I think my problem is that i am using a lot of images in JPEG format and i have compressed them but it still seems to be taking longer then i think it should. Now i think this is the problem and i am not really sure if that is even it. If someone could view it and give me some tips that would ...more >>

2 quesitons I hope somebody can answer 1. If I'm doing a splash page for a flash website, I know the main page needs to be called index.html so what do I call the splash page? 2.What is the script I use to make one page , when its finished, open and play another flash page. I know what it...more >>

Hi all, Instead of using style="background:some_still_image.jpg", how do I embed the flash object here instead of still graphics so I can have my flash mc play in the back layer of the page. Is this possible? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, the front end to my website is flash, however I am having a problem with the menus. I currently have text set as rollovers and when pressed, it takes you to a different page or frame. can i set the actual text box and not the actual letters (hard to click on) to be the clickable area? If y...more >>

O.K., I'll admit it....I'm a newbie. Bottom line is that i've created a SIMPLE drop down menu and I can't seem to get it "out of the box". What i mean is it is hidden [i]inside[/i] the dimentions of the flash movie in the html. When i make the flash size larger, it just pushes everything ...more >>

Hello everyone. I am working on my own personal website and would like to achieve the rollover effect on the buttons at the bottom of the screen (ex. what fits my ride....)on this website: http://tiswheels.com/. Does anyone have any suggestions as how i would go about reconstruction this in fl...more >>

Hi Everyone I am trying to teach myself how to use Macromedia Flash MX and I have started with FLASH MX 2004, I am trying to create a button or text line that when clicked will allow me to print the page (in this case it is a map). I have looked through the manual and have not been able to f...more >>

I purchased a template and am attempting to modify the menu buttons. I have made the changes but for some reason when the movie plays the menu text isn't there. I have moved the text to be on top thinking that may be the problem but it still occurs. The files can be found at the following...more >>

Hi - In the 2nd panel (Cuisines and Menus) of a site I'm trying to build at: http://www.thymetoeatpcs.com/index2.html there's a dynamic TextField that brings in Text and CSS. It works fine locally but when I upload it and view it, the CSS doesn't get loaded. To make this more con...more >>

I want a navigation bar, that once rolled over, expands a list OVER the page content. Look at the top of the page. The navigation bar says 'solutions | Products | Support | Communities | Company | Dowloads | Store' Then, move your mouse over any of thsoe buttons. Lo and behold, a little...more >>

HI I have a flash movie and I need to cover a portion of it with a HTML Layer (specifically using Dreamweaver layers. I have tried adjusting the Z-Index, but the Flash movie always ends up on top of the layer. How do I force Flash NOT to be the top layer? Thanks Rowby ...more >>

I'm trying to make some nice text for a logo in photoshop, but how do i export it as a vector into Flash so it will not distort?...more >>

Hello all. I have been experiencing issues with one website www.stellassweetshoppe.com 3 people have told me that on thier computers the whole background building does not show up, that only the dog and the valentine's day sign show up. I had them empty out chaches (they are all on explore...more >>

Hi, i´m currently developing a flash site, the whole site is beeing developed in Flash. It is a template i recieved from template monster, i have just been editing its content and reducing its weight by deleting images and changing them for vectors. I have the problem that this SWF pulls a...more >>

I bought a premade flash template, however as of now it is created in non-flash format. I would love to have my top piece as the flash that it was meant to be. My site is currently http://www.georgiavideoproductions.com and the way that it should look is located here at http://www.template...more >>

I received this help to an answer a while ago: <<Another way to structure your pages, which is nice because you can keep your file to one frame, is to create your pages as movieclips, and load them dynamically from the library as needed into the same depth. If you load a movieclip into a dep...more >>

I have a timeline with the following sections in order of appearance: "main" "home" "portfolio" "about" "contact" I programmed my home button to take me to the home section on Release and so on and it works perfect the first time I click the button but if I click the same b...more >>

Hi, I have been doing wed designing for a few years now and i see that the flash industry is moving toward xml loaded flash pages. I have no clue on hw this is done. here are a couple of examples http://www.thefwa.com and http://www.webagent007.com These guys are astounding and I w...more >>

Hi, Not sure which forum to ask in but this seems the obvious choice. Up until now, I have used the code that comes from publishing the html for a flash file to check if the user has the latest flash player and if not, tells them so and they go get it and so on....... I have a client ...more >>

Looking for a little help in this one. Ive created a webpage where the navigation is done in flash (simple) and the rest of the page is html. The problem is when you roll over the flash in Internet Explorer a white box goes around the embeded flash at it's limits. Does anybody know of any way ...more >>

Preferably in the U.K Can anyone suggest a decent webhost/domain (not too expensive) that i can simply create pages and then upload my own dreamweaver html to? I have one dreamweaver site and one flash website. As i dont know ftp? help/replies are much appreciated Thanks Si ...more >>

I am trying to hire an artist to paint me a series of murals which I would like to put up on my website. My website designer will use Flash to pan the image across the screen or zoom in and out of the image. Does my artist have to paint the mural in Photoshop? Or paint it on the computer ...more >>

I'm saving images in photoshop as 24 bit PNG files. When I view these as .pngs via a browser they appear correctly, but when I view them in a .swf file on the same web page the colours aren't correct. Hex #1A1A1A is displaying much lighter, as #272727. Does anyone know how I can fix this? ...more >>

Hello, I'm new at action scripting, and I'm trying to create a button, that when released will save a PDF file to the viewers desktop. This will be used on my print design website, to enable people to download my resume. I know how to open the file in a browser window, but am hoping there is...more >>

