Chapter 4: Basic Tasks: Creating A Banner, Part 3 - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

CHAPTER 4
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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
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