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Using a Firestarter Intro in a VisualSite Designer website.
This explains how to put a Firestarter Flash Intro into the site you made with VisualSite Designer.
1. If you haven't already created your Intro in Firestarter, do that first. In the SWF you create with Firestarter make sure that you have a Movie Link setup, and the path should be the following:
My_Homepage_FilesPage1.html (Put the frame as _self)
This is the page that the Intro will jump to after it's done.
2. In your VisualSite Designer website, your 1st page should have the Firestarter code in it. The code that is generated by Firestarter. When you create your Intro in Firestarter and you have added your Movie Link correctly, save your SWF and then click View HTML and copy the code it shows you. This code needs to be pasted into your 1st page in VisualSite Designer.
You can do this by click on the HTML tool and copying that code in the Body HTML section.
If you preview the page at this time you won't see the Intro, because the SWF isn't in the right place on your Hard Drive.
3. Add a second page to your website (Or if you already have a second page) and this should be the MAIN page of your site. The "front" page, not including the Intro.
Keep in mind the Intro actually is the front page of your site, and after it's done it jumps you to the second page. You may need to restructure your site for this to work, but it is essential.
4. To test this, export your site to a folder on your PC. (Files > Export > Choose a folder) and you should see a new folder called "My_Homepage_Export". Inside there you should see an index.html, default.htm, etc. This is where your SWF should be. Your SWF intro file should be in the same directory as the index.html and those files.
Note: If you only see default.htm in that directory, make 2 copies of it and name them index.htm and index.html and leave them in the same directory.
Inside that directory you should see a subdirectory called "My_Homepage_Files". This is where the page your Intro will jump to will reside. In this example we have it jump to Page1.html
So to recap you should have an intro you created with Firestarter (i.e. intro.swf), and on the 1st page of your site in VisualSite Designer you should copy the code from Firestarter into it. The 2nd page of your website should be your 'main' page. Export the site (Files > Export) and copy the SWF into the same directory as the index.html file.
When putting this site on a webserver, you would click the Send button to send your site, and then you would need to upload the SWF manually.
You would need to use an FTP program to connect to your webserver, or try putting in your FTP address into your address bar of your browser, and copying the SWF to the same folder as the index.html, etc.
1. If you haven't already created your Intro in Firestarter, do that first. In the SWF you create with Firestarter make sure that you have a Movie Link setup, and the path should be the following:
My_Homepage_FilesPage1.html (Put the frame as _self)
This is the page that the Intro will jump to after it's done.
2. In your VisualSite Designer website, your 1st page should have the Firestarter code in it. The code that is generated by Firestarter. When you create your Intro in Firestarter and you have added your Movie Link correctly, save your SWF and then click View HTML and copy the code it shows you. This code needs to be pasted into your 1st page in VisualSite Designer.
You can do this by click on the HTML tool and copying that code in the Body HTML section.
If you preview the page at this time you won't see the Intro, because the SWF isn't in the right place on your Hard Drive.
3. Add a second page to your website (Or if you already have a second page) and this should be the MAIN page of your site. The "front" page, not including the Intro.
Keep in mind the Intro actually is the front page of your site, and after it's done it jumps you to the second page. You may need to restructure your site for this to work, but it is essential.
4. To test this, export your site to a folder on your PC. (Files > Export > Choose a folder) and you should see a new folder called "My_Homepage_Export". Inside there you should see an index.html, default.htm, etc. This is where your SWF should be. Your SWF intro file should be in the same directory as the index.html and those files.
Note: If you only see default.htm in that directory, make 2 copies of it and name them index.htm and index.html and leave them in the same directory.
Inside that directory you should see a subdirectory called "My_Homepage_Files". This is where the page your Intro will jump to will reside. In this example we have it jump to Page1.html
So to recap you should have an intro you created with Firestarter (i.e. intro.swf), and on the 1st page of your site in VisualSite Designer you should copy the code from Firestarter into it. The 2nd page of your website should be your 'main' page. Export the site (Files > Export) and copy the SWF into the same directory as the index.html file.
When putting this site on a webserver, you would click the Send button to send your site, and then you would need to upload the SWF manually.
You would need to use an FTP program to connect to your webserver, or try putting in your FTP address into your address bar of your browser, and copying the SWF to the same folder as the index.html, etc.
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