Adding a Sig banner

[Torn Rose]

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.....

[Cleo]

Try this code for your sig.

<a href="http://www.URL.com" target="_blank">
<embed src="http://www.URLTOFLASHFILE.swf" quality="high" width="130" height="80" style="width: 130px; height: 80px; text-align: left; clear: left;">
</a>

[Torn Rose]

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

Any Idea's?

BTW, THANK YOU!

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

[Surfn]

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

Any Idea's?

BTW, THANK YOU!

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

Did you add </a> to the end?

[Torn Rose]

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

hmmmmmm......

[Cleo]

Hmmm, it only acts like it is clickable.

Seems to ignore the <a> tag in html.

Do you have it set to be clickable in Flash?

[Torn Rose]

ummm.... "set as clickable"?

[Torn Rose]

<a href="http://www.katcash.com" target="_blank">
<embed src="http://www.katvixen.com/kvbanners/katcash.swf" quality="high" width="120" height="60" style="width: 120px; height: 60px; text-align: left; clear: left;">
</a>

this is what I have.

[Cleo]

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.

[Torn Rose]

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

[Cleo]

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");
}

[Torn Rose]

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!

[Cleo]

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

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

[Torn Rose]

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!

[Cleo]

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.

[Torn Rose]

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......

[Cleo]

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.

[Torn Rose]

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)

[Cleo]

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.