I’m a newbie and I’m having some trouble getting a rotating banner I downloaded to actually work on my home page.
So I’m using FrontPage 2003. I’ve got my index page open and I select Insert, Picture, Movie in Flash Format. I browse through my subfolder and select the swf file. But it will not play!
However, when I follow the exact same steps, but on a page that is located within the subfolder where all the files are located, the video plays just fine. So I know it probably has something to do with my file path, but I just can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. My files are located like this:
root -
index.html
subfolder-
(There is the deploy folder which has two subfolders in it - banner and js.)
deploy/
banner/content/images/image1.jpg
banner/content/images/image2.jpg
banner/content/images/image3.jpg
banner/content/images/image4.jpg
banner/xml/banner.xml
js/expressInstall.swf
js/swfobject.js
(Within the deploy folder I also have a test page.)
test.html
preview.swf
I want preview.swf to play on my root index.html page, but right now it will only play on my test.html page.
test.html code:
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“deploy/js/swfobject.js”></script>
<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000” id=“obj1” codebase=“http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0” border=“0” width=“643” height=“200”>
<param name=“movie” value=“preview.swf”>
<param name=“quality” value=“High”>
<embed src=“preview.swf” pluginspage=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” name=“obj1” width=“643” height=“200” quality=“High”></object>
index.html code:
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“deploy/js/swfobject.js”></script>
<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000” id=“obj1” codebase=“http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0” border=“0” width=“160” height=“160”>
<param name=“movie” value=“deploy/preview.swf”>
<param name=“quality” value=“High”>
<embed src=“deploy/preview.swf” pluginspage=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” name=“obj1” width=“160” height=“160”></object>
I’ve tried copying and pasting all of the files so they’re in the root folder, and then embedding the swf, and it still doesn’t work. I’ve tried editing the banner.xml page and telling all the folder paths to start from the root folder, and that hasn’t worked either. Please help! If you need me to send you the files, please just let me know where I can email them for help. Thanks.
