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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008Trying to add Flash Intro to my HTML site
Hi everybody. I have an HTML site that I would like to add a Flash Intro to. I would like the Flash intro page to play (about 30 seconds) then change to the first page of my HTML site. I have searched through several books, Lynda.com, and google, but can't come up with a good solution. Would someone be kind enough to help? Thanks in advance. Brian Create your flash intro, on the last frame of the animation, place a frame action of getURL("http://www.yourDomainName.com/homepage.html", "_self"); export to swf. Create a new html page, import the swf file, save this html page as index.html (you may have to rename your existing html page - in the code, I used homepage.html as an example). Upload homepage.html, if you used Dreamweaver, it should automatically create a scripts folder when you embedded the swf file into your html page - so upload that script folder too, upload the intro swf file and if you changed your existing html page, upload that too. First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this issue. I do appreciate it. I am not sure that I understand parts of your instructions, though. I will repeat them in my own words and if you can take a look that would really help. I am using Dreamweaver and Flash CS3. - Create my Flash Intro and on the last frame of the animation add an Action of: getURL("http://yourDomainName.com/homepage.html","_self"); yourDomainName=my website and homepage.html=index.html. - Publish this file as a .swf - Using Dreamweaver, make a new page - Import .swf file into this new page <<<<<<<<< Don't understand this part - Upload Index.html - Save this file as index.html - Upload the scripts folder when embedding the .swf file Upload the Intro.swf file Sorry I am being so "slow" about understanding this. Really do appreciate your time and help. Brian Since you want people to see your flash intro before your html page, you will have to rename your existing html page to something like homepage.html. When people go to your domain name, file names such as index, default (I think there might be a few others) will be automatically loaded first. Because of this, your flash intro (once placed into an html page) will have to be named index.html. After creating your flash intro, export it to a swf file. Go into DW and create a new html page (you need a container for your flash intro). On the menu bar of DW, click Insert, then Media, then Flash. You may want to create a table or a div tag before hand in order to center the flash file (then you would just insert the flash file into that table or div tag). if you download my example stuff http://www.shan-dysigns.com/flash/flashIntro.zip, you will see a flash document, swf file, the index.html page which holds the flash intro swf file, a hopepage.html file, and a folder DW automatically creates when you insert Flash content. Download the zip file and save it in a temp folder somewhere. Go to Windows Explorer (assuming you are on a PC), and double click the index.html page (I don't know if your browser will ask if it's ok to run scripts, but it's just the script from DW allowing the flash). You should see the 10 seconds of the flash intro, then you will be redirected to the homepage.html file when the intro is finished. If you look at the flash document, on the last layer where I have the script, there is an absolute path (currently commented out), and a relative path. Using the relative path will allow you to test this without having to upload to a server. In order to test all this on a server, you will need to upload all the files and the folder to a server (you may want to create a test folder on the server to place these files in). Make sure you change the flash document's code to the absolute path and comment out the relative one, and make sure to change the domain name to yours, export the flash file and upload the new swf along with the other files and folder. Then go to yourDomainName.com/test, and you should see everything. I don't know how else to explain any of this... Thank you very much for your help. With your instructions, I finally get it. :confused; It never seems that complicated after someone explains it. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing your website once it's up and running. Brian Sometimes it just takes a step back (or a visual in this case) to interpret someone's instructions. Some times I catch myself helping people and forget they may not know (or may call it differently) certain things. I'm glad you got it. I was about to have to bop you in the head :) Ha, ha, ha... Well, if that's the case... I'm glad I finally got it too. Besides, if you started to smack me in the head, my wife wouldn't have anything to do... LOL. Thanks again for your help. Brian Hi I am trying to develop a similar site where the intro is a movie and once the movie finishes jumps right to the homepage.html I tried to download your sample but once i open the index i only see the video or the animation looping but not jumping to the homepage? can you help me many thanks Mike You have to download all the files and place them in a folder, then open the index.html file using windows explorer. Everything else links within. |
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