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all groups > macromedia flash sitedesign > may 2005 > threads for may 8 - 14, 2005

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Posting movie on my website
Posted by baudday at 5/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
Im wondering how to put my movie onto my website....more >>


FLASH button in dreamweaver
Posted by amansull at 5/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
I made a simple flash button with a link to a page within my site files on dreamweaver...loaded it onto dreamweaver and not only will it take forever to load but it does not animate on my website, its just a blank box ...more >>

LOOPING SITE!!
Posted by baudday at 5/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
:| My site keeps automatically looping even if i dont want it to. I have a pretty mediocre clip for the intro to my site, and all i want it to do is play the clip and then stop so the person can hit the enter button, but instead it just keeps looping for no apparent reason. The problem is that...more >>

Help with buttons?
Posted by Vince Vega at 5/13/2005 8:40:52 PM
I have a flash banner for my site and on it I have buttons that I want to link to different URL's. The banner is in a in frame and the target for the URL is another frame. Kind of like this: --------------------------------------- I THIS IS THE BANNER I I FRAME ...more >>

Flash Help
Posted by Paul_HP Design at 5/13/2005 1:33:18 PM
I recently obtained Macromedia Studio MX, and I have about figured out Fireworks and Dreamweaver. But I need a little help with Flash. My boss wants me to create a site like .http://www.pepsi.com/home.php and I?m not even sure where to start. Thanks for any help you could give ...more >>

Drop Shadow
Posted by tanguera at 5/13/2005 4:41:57 AM
Is there a way I can apply a drop shadow to a symbol (photo)? If you do know, could you tell me step by step :)...more >>

Finsh the Site
Posted by edemoss at 5/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
I have finished creating all the movies for my site and I am now confused. I have a preloader in front of all my movies and the problem I am facing is when I put them all together in one file, everything wants to load at once. I guess I am asking is how to make the beginning animation begin ...more >>

white flash before download preloader appears
Posted by monkey boo at 5/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
hey can any help me with downloading a flash movie? the problem is when I first start downloading the flash file a white image appears where the flash movie is, then it show the preloader but because the blank white area has been ther for a while the movie has already download 40% of the ...more >>



Preloading externals SWFs?
Posted by MonkeyPiePdx at 5/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
I need to call/load a bunch of external SWF (7 total - 2-3mb each) files. I used a Preloader on the front of the parent movie - but it didn't load the swfs being called by "loadMovieNum" - which makes sense I guess. So how do I preload these large swfs so they are ready to play when I need th...more >>

sizeing within server window
Posted by zoe_b at 5/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
help!! question : your average flash website fills an entire web server window. is this a resizing of the original flash stage dimensions of 500/450 within the html file? have the swf&html files been dropped into a raw tabeled html file? or is this somthing done in dreamweave...more >>

Adding Flash as a background
Posted by SgtCheeseNOLS at 5/12/2005 5:09:42 PM
I just recently took over operations of a website for my company, collegepartycentral. I want to add water effects to the background of the website, but I am unable to. Is there someway that I could add it to the site? Preferably in tile mode, since I do not want to expand the picture beyond i...more >>

Display Image when Flash not installed
Posted by karl hungus at 5/12/2005 1:41:47 PM
How can i get my site to display an image when someone comes to the site without Flash Player Installed? Thanks...more >>

Motion Tween
Posted by PreetR at 5/12/2005 10:58:48 AM
Hi. I am using Flash 5. I want to create a Motion Tween in which a single Line segment is animated to expand in an upward direction...When i am trying to do the same, the line segment is expanding from both the directions, whereas i want it to expand from one direction only.Pls help me on ...more >>

Gradient backgrounds
Posted by RadioCatDesign at 5/12/2005 3:35:29 AM
I am making my own web design portfolio site right now, and I want my background to be a gradient. I do not want to draw a rectangle on the stage, and make the gradient. I want the gradient to be the same, no matter what size the monitor is, and I don't want any white border. Like if I went...more >>

buttons with transparent background
Posted by amansull at 5/11/2005 6:42:48 PM
I want to animate flash buttons and place them on dreamweaver...how do I play with the scales between the two? How can I make the background transparent so my graphic stands alone on dreamweaver?...more >>

Publishing
Posted by arabhorsecrazy1 at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
:disgust; I really need help. I'm trying to put my Macromedia Flash MX slideshow (.swf file) onto my angelfire.com webpage. For some reason every time I go to upload my .swf file it won't work. It gives me the "page cannot be displayed" screen. Is there something I need to do to pubplish ...more >>

simple goto and stop action
Posted by schebito at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Boton Invisible, frame=1:Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler gotoAndPlay("foto1");...more >>

