Happy New Year! We've been working hard on this timeline: http://blurredistinction.com/test/timeline/ to have it ready for our client next week and could use some help testing. It's XML driven and uses the Fuse Kit for pretty much all animation. Any feedback is much appreciated. -...more >>

Hi all, Just decided to touch up and improve my website (www.arvindsond.com), and am trouble trying to get my menu working correctly. I would like the type of button where you put the mouse over and the menu pops out, and then when you move the mouse away the menu slide back. At the ...more >>

Hi, I created a map in Flash and it loads great, works great when you're on a mac (it was created on a mac too). Though the problem is that when the page is viewed on a PC and you rollover the map there is a boundry that appears around the map and a text notice that reads "click to activ...more >>

I am a newb at this program and i want to know how to set the beginning scene. when i make "scene 2" and ctrl+enter, it starts with scene 2 instead of scene 1. Scene 1 is the index (home) of the site I'm making. I couldn't find anything about this in the flash help. I also have another q...more >>

Hi, I have a button created in flash as a .swf, I have the animation with the rollover and everything. Now I am trying to import this into my website in dreamweaver. but when I import the button and only want the button...the stage gets imported too. so its the button surrounded by a huge ...more >>

When I call up my web page it requires me to click once first on the graphic to make the flash movie run (the menue). How can I have it active from the start? Thank you!! ...more >>

I've just seen this very neat menu system I want to use for my own site, but being a Flash novice, I can't quite get my noodle on how its done. http://www.dontclick.it/ I can do basic animations and mouse on/over/out events but this seems a lot more complex; Specifically when the cursor ...more >>

I am making a flash upload form for my website alongside php, and I need to know how to have an flash form do the same thing as <input type=file> would do in html. Any ideas?...more >>

publishing flash movie error: click to active and use this control, how do i make this go away so when I view the flash sit it will just come up?...more >>

Given that 95% of computers have a Flash player installed, this may be an unnecessary question, but what happens if I use Flash buttons in a DW8 site and the client computer has no Flash player? I know the SWFauto detects the player, but what happens to the buttons and their behavior if none ...more >>

Please help. I'm on my way to completing my first site. I thought I did pretty well considering I've taught myself Dreamweaver and Flash from reading books. My pride bubble was burst when I opened my new website. What worked in preview doesnt work live. The file is big, 14 MB, I'm sure I miss...more >>

Hello. I am a photographer interested in designing a photo gallery website.My question is how are the special effects created in Flash for when a thumbnail is clicked and the photo downloads into the picture viewer? (such as the photo fading in , the photo is assembled from small blocks, the...more >>

Hi everybody, I've created a slideshow movie with my Flash 8 Pro, which shows many pictures in sequence. I would like to add, over every pictures in my movie, a vector shape symbol "star". I've tried to put it in the presentation slide, the parent of every other slide in the movie, but when ...more >>

I thought Flash had a built in feature along with the Player checking that could load a static JPEG in place of the movie if the proper Flash Player was not detected. I don't find it in Help or searching this forum. Anyone point me in the right direction? ...more >>

Please help me on how to create a flash website...more >>

Can anyone help with smoothing scrollbar, it scrolls glitchy, it's not smooth. I'm using flash version 6. Would really appreciate any help http://www.theinfoagency.com thanks, TB...more >>

Hi! I am semi-skilled with Flash and HTML and SEO for HTML. A friend got me a job building a website for a lawyer friend of his (let's call him Joe Smith). I showed him some templates, and he fell in love with a full-Flash site. The good news is that I built his site easily using this templat...more >>

I was just on the rapper E-40s website, and noticed on the bottom a really cool navigation menu shaped like dog tags. when you roll over them, they follow the mouse, then when you move the mouse, they jiggle back and forth until they stop. here is the website: http://www.e-40.com/ . Can someon...more >>

Hi, I want to know if there is any way we could create tables in Flash 8 and assign different colors to different tables.I want to do this for my website,but no way.The only way i figured out is to design a rectangle with the desired color,place it on a different layer and under the text...more >>

I am putting in static text and I want to be able to scroll through it. I've read about putting a mask on it and using the scroll bar component. But I'm wanting to use my own scroll buttons. Is this possible with static text? Or do I need to embed text in a dynamic text field to use the sc...more >>

I'd like to use a simple preloader with a rotating wheel like this http://www.stuarttannerarchitects.com.au. Any ideas where I can find this? Thanks....more >>

Hi all. I'm wanting to create an email form in my Flash site. So that the user enters details like name, email address and message and that then gets sent to my email address. Now i know this requires back end scripting in PHP etc. And really want to give it ago. But would really like a s...more >>

This must be a simple fix, I cannot find it. !! My objects according to the properties panel are stating negative xy positions, yet on the stage with the xy 00 at top left they should read positive. ...more >>

I'm pretty confused, why when I add a link to text and use Test Movie (Cntl-Enter) the link works, opens a new browser window as it should. But when I publish the .Fla, the mouse-pointer turns to a hand as it should but the links do nothing. The URL doesn't even show up on th bottom of the s...more >>

