Linking

[adict_drek]

I am working on a site that I created movieclip buttons in flash. I know my way around flash and I use dreamweaver. When I made sites before in dreamweaver I would just link to the directory and upload the whole thing. Seems like the easiest and painless way but when I made these movieclip buttons I have no idea how to do this. I cant link them using dreamweaver, I have to use code in flash. I understand how to link to an IP but not how to link to my dreamweaver directory. I think it's just some easy code but I can't find online anywhere how to do it. If you need some referance material just tell me what you want to see. Thanks

 

[voodish]

Although I would advise against using flash for navigation due to accessibility issues, you can carry out your task in a multitude of ways, all very simple:

Flash will allow you to use relative linking as well as full path URL linking, the later will obviously only work when you have the site on the web.

Code it, linking files in HTML is properly the easiest lesson to learn, you simply wrap the text / image / flash button etc. in an anchor tag <a> </a>, For example:

<a href="destination" title="descriptive text">Flash button</a>

But seriously, drop the flash for navigation, use CSS!

 

[adict_drek]

I've thought of that but the kind of website im making is very artistic and flash buttons is the only way I can make the animation that im looking for. I was thinking of doing the web linking but I was thinking that it would really suck to test before I had to upload. With the other way would I write that in my base html code. I dont have a lot of code experiance so im trying to avoid that but I guess its not a bad idea to start learning more about it.

 

[voodish]

1. Create a basic sitemap for your site, for example what are your main navigation links ie. home, about, services, contact

2. Create the navigation completely in flash as one entity.

3. Use Flash scripting (is it Action Script?) to link directly to those pages in your sitemap tree. It is very easy from what I remember, you can simply enter a URL of the page you want the button to go to after clicking; probably an onClick event or something similar; been a while since I used Flash for navigation (2001/2 I think!!).

4. Load up dreamweaver and dump the flash object into your header.php or sidebar.php etc. and away you go.