Do you know about Dreamweaver??

rizzonjig

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I have just purchased Dreamweaver 8 and I am looking for some free on line info on how to use the program. I have been using the tutorials that are in the help section of Dreamweaver. In that section the tutorial has you add a flash file but the flash file does not show on my computer. I am not sure why if you could help me in any way I would greatly appreciate it... Thanks..
 
ok well I am doing the tutorial and in a section the tutorial has you add a flash file but the flash file does not show on my computer do you have any ideas?
 
yes i know about it

did u buy it to hopefully learn it?
-y didn't u just download free alternative flash programs.

did you buy it cause you like it?
-http://www.photoshopsupport.com/dreamweaver/tutorials.html
 
Thank you for the info, and that web site with the tutorials is great... but I am still lost on why my flash will not show on my page... I believe I am skipping a step but I can not figure out what that step is.
 
Thanks for the good web site they do have something else I was lookin for but not the flash question... Below is the tutorial that I am doing.. maybe my computer needs something to show the flash like java and it doesn't have it.. I don't know.. I highlited what I think is my problem in red..


To insert the Flash FMA file, you need to insert HTML code that embeds the file in the Dreamweaver page. The easiest way to do this is to insert the SWF file (the exported Flash Movie file) into the page. When you insert a SWF file in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver writes all of the necessary Flash HTML code for you.

With the index.html page open in the Dreamweaver Document window, click once inside the second row of the first table.
This is the table row immediately below the banner graphic you inserted in the previous section.

In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Center from the Horz pop-up menu, and select Middle from the Vert pop-up menu.
This places the contents of the table cell in the middle of the cell.



NOTE

If you cannot see the Vert or Horz pop-up menus, click the expander arrow in the lower-right corner of the Property inspector.


Select Insert > Media > Flash.
In the Select File dialog box, browse to the flash_fma.swf file (it’s in the cafe_townsend root folder of your site), select the file, and click OK.

If the Object Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box appears, click OK.



A Flash content placeholder, rather than a scene from the FMA itself, appears in the Document window. This is because the HTML code is "pointing" to the SWF file flash_fma.swf. When a user loads the index.html page, the browser plays the SWF file.

ABOUT...

About Flash files When you build assets in Macromedia Flash, you work in FLA files, the default file type for the Flash application. FLA files are designated by a .fla extension. For example, if you are working on an animated logo for a website, the filename of the Flash file might be animated_logo.fla.

When you’ve finished working on a FLA file in Flash, you must export the file to a format that can be played on the web in Flash Player. When you export FLA files in Flash, they are converted to SWF files and designated by a .swf extension. SWF files (not FLA files) play Flash content in a web browser and are the file type you must insert into a web page that you are building with Dreamweaver.



The Flash content placeholder should remain selected after you insert the SWF file, as long as you don’t click anywhere else on the page.
If it’s not selected, select the Flash content placeholder by clicking it.

In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), click Play.


NOTE

If you cannot see the Flash Play button, click the expander arrow in the lower-right corner of the Property inspector.


Dreamweaver plays the Flash file in the Document window, showing you what site visitors will see when they view the page in a browser.




In the Property inspector, click Stop to stop playing the Flash file.
Save the page.
 
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