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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jdjtcagle on June 29, 2004, 10:31:45 am

Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 29, 2004, 10:31:45 am
Ok so I made a basic flash menu for a website.
Next I make the website Index...
Now I'm stuck, I'm trying to get that flash on to my index, but how?
Can you do it on Image Ready?
Photoshop?
I'm lost...:blah:

Any help would be really appreciated :)

What?
whenever I try it on Dreamweaver.  My screen gets distorted and there's F logo, but it doesn't work :(

(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9067/3700.jpg)
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 29, 2004, 12:12:34 pm
*bump*
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Falcon on June 29, 2004, 12:18:55 pm
*denied*
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2004, 12:26:55 pm
check you have the most recent flash plugin?

i dunno, i remember having this problem back like three years ago when they taught us dreamweaver at school.  the best solution is to screw dreamweaver, and do it in Flash and notepad ;)
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 29, 2004, 12:41:14 pm
:nod:  Point out a site that shows the HTML secrets :)
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2004, 02:32:26 pm
www.htmlgoodies.com is what i used as reference back in the day. a great site, i hope it's still around.

and if you need any HTML or Flash help, post here and one of us will help :)
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: vyper on June 29, 2004, 06:54:44 pm
Is this a legit project or just a personal one?
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 29, 2004, 07:06:43 pm
I was going to make it a newbie website, Like the Wiki and Kara's FAQ all in one website and other freespace stuff
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: vyper on June 29, 2004, 07:33:08 pm
Ah, n/m my idea of Shockwave would be overkill.
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: karajorma on June 30, 2004, 07:34:46 am
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Originally posted by jdjtcagle
I was going to make it a newbie website, Like the Wiki and Kara's FAQ all in one website and other freespace stuff


*Voice of experience speaks*

Put FAQ type stuff on the wiki. It's a ***** to keep up to date on your own.  My own FAQ is getting really out of date now. Gotta move more of it over.
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 30, 2004, 01:15:14 pm
It was actually links to those places. :)
cause right now when a newbie comes we give him a bunch of different links.  I'll just organize them and add whats needed
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Kazan on June 30, 2004, 05:08:45 pm
Lesson 1) Never use WYSIWYG
Lesson 2) Never USE WYSIWYG
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 30, 2004, 05:12:11 pm
what is WYSIWYG??
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: aldo_14 on June 30, 2004, 05:42:35 pm
What You See Is What You Get

Standard anacronym for GUI-based editing.  Key part of making programs and technology accessible.
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Kazan on June 30, 2004, 07:05:09 pm
in the case of HTML you should never your WYSIWYG - there are other things that it's ok for {fred2}
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Setekh on June 30, 2004, 10:04:19 pm
WYSIWYG HTML ends up giving you terrible code that's completely messy and not useful if you want to change one tiny bit here or there. Create your HTML using a text-editor.
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 30, 2004, 10:27:45 pm
Ok, I fixed my problem :)  I was trying to enter a flash movie instead a flash player deal
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: aldo_14 on July 01, 2004, 04:13:33 am
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Originally posted by Kazan
in the case of HTML you should never your WYSIWYG - there are other things that it's ok for {fred2}


I would say that depends on the HTML - if it's a quick & amateur site, then it's doubtful how much benefit you'd get from 'hand-coding' it.  Maybe cut out a few bits of obfuscated or unecessary code, but that stuff is invisible to the viewer anyways.

Although we should probably all be using XML/XSL/XHTML nowadays. :)
Title: Meh, I'm confused...
Post by: Ryx on July 01, 2004, 05:38:04 am
I prefer writing HTML and what-not in a text editor.

For my website, I'm going for XHTML. Not that tricky really.