Hello,

I need to add a flash (.swf) banner ad I got from a client to my website. I checked the forums and saw the reference to a help article http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … r-website.

I got Firestarter, but cannot get the .swf file to open in Firestarter. Any ideas?

Hiya Robert,

Although I can't answer anything on Firestarter, I am wondering is the ad already set to go to put on the site? If so you may not need to open it in another program and may just need to put the video into your page in VSD most likely using the HTML Tool or similar tool in the program. Hopefully Eric or someone with VSD knowledge will be able to tell you more, but mostly just wanted to make sure if the banner ad was already completed and ready as it most likely doesn't need anything to do with Firestarter if it is. If not well then... next helper should be able to give you more information

Thanks for the reply. It is complete. The tutorial talked about using Firestart to generate the html code. I suppose I could upload it to server and write html to find and load it, but that is beyond my limited brain capacity.

Hi Robert,
I'm pretty sure that if you use this code:

and just change the name and the sizes it should work for your banner, give it a go and please let them know if that works.

I use some .swf files for slide shows on my site they are called alternate slide show on the interior jobs examples the one of the garage floor epoxy if you click on the alt slide show selection it opens the swf file which takes up the whole page and then click through it and then either colose the window or click the go back
if you want something like that you can look at the source code and use the if you like
http://www.workhorsepainting.com/garage … nting.html
source code would be on the previous link
http://www.workhorsepainting.com/GFE1.swf
swf file the previous link

This is the code for the swf file on my previous entry includes all of the mouse over stuff

<div class="Object9412"><a target="_self" href="http://www.workhorsepainting.com/GFE1.swf" onMouseOver='img_mo0.src="files/mo_IMG_243.jpg"' onMouseOut='img_mo0.src="files/IMG_243.jpg"'><img src="files/IMG_243.jpg" name="img_mo0" width="101px" height="43px" alt="Garage Floor Epoxy Slide Show Link" title="Garage Floor Epoxy Slide Show Link"></a></div>

Thanks Bruzer,

I uploaded the file, modified the code and it work perfectly.

Thanks!

Good news is that the banner ad displays well. But every time I try to create a link with the flash file object (to the client's website) the program crashes. Can you create links for flash files in VSD?

I have not tried it but use Firestarter, create a link and look at the code. or Google it, I am sure you will see how it is done.

I have been creating my swf files with the open office.org application