I have a nice form set up in flash. I can enter text in the fields, but as I tab from the first field to the next, I end up on text in another area of the page before tabbing again to land on another field, then when I tab again, I get the next field, tab again and leave the form to find text ...more >>

Hi, I ws asked to build a Visio-style user-editable org chart in Flash. I ws going to do it the quick 'n dirty way by simply chaining together movie clips (vp.manager.employee, intern), but that presents a problem that persons cannot be added "mid-chain" - as I do not believe that movie...more >>

[B]Folks...[/B] I have a graphic of a fictional planet: (check it out here, at my test site: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3yjbu/artlinks.htm) ...that I need set in motion. It's the same graphic that appears (in part) here, in the header of my website: http://www.moonjams.com/ma...more >>

I have a problem with a flash site I inherited. When I click the back button in Internet Explorer it takes me all the the way back to the Flash intro and not the last page I was in. This appears to be a site issue problem it is not IE related. Any help appreciated. ...more >>

Tech People, I have designed a home page that uses alot of flash animation (about 90%). The main SWF animation file is 2 megabytes, and the other single SWF files are under 1 meg. I would like to combine the SWF files into one basic Flash index page. All of the animation SWF files resi...more >>

Ok, so I am sick and tired of this "click to activate and use this control" junk with IE. Is there any code I can insert either in the Action Script or in the HTML to get rid of this? If so, what is it? Thanks! ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know which software or something... to do an E-Magazine like this site.? http://www.freedom.com.au/catalogue/christmas/index.html Please help, I need it urgent. Many thanks,...more >>

Hi everyone. I am a designer who just hired a Flash artist to create my entire site in Flash. I am disappointed with the way the animation works: it is slow and choppy and embarrassingly amateurish looking. I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but the artist imported all of my l...more >>

im currently developing a online digital scrapbook. http://www.scrapr.co.uk its in the early stages of development and i would like some feedback regarding the design and what features you would like to see added. also i heard that such a project would be easier in Flex. is this true? ...more >>

My customer wants a blog added to their Flash website. Is this a relatively easy task? Are there any examples ? Or should they just create a blog on a Blog site and I link that to the Flash site ? Thanks. Rob Childress ...more >>

Hi I need a good tutorial about setting up flv playlist, with thumbnails, full screen button opltion and all thins in progressive download mode is there something like this for free? thanks ...more >>

What code can i use, and/or how can i stop people from saving, lifting, stealing my flash website design? Thanks!...more >>

Hello Everyone, I am realtively new to flash. I created the splash page of our site in flash but 1st off it takes to long to load as it is. But I would like to create the entire site in Flash. What is the best way to create a Flash site, and are there tutorials out there or any really good...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash. But good at editing it :) Recently I've purchased template from template monster.com. The template actually receives text input from a html file. Now the problem is I want my site to be set up in two different languages. I expect my clients from Germany. I've eve...more >>

:confused; I have my scrolling text field all set up through the Properties inspector. I have imported the images I want in the scrolling text field into the library. I'd be happy to use the <img src> HTML tag to tell the text field to put the images in, but I can't figure out where to ...more >>

Hey, I have a situation that I need you help with. I am exporting this Flash banner to my PHP website. I exported the banner.fla file and the banner.swf. I ftp everything correctly ,but it is displaying a blank object. // It said, ?Please press spacebar to activate this control. I did tha...more >>

The FLVPlayback for playing FLV is not working correctly for me, the video plays fine but the controls doesnt show. When playing in flash player localy it does, but on the webpage it doesnt appear, only the video. Any ideas? ...more >>

I made a flash animation and put it on a web page but now it has a grey box when you mouse over. It does not do anything. How do I get rid of the grey box?...more >>

Listen ! Im looking for someone that knows how to make flash websites from the ground up. All i need is just a few tops on gettin styarted. I know alot . I got all the programs jus need a tiny bit of help. Willin to pa if you realli need some money but what i need is only 5 mins of your time a...more >>

Hello. I have a button. When you click it I want it to link to an external windows media player audio file. Can anybody help me? This is beginning to give me a headache! ...more >>

Hi guys! Is there a tutorial somewhere that I can learn how to populate a tree component? Thanks! ...more >>

I need to make a clickable map for a tourism website. Can anyone point me to a online tutorial that I can look at? thank you...more >>

Hi all, I have just completed a fully functional flv player built using actionscript as opposed to the FLVPlayback component. For pulling in the flvs I use an xml file which is displayed in a listbox component. I have chosen a vertical display for the controls instead of the usual horizo...more >>

Which site do you think has a better layout and design. http://www.gatoona.com/test or http://ww.gatoona.com/working. Please offer some suggestions. I am only 12 yrs old and I would really love to have my first website be a good one. Thank you. ...more >>

Hi all, I'm new to programming, especially to Flash, but I've managed to put together a site for myself that I'm pretty proud of (www.davidfoleyjr.net). Currently the only thing I'm having trouble figuring out is the Form - I'm trying to set up a "Leave a Message" thing, but I can't ...more >>

I have done several 100% Flash sites and a few HTML only sites, but I have never really combined the two (other than using a plain HTML page as an envelope to display the self-contained Flash site. What I am wanting to do is create an all-Flash header section with navigation controls and other...more >>