i made a web based in flash for my friend. it looked good on my computer. it shows all. but when i uploaded it, it became stretched and cut. is it because the resolution is different? it there a html modification? how do i fix it?
help…
cheers…
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republish the file and the html for it, put it up on the web again…
note web windows take up space so 800x600 flash will get chopped for instance
Search the help manual for “scale attributes” and, as if by magic, it will show you the attributes you can insert into your HTML document.
i made it in 1024 x 768. but its chopped a little bit in lower resolution. how i can fix it? so whatever resolution is visitor can see the full pages.
i tried to set the scale attribute in “show all” (dreamwaver) but it didn’t work…
n how about if the resolution is higher? how does it look?
here s the link www.mermaids-rock.com
cheers…
800x600 is standard, can get clever resize code somewhere
the site is way too big
I assume you have a massive screen or ultra high res
randomagain is right. The dimensions of your site are just way too big.
[QUOTE=Chrysant;2347056]i made it in 1024 x 768. but its chopped a little bit in lower resolution. how i can fix it? so whatever resolution is visitor can see the full pages.
i tried to set the scale attribute in “show all” (dreamwaver) but it didn’t work…
n how about if the resolution is higher? how does it look?
here is the link… www.mermaids-rock.com
cheers…[/QUOTE]
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thanks for the reply…
so, what should i do to reduce the dimension? should i edit from the beginning, one by one? layer by layer?
n where i can get the resize code? what is it like? in action script? or html code?
uuh… so stupid i m :sen: hiks…s
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Perhaps I am wrong here on how to go about it. (If I am - and there is a better way - then, no doubt, someone here will post the better alternative.)
Part of this approach depends upon if you actually have your site items on the stage or if they are linked from the library and put in place using Actionscript. The following train of thought is dealing with items that you actually have placed on the stage.
If you actually have done your entire site in Actionscript then none of what I am about to outline is useful (except for how to modify the size of your dimensions).
First, in your file dimensions (MODIFY>DOCUMENT) change the dimensions to something more in line with the normal website size.
Second, at the top of your timeline are three icons. The eye, the lock and the empty square. Perhaps you are already aware of what these three icons do.
Clicking in the eye layer on any of these makes the content of that layer not visible.
Clicking in the lock layer locks the content of that layer from being moved, added to or subtracted from.
Clicking on the empty box in a layer makes it so that the content of that layer is only visible in an outline form.
Once you have your dimensions changed to where you want the overall size of the website to be (step one above), click on the lock at the top of the timeline. This locks in place the content for all the layers. You don’t want to accidentally change something. You have, in my opinion, a nice looking website. It just needs to be changed…layer-by-layer…to a more friendly downloadable size.
Now then also click on the empty box icon at the top of the layers. This will make all your content that is actually on the stage appear in outline form.
You should now see all your onstage items in outline form set against the white background of the adjusted dimensions of your site. In other words, you can now see how to replace the items where you want them to be within the new dimensions.
I would start with your background layer first. Unlock its layer only and adjust it.
Your overall goal is to reduce the size of your fla file. A simple (and bad) assumption to make is just to use like the transform tool to make an item smaller. Yes, you are adjusting the item to appear smaller but you are not actually adjusting the file size of the original item.
We have to go back to the original item itself and make the adjustment there so that the jpg, png, gif or whatever format is smaller so that its actual file size becomes smaller.
In your library right click on your imported background image. In the menu that comes up you will see an option called Edit With. Click on that and then select Photoshop, Fireworks or whatever you use.
Photoshop (or whatever) will open with that image. Here change the image size to the same size as the new dimensions of your Flash file. And save the changes. When you go back to Flash it will automatically change the dimensions of your background image.
Thus you have not only made the image smaller, but you have actually changed its file size to a smaller size that will effect your download time in a positive way.
(I assume you are smart enough to have kept original copies of your images in their original states. Once you start adjusting image sizes in like Photoshop, etc. it can be nearly impossible (depending upon what it is you have done) to get it back to its original. If you had, for example, an image whose original resolution was 300 dpi and then, for the Web, you changed it to 72 dpi, forget the notion of changing it back to 300 dpi. Where if you’ve kept a copy of the original - at its original resolution - you always have that to fall back upon.)
When you have the background layer to where you want it make sure its layer is relocked (so it does not accidentally get messed up) and start adjusting the remainder items in your site.
This can be time consuming. And, like I said at the start, maybe somebody here has a much better, faster approach. But it is the only way I know of meeting your original question of how to make the whole thing smaller.
If you’ve actually inserted your items via Actionscript…which can also help download time…you still would want to change the original images file size.
Using Actionscript to do this is a whole other topic.
I’ve attached a zip file with an fla example of using Actionscript to bring an image on to the stage. The explanation of the code and process can be found as comments in the actions panel in the actions layer. (Select the first frame in the actions layer and open your actions panel.)
Obviously you would not have a website with dimensions of 200 x 160. I just made it so small so that I could upload it here.
I hope some/all of this is useful to you.
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thanks for the reply…
so, what should i do to reduce the dimension? should i edit from the beginning, one by one? layer by layer?
n where i can get the resize code? what is it like? in action script? or html code?
uuh… so stupid i m :sen: hiks…s
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Thank you very much…:flower:
You are very welcome.
[QUOTE=Chrysant;2349474]Thank you very much…:flower:[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=randomagain;2347480]800x600 is standard. The site is way too big. I assume you have a massive screen or ultra high res[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=small_guy;2347568]randomagain is right. The dimensions of your site are just way too big.[/QUOTE]
800x600?
- 1024x768 * 46%
- 1280x1024 30%
- 800x600 7% <---- standard ?
- 1152x864 3%
- other 14%
- The majority of web users on planet Earth are currently using 1024 x 768 as their desktop resolution.
I know you have to factor in viewable area with all the browser chrome and all but I think its safe to say 800x600 is not the norm anymore.
The dimensions of my current portfolio site (http://www.seaborn.us) are 990 x 575 which, I guess, sort of puts me somewhere in the middle of things…dimension wise.
[QUOTE=prg9;2349548]800x600?
I know you have to factor in viewable area with all the browser chrome and all but I think its safe to say 800x600 is not the norm anymore.
:2c:[/QUOTE]
actually, i haven’t edited it yet (what small guy taught me). my desktop resolution is 1024x768. i changed my desktop resolution into 800x600, the web just went smaller, not chopped. but sometime i looked at it in an internet cafe, it was chopped. i didn’t know what’s the resolution they used. and i don’t know why it was chopped. any answer?
i am in Indonesia. n everybody knows the internet connection here is not quite good. also the computer (the desktop resolution, hardware specification, etc) sometime is lower than the entire world. but the website target visitor is for outside Indonesia.
so, it is a big problem? any suggestion, guys…? (because i am a little bit lazy to edit it layer by layer hehehe… but if it is a problem, i will edit it like small guy taught me).
cheers…
