.com. its a website for the car club i am in. if you have any questions, lemme know. i got the book that came with the software handy :)
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Sweet man. Thanks for the input. I'm going to tackle this tomorrow so I'll let you know if I need any further help :)
 
Ok, Still having an issue.

I've fixed up the code via B's instructions, and it looks much better.

My problem, is when I import my flash, it doesn't show the movie at all. It just has a large grey box with the flash logo, that most likely means "if you did this right, this is where your movie should be, dumbass".

Here is a screen shot of what I mean:
gallery_31005_76_128717.jpg



And here is what my code looks like, does anyone see anything?

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #0000ff;}
#header { margin:0 auto; padding:0; }
#leftcol { float: left; width: 370px; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 320px; padding: 0; margin: 0;}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><!--DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>flash movie corp</title>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="850" height="200" id="flash movie corp" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="850" height="200" name="flash movie corp" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>


<div id="leftcol">
 <p>More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to

create growth. It means truly understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an

ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition. Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling

strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be, no matter how off the beaten

path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way, in

a tight, coordinated team. You just found it.</p>
</div>

<div id="rightcol">
 <img src="Images/business%20One.jpg" alt="image description here" />
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>
 
Originally posted by adnoh@Apr 25 2005, 12:11 PM
Ok, Still having an issue.

I've fixed up the code via B's instructions, and it looks much better.

My problem, is when I import my flash, it doesn't show the movie at all. It just has a large grey box with the flash logo, that most likely means "if you did this right, this is where your movie should be, dumbass".

Here is a screen shot of what I mean:
gallery_31005_76_128717.jpg



And here is what my code looks like, does anyone see anything?

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #0000ff;}
#header { margin:0 auto; padding:0; }
#leftcol { float: left; width: 370px; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 320px; padding: 0; margin: 0;}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><!--DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>flash movie corp</title>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="850" height="200" id="flash movie corp" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="850" height="200" name="flash movie corp" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>


<div id="leftcol">
 <p>More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to

create growth. It means truly understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an

ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition. Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling

strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be, no matter how off the beaten

path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way, in

a tight, coordinated team. You just found it.</p>
</div>

<div id="rightcol">
 <img src="Images/business%20One.jpg" alt="image description here" />
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>
[post=491160]Quoted post[/post]​
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woah!!! nelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


lol


you basically re-start your code all over again. all you want is the object to the /object code.




Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#wrapper { width: 850px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #0000ff;}
#header { margin:0 auto; padding:0; }
#leftcol { float: left; width: 370px; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 320px; padding: 0; margin: 0;}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="850" height="200" id="flash movie corp" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="flash%20movie%20corp.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="850" height="200" name="flash movie corp" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>


<div id="leftcol">
 <p>More than business planning. More than advertising. Why? Because marketing is about finding new ways to

create growth. It means truly understanding an existing or new business, researching whatever's out there, and defining an

ideal, fresh vision, strikingly different from the competition. Then it means honing products/services, pricing, selling

strategies, advertising, image and internal processes to become the company you truly want to be, no matter how off the beaten

path. To achieve significant growth, you need the most comprehensive services available, at your side every step of the way, in

a tight, coordinated team. You just found it.</p>
</div>

<div id="rightcol">
 <img src="Images/business%20One.jpg" alt="image description here" />
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>



that should work.


and make sure, that the path to the movie is correct..
flash%20movie%20corp.swf

and using spaces in file names is a horrible idea dude. at least use underscores
 
Ahhhh.....now we're good!

Looks great :)


I've got two more pages to create now (no flash, just html) and then I have to link them together so it works like a real website.....that's pretty much the assignment (gotta love college).

I'll hit you guys up if I need any more help.

thanks again everyone.
 
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