[Fernando Mol]

This is weird. I see your file is not just a flv inside a player, you are trying to create a videobox. Right? The thing is, if there’s anything inside the Flash when you placed the video that points to the external controller and is out of date now, you’ll need to fix it inside Flash. My guess.

Try finding any updates for Flash

go to the menu >Help >Updates

Then place your video again and publish. If it’s something about having an old software then Adobe should be making some fix.

If there’s no fix, try placing your FLV directly in Dreamweaver and see if that works. This will tell you if there’s a code problem or something inside your Flash file.

I hope this helps

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[Fernando Mol]

I see…

Jameson suggested to use a different method for embed the swf. Let’s try that. If you are familiar with jQuery, go for the tools Jameson posted.

Personally, I have used swfobject in the past with nice results. You can download it from here:

https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

You need to download the last version of swfobject. This will be a zip file. Unzip and place the extracted files in your site. Upload. Don’t forget to read the instructions, I may be forgetting something.

Then, download the swfobject generator. Air or HTML. It’s a very simple application that will allow you, by defining some parameters, to generate the necessary code you’ll need to place in your actual page.

I hope this helps

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[Fernando Mol]

I’m using Windows Vista 64 bit.

Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer show the video.

This is what I get in Firefox:

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[Fernando Mol]

You can try placing your swf again.

-Open your page
-In design view, place the cursor where you want your movie to be
-Go to the menu >Insert >Media >SWF

Save and test.

If your movie works going directly to it, then I have to tell you, it doesn’t in my computer (Vista 64 bits). So there’s a possibility that the swf is troubled.

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[Fernando Mol]

The HTML code seems to be OK.

I accessed the SWF directly and it doesn’t work.

Jameson is right on suggesting an alternate way to place the swf.

I will assume (correct me if I’m wrong),

-first, you tried placing the swf directly on Dreamweaver and uploaded all the generated files. Javascript, swf controls, etc. It didn’t worked.

-then, you deleted the swf and all the links that DW created for external javascript files.

-from Flash, you published again creating an HTML page. Copy/Pasted the code inside DW. It didn’t worked again.

-then, you deleted all the code that you pasted and tried again with jQuery.

If all of this is true, you have something wrong inside your swf file. You need to debug in Flash.

I hope this helps

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[Fernando Mol]

Can you please describe more about what exactly is the problem with your site?

Also, if you can write the exact message Dreamweaver is giving you it would be helpful.

I can’t see your flash movie (the blue guitars) in Firefox or Safari on Vista64, on IE8 it works fine.

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[Fernando Mol]

A cookie is a little file saved in the computer of the user. There you can save a value for a variable, then use the variable in your page.

In your example, you can save the color for the BG in the cookie, then load it each time the user enter your site.

I don’t have an example for the code you need, but you can take a look in the w3schools to understand how cookies work.

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[Fernando Mol]

Dreamweaver has some useful behaviors to manage a database, you can create a dynamic website without manually placing any code, but you will still need to understand how databases work and if you get into a problem you’ll need to get your hands dirty with the code anyway.

Using a CMS like wordpress can be the solution for you, since you have a friend that already know how to use it. But if you get ambitious about the look and feel you will have to get into CSS no matter what.

Personally I’ll start learning CSS, then a programming language, since the learning curve is shorter for CSS (I think).

I hope this helps

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[Fernando Mol]

Wiggle for position and rotation of the masks?

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[Fernando Mol]

Another way could be to create a Null, make it rotate like a pendulum and loop (you can use the loopOut expression).

Now, you can animate the position of the Null from up to down in a straight line and make it stop. You can also ease the stop if you want.

Then, you’ll just need to parent your text to the Null and it will follow the combined movements.

I hope this helps

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