Adding a Sig banner
 

I made my first flash banner, took me a few hours to figure out to make it and when I finally get something worth using, I can't get it to show up as my sig.

It's a 120 x 60 .swf file would that be the problem?

I went looking for sig rules but I'm not finding anything.....

Talk about a bubble being burst.....


|sad|

Try this code for your sig.

WOW you got it to show up, and the link is there but it's not clickable..... We are so Close!|bananna|

Any Idea's?

BTW, THANK YOU!|bow|

I speant alot of time on this last night and really didn't think it would be possible.

Did you add to the end?

yes, I copied and paste Cleo's code and replaced the url, src and width/ht.

hmmmmmm......

Hmmm, it only acts like it is clickable. :(

Seems to ignore the tag in html.

Do you have it set to be clickable in Flash?

ummm.... "set as clickable"?

this is what I have.

It has been awhile since I've worked in Flash so I may not word this exactly correct…

In Flash you need to assign a go to action to the movie which is Flash's way of making a movie linked to a URL when you click on it.

I HATE FLASH!|raygun|

I used SWISH to make this (even tho I have Flash, no idea how to use it) and I thought I saved the file before closing it but I didn't, so I would have to start all over again... which isnt a biggie, since I see a change or 2.

But I think I will try and edit it in Flash first

First you need to right mouse click on your movie and create a Symbol. It can just be an invisible image on the top layer.

Then you need to add this action to your symbol.
on (release) {
getURL("http://YOURURL.com", "_blank");
}

HAHA! Figured it out!

Thank You Both!

I had to redo it, but didnt take me near as long, I'll mess with it more later.

THANKS!

Kewl, so what did you do to get it working?

You can most likely remove the opening and closing tags from your sig code if you haven't already.

Actually the code is fine, I didn’t mess with that, just uploaded the new image.

I redid the whole thing from start and in SWISH I added a "button" then gave it a "FS Command" for "press" and then "go to" the url.

It's easy now that I know, but a lot of steps to get to it.

In my testing I didn’t have the "on press" and after it ran it took me to the URL automatically, I think had I left it there I might have gotten into trouble lol..... But I sure would have had a lot of traffic!

I've heard good things about SWISH, but have never tried it.

A few years ago I was actually getting pretty good in Flash, but then realized that many places did accept it so I stopped using it and have pretty much forgotten much of what I learned.

I just got SWISH a few days ago, I had FLASH 4 for years and got FLASH MX 2004 a few weeks ago, and after countless hours I still can not do anything in FLASH.

SWISH is much easier.... MUCH MUCH MUCH......

For my I had to do the the tutorials in Flash and then after much beating my head into the wall I started doing some decent stuff.

I really wished more places accepted Flash ads.

I've always been interested in FLASH, since I first saw it. But never put the time into it, and never thought of what I could do with it. I even have the FLASH 4 bible, I'm not sure I ever opened it.

But I’m so cheap I hated the idea of paying for a simple sig banner which is all I wanted. I also noticed in SWISH that I can only save in a .swf file, but in FLASH I can save in .gif and whatever else, I just don’t know if they will look/work the same as it would in .swf

I just wish I had talent for design, I LOVE doing it, I just SUCK, so I'm giving up on it site wise. Gonna pay for someone else, so when I don't like something I can yell at them.... =o)

Yeah you can save as a GIF or movie file, but the file size would be much larger.

Personally I like The visual quickstart guide to Flash. Actually I like all the books from this series. The show an example with screen shots of what it is you need to do and have a good index for looking up things.