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Basic flash banner question

by ronr
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I had a flash banner made for me that isnt' clickable.

He gave me 2 files, one swf and one html.

Is there a way for me to make it clickable now by changing the html file or since I don't know anything about flash would I need to have the person edit the flash file?

Thanks, Ron
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  • Profile picture of the author davidsbain
    As far as I can tell from your description you already have everything you need. The SWF file should be uploaded to your server and the html code should be placed inside your page where ever you wish to display the flash file.

    Can you open the html file ?

    As you will need to make sure you place the swf file in the correct place. Programer may have the html file pointing at the root or at the images directory.
    Important to know this otherwise the html code you place on your site will not be able to locate the swf file
    Regards
    David
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    • Profile picture of the author ronr
      Hi David,

      Maybe I didn't make myself clear.

      I uploaded the html and swf file to my server. The flash banner works but since I didn't tell the person who created it that I wanted to make it clickable I'm wondering if I can do that now.

      I've done some searching and from what I can tell it doesn't look lke i can but am trying to get answer from soemone who know.

      Thanks, Ron


      Originally Posted by davidsbain View Post

      As far as I can tell from your description you already have everything you need. The SWF file should be uploaded to your server and the html code should be placed inside your page where ever you wish to display the flash file.

      Can you open the html file ?

      As you will need to make sure you place the swf file in the correct place. Programer may have the html file pointing at the root or at the images directory.
      Important to know this otherwise the html code you place on your site will not be able to locate the swf file
      Regards
      David
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  • Profile picture of the author davidsbain
    If you can locate inside your html code where the swf file is included - should start and end with Object. After the closing object tag include the following so it looks like this
    </object><img src="http : // yoursite dot com/link to here" width="1" height="1">

    This should work
    David
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    • Profile picture of the author ronr
      Thanks David,

      But that didn't work. I contacted the person who created them and he said he would have to redue the banners to make them clickable. But he's a good guy and is only charging a little to change several of them.

      Ron
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      • Profile picture of the author davidsbain
        Ron,
        Does not make any sense why he would have to redo the banner to make it clickable. My Instructions should definately work. I added in spaces on the http : //
        but I assume you would realise that. Also at the very start where I wrote </object> well that should already be in your code and you add from the <img scr tag.

        Hope you get it working
        David
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        • Profile picture of the author ronr
          I don't know flash so I can't tell you why it didn't work either. But regardless he redid them and they are now working. I know he wasn't trying to just get more money from me because he redid them for just a few dollars.

          Ron
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