How to Upload Flash Onto a Web Page
- 1). Open Adobe Flash and select the Flash project you want to embed for upload onto a web page.
- 2). Press "File" and choose "Save As," to open the save dialogue box. Save the project to the same location, but take note of the file name and where it is located.
- 3). Press "CTRL+Enter" to publish a Flash movie (SWF).
- 4). Open the web page where you want to insert the Flash movie with the HTML editor (see Resources).
- 5). Decide where to place the Flash movie. This will depend on the size and intended use of the Flash movie. For example, place a horizontal banner on the top or bottom and a vertical banner on one of the sides.
- 6). Find the corresponding section of code for the selected area of the web page. Some HTML editors, such as Adobe Dreamweaver and NVU, have a split screen layout that shows the visual layout and the HTML code at the same time. This allows a designer to click in a specific spot on the visual layout and shows the corresponding section of the HTML code, making it simple to paste the embed code in the appropriate spot.
- 7). Embed the Flash movie by pasting the embed code into the appropriate location of the HTML code. Substitute the "XXX" for the width and height with the dimensions of the Flash movie and the "somefilename.swf" with the name of the SWF file created from the Flash project. All of this information is in Flash.
<object>
<param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
<embed src="somefilename.swf">
</embed>
</object> - 8). Save the changes to the web page in the HTML editor. Take note of where the web page file is located on the hard drive.
- 9). Find the SWF file created from the Flash project in the first few steps, and copy it to the same folder as the web page edited in the previous step.
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Open the FTP program (see Resources) and connect to the web server where the website is hosted. - 11
Upload the web page file (HTML file) and the Flash movie file (SWF file) to the same website folder. - 12
Open a web browser and navigate to the web page to see how the Flash movie performs online. The web page address is www.yourdomain.com/webpagename.html, but replace "yourdomain" with the name of your domain and "webpagename" with the name of your web page.
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