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gazza-man
7/16/2003 10:34:47 PM

flash (macromedia):

hi, I've been learning flash for a little while and have made several swf movies, for an interactive CV. Naively I thought I could just use these files as the actual webpages, but when I publish (preview them in the iexplorer browser) the browser reamins blank. How do I correct this problem, or have I gone about designing my Flash Site in the wrong way.

Can anyone give me anypointers or website tutorials address about creating websites using "just" Flash?

thanks loads

gazza-man

Re: beginners "schmuck"

Robin Nicholl
7/17/2003 12:50:09 AM

You need to 'host' your swf files within an HTML page, otherwise scaling
will be outside your control and will depend on the users' browser window
size. This would be OK for vector work, but useless if you're using any
bitmapped images.

Flash's Publish feature will create HTML holder pages for you, and there
should be plenty of info on http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash, or try
other resources such as http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/

--
Robin Nicholl
studioalias

Re: beginners "schmuck"

gazza-man
7/17/2003 12:51:17 PM

thanks for the answer, its sorted out the problem. But now I have come across a problem from that answer. I'm using an 19inch monitor and have set my background property dimmensions of my website to 750pixels by 500pixels. When viewing in the browser it seems to small and has missing parts around the edges, could you tell me the ideal size to make a website or is there any option boxes I can check in flash that scales the website to adjust for the monitors size and browsers so that its full edge to edge?

thanks once more

gazza "1.21 gigawatts!" man

Re: beginners "schmuck"

Robin Nicholl
7/17/2003 5:35:55 PM

I don't know what you mean by 'missing parts around the edges'. The size
you're using (750x500) shouldn't show any cropping on a 19in monitor
(although it's the size you've made your browser window that matters, of
course).

There is no 'ideal size' to make a web page, but you should bear in mind the
likely monitor size of your intended audience: 800 x 600 is fairly usual as
a minimum these days, so your 750 x 500 is about right (allowing for browser
elements like buttons etc., and the Windows task bar).

You can, of course, scale your movie to fit the user's browser window, but
if you're using bitmapped images it's best to stay with an exact size
otherwise distortion and loss of quality will ocurr. See
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash and search for 'scale' or
'parameters'.

--
Robin Nicholl
studioalias

Re: beginners "schmuck"

gazza-man
7/18/2003 7:20:37 PM

thanks once again for the quick replies.

Unfortunately I haven't sorted the problem, yet! When I say missing parts I mean that firstly I have created the page in flash where some images overlap the stage (as I thought this would sort out any problem with missing images), then publish previewed it in the iexplorer window and the missing parts occur between those overlapped images and the browser window. I've only used graphics created in flash, but no bitmaps. If you know anywhere I can post it up so you can see then let me know and I'll do it. Its weird because when I view the test movie in flash its fine.

I've tried a number of publishing options scale etc. Also is it ok to make a website entirely with flash movies/swf's I've got several linked together with buttons using the loadmovie actionscript?? or is it better to load flash into dreamweaver??)

tanks alot

gazza "you made a time machine out of a DeLorean!" man

Re: beginners "schmuck"

Robin Nicholl
7/19/2003 2:27:21 AM

Still not sure what you mean here:

[quoted text, click to view]

Although you don't have to, it's best to 'host' your swf files within an
HTML page, otherwise you lose control of scale, background colour, quality,
the ability for Flash to auto-update, etc., etc., etc...

This has nothing to do with using loadMovie.

--
Robin Nicholl
studioalias

Re: beginners "schmuck"

John
7/24/2003 4:28:43 PM

I went to your site: www.ghaine.co.uk. and here is the source of your HTML
page:

Look through the HTML on your computer and infront of all the SWF movies
put: ./
so an example would be: ./web site.swf

One other thing you might want to do when naming your files is to not use
spaces in the name....

John

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE>web site</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<A HREF=CV - details_Scene 1.swf></A> <A HREF=portfolio menu_scene
1.swf></A> 
<OBJECT
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
b#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="750" HEIGHT="500" id="web site" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="web site.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="web site.swf" quality=high
bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="750" HEIGHT="500" NAME="web site" ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Re: beginners "schmuck"

gazza-man
7/24/2003 7:06:24 PM

hello again,

I think I've sorted out the problem, When I publish preview, all the buttons work ok and the navigation is spot on. I've bought a domain name at www.getdotted.com and am planning to host my domain on the www.freeola.com site. Could you tell me what files I need to upload swf, htm... etc? I've upload all the swf's and corresponding html documents but when I try and open up the address the page remains blank. The address is www.ghaine.co.uk. All the uploaded file are no bigger than 20kb. My conumdrum is why it publish previews ok but not when I've uploaded.
Any suggestions?

gazza "The Dude abides" man

Re: beginners "schmuck"

Paul Allitt
7/24/2003 10:26:11 PM

well at

www.ghaine.co.uk

the code refers to file called

'web site.swf'

note the space between web and site

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