[Ian Haney]

I want to put a flash banner in my html page using notepad, how is it I go about doing this.

Please help

Thanks

[Thomas Thomassen]

Alistapart got some good articles on methods of embedding Flash. This is the latest I think:
http://www.alistapar...hembedcagematch

[J.P]

dont forget to upload the file aswell

[Dizi]

you could always export your banner as an html document in flash and look at how it does the code

[SEOLover]

Embed your flash using the following code:

<object width="468" height="60">
	<param name="movie" value="bannerfilename.swf">
	<embed src="bannerfilename.swf" width="468" height="60">
	</embed>
</object>

Hope that helps you

[Aquavibe]

well, if i were you, i would use Adobe Dreamweaver ... it's much easier, you just click the "Flash Animation" button, browse, and add it... it's too hard writing websites in Notepad. it's a good thing, because you'll have your coding skill well developed... but it's something that was done 4-5 years ago i think

[angstmann]

Not sure whether you meant text editors in general or just Notepad thats not used nowadays, because text editors certainly arent going to go out of fashion any time soon...! Dont get me wrong, I do use Dreamweaver for a few things (tables mainly) but am now totally reliant on a text editor for all my development. This wasn't the case at all about 6 months ago though...

Had some interesting times recently embedding Flash. Tried numerous things. The standard embed code mentioned above seemed to work ok. The code spat out from Dreamweaver is crazy in comparison... allsorts of javascript in the head. Way too excessive I think.

[SonicWeb]

Aquavibe, on Oct 12 2007, 10:27 PM, said:

well, if i were you, i would use Adobe Dreamweaver ... it's much easier, you just click the "Flash Animation" button, browse, and add it... it's too hard writing websites in Notepad. it's a good thing, because you'll have your coding skill well developed... but it's something that was done 4-5 years ago i think

Dreamweaver is starting to be used less, notepad ++ or something similar is the way forward. Dreamweaver generate extra useless code

[Design Simple Web]

maby generate extra code but its still easyst way to do this. Im use Dreamweaver to design all of my websites

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http://designsimpleweb.com

[antom]

Ahh the old Dreamweaver debate... personally I avoid it like the plague, but still have it installed. Whenever I try and open up and sort of XHTML / CSS file and Dreamweaver starts to kick in, I end up screaming at my screen until it's finished loading. Then I can close it... I should really sort that out

[angstmann]

antom, on Dec 12 2007, 14:10, said:

Ahh the old Dreamweaver debate... personally I avoid it like the plague, but still have it installed. Whenever I try and open up and sort of XHTML / CSS file and Dreamweaver starts to kick in, I end up screaming at my screen until it's finished loading. Then I can close it... I should really sort that out

That sounds SO familiar!

[Eskymo]

this is how I embed flash:

<div id="flashcontent">
		<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,22,0" width="707" height="205">
			<param name="movie" value="flashfile.swf" />
   			<param name="quality" value="high" />
			<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
	<!--[if !IE]> <-->
		<object data="flashfile.swf.swf" width="707" height="205" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
			  <param name="quality" value="high" />
			  <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
			  <param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
		</object>
	<!--> <![endif]-->
	  </object>
	</div>

it validates and works for me.

[The Visual-W-iser]

Design Simple Web, on Nov 6 2007, 18:10, said:

maby generate extra code but its still easyst way to do this. Im use Dreamweaver to design all of my websites

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http://designsimpleweb.com

Its not quick if your client says its not doing this in that and you have to trawl code that you havent written to find out why. Also if you accidently drag something it writes code you didnt know about. I am just returning to the web industry so new dreamweaver may have improved, which I think it has as it looks abit of a homesite / dreamweaver mix now.

People who can only use dreamweaver are usually the ones who big it up. I did say usually!

For changes I usually find view source , find and replace in IE, is quicker and very precise. you then save changes in notepad and refresh the page to check its OK.

Dreamweaver does write clean code if you turn off the re-write code options in preferences, but its still possible to open the file up on someone elses machine who's dreamweaver is re-writing code and end up with dirt in the source.