Flash nav :: Need help
Posted by anicoler at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
I've posted the swf file on my company's server: http://www.compxnet.com/redesign/arch.swf. This is the file my questions are about. I have been using Flash for a few years, but not much in the last seven months, and I'm new to AS2. I just really need help refreshing and getting back i...more >>

Drop Down Menus
Posted by Ranjini P at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello, Isn't there anybody to answer this problem of mine... had posted this question long back but no solutions regarding this... Pls Help........ I am a frequent user of Flash & i have created homepage in the same with some courses & drop down menus for that. I have almost finished...more >>

SITE CHECK ... DOWNLOAD SPPED
Posted by Anthony Ford at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
I would like some feedback on a site I've designed: www.debloemist.co.uk I have large images and would like to hear if the site loads fast enough on different systems. Thanks in advance ToFo ...more >>

Running Applets from Flash
Posted by rfahrbach at 5/11/2005 12:00:00 AM
I realize Flash was created in part to eliminate the need for applets, but the actions of the Lake Applet would be very hard to duplicate, so I'd like to run it within Flash. At www.datalog.tv I have used tables and i-frames to register the lake applet to a flash object. I want to covert t...more >>

Best way to resize a Flash file
Posted by Don Hinshaw at 5/10/2005 5:34:46 PM
Hi there, I was handed an FLA file and asked to resize it. It contains bitmaps, among them a PNG file with alpha transparency. I do not have any other source files, only the FLA. I can resize the elements and the movie, but the quality of the PNG file gets worse, and the file size of the SWF...more >>

Tabbing down in form
Posted by Henry-8 at 5/10/2005 10:35:04 AM
Hello, I am building a small, information website in Flash. There is a simple form contained in a movie clip that appears on a page that has several buttons that link to the other pages. While filling out the form, when you try to tab down from one input box to the one below, a link button i...more >>

loading a text file
Posted by druhallen at 5/10/2005 7:19:08 AM
I don't have any trouble loading the .txt file into the dynamic text. But I can't to make changes on the text, the whole text is the same. I wanted to be able to change font sizes on diferent parts of the text, also make some parts italic. I have the .txt file: myFile=Title some text ...more >>

Monitor issues? Site check
Posted by TDCharlton at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I'm just finishing my first course in Flash and I'm nearly finished with designing my portfolio site....or so I thought. Here's my site: http://www.tylercharlton.com The problem seems to be with the difference in PC and Mac monitors. I designed this site on a Mac. On PC monitors (ev...more >>

Scroll panels
Posted by JeffWood at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am making a site in Flash MX. I know HTML and CSS and all that but I decided to try Flash instead. I really wanted to get some scrollbars or scrollpanels in there like these at http://www.dcfilms.com (see where it says daily updates). I was thinking scroll panels was the way to go but I had ...more >>

Intergrating a flash site dynamically
Posted by Leo D. Bickert at 5/9/2005 12:48:12 PM
:confused; I am new to alot of dynamic format...here is my question...Can you take a flash template and integrate it into a dynamic site? for instance can it import in php format?...more >>

online flash game
Posted by squeakyNYC at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
hey, just finished building an online game entirely in flash, and would love to know what people think! http://sobeadrenalinerush.com/commercial/game.asp...more >>

SITE CHECK::: www.jeffgreenough.com
Posted by possum4all at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
http://www.newcitymedia.com/...more >>

Photo gallery slide show help?
Posted by Stick-em! at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi All, I'm new here & a novice at Flash so any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm trying to use the slide show template in Flash & would like to edit it to add more photos & just wondering how I can add the images & then how to load the template console into my webpage? I have ab...more >>

Creating a Photo Gallery
Posted by Roughouse Designs at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am trying to create a photo gallery, something along the lines of this one which was from a post awhile back: 05/04/2005 03:11:24 AM http://www.karenfederphotography.com/gallery/weddings/johnandrea/johnandrea.htm Does anyone have any ideas where I can go to learn how to make some...more >>

Website source files
Posted by Augman at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Wondering what the protocol is for giving up the source files to a client. I developed/designed a site at a reduced rate. Now, client wants to take source files and go elsewhere. Nothing in contract regarding source files. Do I have a right to withhold or charge for said source files? Client i...more >>

Flash site how??????
Posted by peettie at 5/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello, I have seen a flash site template but i am asking how did they do that!??? http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/7459.html?&templ=7459&scr_type=1& hide_flash=0&tab=32&full_screen=1 I mean the turning of the big screen can somebody tell me of this is actionscript o...more >>

blending colors
Posted by josh423 at 5/8/2005 12:21:57 AM
blend colors in flash. like how would i create a "flash version" of this frog http://www.koalanet.com.au/images/grnfrog1.jpg ...more >>


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