Flash Intro and linking to css website

topic posted Wed, July 13, 2005 - 5:59 PM by  Beth
Hi all. I joined this tribe in order to be a little more Flash savvy. I hope that you can help me. I want to make a Flash intro to my css website, but I don't know how to link the intro to the index page of the website.

This may seem elementary to you, but I really don't know that much about Flash. My site was developed in Dreamweaver, and I'd rather not have the little flash icon on a page if I can get away with it.

My idea is to just have the Flash intro play and then go to the site.

Any help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Beth
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Beth
Columbus
  • Re: Flash Intro and linking to css website

    Thu, July 14, 2005 - 4:11 AM

    Nothing mysterious about it, Beth. Just like adding an image.

    WHile working on your html page in Dreamweaver go to the menu.

    Insert>Media>Flash

    Find your flash .swf and there it is easy as pie.
    • Re: Flash Intro and linking to css website

      Thu, July 14, 2005 - 8:04 AM
      Hi Nila. Thanks for the reply. If I use the insert media option in dreamweaver, the movie will load first before seeing the html page? I'll test it and see for myself.

      Thanks again.
      • Re: Flash Intro and linking to css website

        Thu, July 14, 2005 - 8:40 AM
        If it is the only thing on the page
        and thenadd a redirect after the movie has finished.

        after a 10 second delay if the movie id 10 seconds.

        <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=html-redirect.html">

        Or use actionscript in the flash.

        You might want to give folks the chance to skip the flash as well. Although why I don't know.
        • Re: Flash Intro and linking to css website

          Thu, July 14, 2005 - 12:05 PM
          I would probably use actionscript at the end of your flash intro. 10 sec delay is good only for people with high-speed connection. but if somebody has to wait for the intro to load they may miss the end part b.c. 10 sec will elapse before the animation finishes. and also, "skip intro" is also a good idea. options are always good :)

          so the code that you would put on the last frame of your flash animation would be this:

          ----------
          stop();
          getURL("homepage.html");
          ----------

          and your skip button's code would look like this:

          -------------
          on (release) {
          getURL("mypage.html");
          }
          --------------

          hope this helps.
          -m.

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