Specifications

CHAPTER 4

Basic Tasks: Creating a

banner, Part 3

This is Part 3 of a three-part article on how to build a simple animated

banner in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 or Macromedia Flash Professional 8,

and add it to a web page using Macromedia Dreamweaver. In this final

part, you learn about file size, banner standards, how to set publish

settings, how to add the banner to a Dreamweaver web page, and how to

add Macromedia Flash Player detection.

You must have Dreamweaver MX 2004 or Dreamweaver 8 installed to

complete most of Part 3 of the tutorial. If you don't use Dreamweaver, you

can complete the first part of this article and use the HTML that Flash

outputs with a different HTML editor. However, you won't be able to

enjoy some of the benefits of using Flash and Dreamweaver together.

See the introduction to “Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 1” on page 25

for a desecription of Part 1, 2, and 3 of this tutorial.

You do not need any prerequisite knowledge to complete these tutorials,

however you should complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial before you

start Part 3.

In Part 3 of this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Examine the completed FLA file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Checking your publish settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Inserting Flash on a Dreamweaver site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Using roundtrip editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Checking for Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Test the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76