Technical Notes

This tutorial explains important facts and words you should know about flash after purchasing a flash template. You can bookmark this page and come back for future reference.

How does it work?

In our flash templates there are two sorts of file format : the source code (*.fla) document and the compressed file (*.swf). The source code is to edit the graphics and design. Only the exported swf file is published on the internet. How can a visitor view it? You can access the file directly (ex : http://www.free-flash-template.com/intro.swf)  or embed it in a html document by specifying certain parameters like height, width, quality, etc. The following example shows the necessary html code to place into a *.html document in order to embed a movie. To change the embedded swf file you have to modify the paramaters in green. Other important parameters are in blue. 

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" id="name" ALIGN="">

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="movie.swf"> 

<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> 

<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> 

<EMBED src="movie.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" NAME="movie" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">

</embed> 

</OBJECT>

Support Team Terminology

Publish - Publish means to export the source fla into a compressed swf file format.

Scene - To navigate from scene to scene (there is usually a loading and movie scene) go to Window (top menu) and choose Scene.

Editing symbols - Right-click on a certain symbol and choose edit in place.

Test Movie - Preview of the movie in swf file format. Go to Movie/Test Movie or press Ctrl-Enter.

Parse html in text fields - This feature is used to incorporate certain html tags into a text field in flash. For example <b>Bold Text</b> will appear as bold text after publishing the movie. It's often used to insert links : <a href="yoursite.com">Link example</a> . This will appear as a link in flash.

Dynamically load - Loads text or images from external files. It means you don't need flash to edit the text of the movie or images. Note that jpeg files can't be loaded into flash with this feature if they were previously saved in Progressive Mode.