For this critique, you must follow these steps in order to be successful.
1. Publish out your Flash project. The default settings will publish a .swf and a .html file.
2. To test it, you can drag your html file into a browser and see what the movie looks like.
3. As discussed, the published files will render your project swf to the upper left section of the browser. To center your swf and/or add a background color, follow these steps:
1. Open the html file that publishes out of Flash, in Dreamweaver (step 1 png)
2. Do not click directly on the swf file (step 2 png)
3. Instead, try to click right at the edge of the swf file. If you do it incorrectly, you'll see the anchor point all around your swf. (Step 2 png) If you do it correctly, you'll see a very thin cursor line blinking...(step 3 png). what you're doing is selecting the table cell that the swf is in vs. selecting the swf itself.
4. Once you have the cell selected, click the center alignment icon (below) to center that table cell. You'll see the swf move over into the center. (step 4 png)
5. You may also change the background color while that cell is selected. Just select Page Properties below the center alignment icon (Everything you need is in the Dreamweaver properties palette). Once you select page properties, you will see a background color swatch which when clicked on, will give you background color choices (step 5 png)
6. Once you close the properties palette, you'll now see your swf centered with the background color. (step 6 png)
7. Save your dreamweaver file, change the name to index.html and drag it into a browser to test (step 7 png)
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After you complete these steps, upload your newly modified index.html file along with your .swf file to your hosting environment and test at the live domain.
That's it. This stuff is very very hard to demonstrate in words. There are numerous ways to do these types of tasks in DW. I'm trying to show you the simplest way I know. If this doesn't make sense or you're having issues, I suggest you come to the 1 hour lab on Sunday from 12-1.
Thx
Scout
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