For some reason i cant alter the scroll pane 'edit in place' Is there some way that i can remove the border (i have a white scrollpane on a white background but a border is still visible) help is much appreciated si ...more >>

I've been trying to find out how you make smooth page transitions on top of my currentpage no matter which page I got loaded and no matter what section I go to next. What I mean is that I wanna use the same animation ON TOP of the current page so that it gets covered while swithing to an...more >>

Hi in flash how do i open a link with the window being re-sized to the content. i.e in dreamweaver i would usually use behaviours - open page - size etc... help is very much appreciated si ...more >>

I need to make a scroll bar that scrolls through my image thumbnails. ? I have a row of 4 pictures and I want it to scroll to the next set of four and so on.... Is that possible? Thanks. www.mcbruno.com ...more >>

Hi there, In order to make my work portfolio easily accessible to anyone interested in seeing it I decided to put it on a website I created. I had already created a site and placed some of my portfolio on it though I am not overly happy with its design, I feel it looks to basic. An i...more >>

Hi all, I'm working on a website for a photographer who wants the visitor to be able to scroll horizonatlly through her a series of photos via a scroll bar. I've never attempted this in Flash before. I've seen some templates for sale at Template Monster that have a similar feature, but the t...more >>

I've seen a few apps online that allow the user to create comic strips. like this one: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm Is there a tutorial out there showing how this is done? I'd like to put one together for a kids organization I work with. TIA. ...more >>

:confused; Probably not the right words to use for the topic, but maybe it helps. I have a website I am building and the main/home page is stationary, while the other 5 pages shift in and out over the main page when their corresponding button is clicked. Problem is, while my other pages...more >>

:confused; First let me say, I am a print designer, so web is a bit foreign to me. I am attempting to create an online portfolio website for my print design work, and have run into a few problems. Does anyone know how to make a button proceed to the next frame when it is pressed, but n...more >>

i have create a fully flash website and already put into the web. My flash file size is 40MB++. The problem now, when people trying to open the website, it is too slow to loading the flash. Sometimes it can take about 30 minute or more to let the flash play. It the any suggestions that i can d...more >>

Work is upgrading my 2 CRT monitors, with a 20" Apple Cinema Display plus a second monitor. The question is what second monitor should i get? A second 20" Apple Cinema Display is too costly, so their thinking of a Dell 17", but was wondering on your thoughts in regards to Flash and it's setup....more >>

I am new to Flash and only minor experience in Frontpage. I have many questions but the first is screen resolution. The initial mock-up of the site was done with a background of 800x600. The market for this site is the financial aspect of people coming up on or just starting their retiremen...more >>

Hi there I have a problem with flash here is the link of my menu that I made with Flash http://www.graphicday.com/moving%20menu.html but I don't know for what reason the movement is not smooth. how can I make something the same but with a smooth movement? thanks ...more >>

My problem is that my Flash Site Does not work in all the BROWSERS... (Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla). Is there a code to fix this problem? Thanks,...more >>

I need some flash help. Really basic stuff. Quite new to flash so just have a couple of questions with a flash site I'm creating. Could anyone willing to help please contact me via Private message? I don't want to upload the .fla to the public. Thanks. ...more >>

I am just starting to learn Flash. I have come across an issue that I cannot figure out. I added a Flash movie that I made to a site, and just above the movie, there is an drop down menu. Now that I have added the Flash movie, the drop down menu options are hidden behind the movie and you ...more >>

Anybody got a good workflow book or article for flash projects? Also a reference to good principles of flash animation in general would be good....more >>

Hello... Is there anyone can help me... Anbody know how to put flash movie on front of html code, the simple way to say is can you put flash floating on your html code? If you can, please tell me about it... Many thanks in advance ...more >>

I have created an 100+ frame animated intro that ends up with the interface of my webpage showing up. Im kinda new to creating websites in Flash but I wanna use the last frame of my intro as a kind of start page with buttons etc. to link to the rest of my webpage. So I assume I should copy ...more >>

Im trying to figure out how to align different movie symbols to opposite sides of the browser edge. An example is www.mtvonedotzero.com any ideas or suggestions??? I think this style looks really nice and clean. ...more >>

Hi I am new to this site. I used to use Flash 4 back in 2000 and just started back again using Flash 8. Anyway I was wondering if someone could point me to some resources/tutorials/books on how to integrate high quality video into a flash site. As an example please see the sites below h...more >>

Hi Im building a band website and I need a music player that just has the basic buttons, heres an example www.remedydrive.com. How do I do this? And as you can see, on that page (remedydrive.com) the player alwayse is playing no matter what links you press, (so it doesnt reload everytime you o...more >>

Hello everybody,this is my first post and probably not my last!! My problem is this: I have generated some webgalleries using photoshop cs2 and would like to intergrate them in my flash http://www.purcell-images.com.Q1:how do I get the thumbs to scroll vertically? Q2:is it possible to display...more >>

OK - the reason I am asking this, we can't afford a flash server yet, I would love to be able to put in the show in full screen ... I just used Dreamweaver (not Flash) to create this, but if anyone has any suggestions they would be appreciated! - http://www.mixit.tv/ My first attempt a...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way to stop Firefox caching swf's.I have uploaded amendments to the server but Firefox keeps displaying the old versions.I have tried including <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" /> <META HTTP-EQUIV="E...more >>

Although I use clean images at 72 dpi and import as PNG files, no compression, no smoothing, Properties=lossless PNG... the outputted swf file sometimes shows offset areas... e.g. parts of letters are sometimes offset. I noticed that it happens horizontal....e.g. upper half of a word is slight...more >>