Pop up flash advertisements

[mitcho]

Hi, I want to make one of those flash pop up advertisements. you know sometime you go to a website and they are having a special promotion, and as soon as the page loads up theres like this floating flash ad in the centre of the page with a close button so you can make it dissapear.

can someone tell me how this is done?

thanks

[XDudedotcom]

They used to be called Chromeless Windows, and only worked in IE. There may have been recent advances, but I'll have to admit I don't keep up to date in the world of pop-up ads. ;)

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/chromeless.htm

[mitcho]

oh no its not for those annoying popup type selling point purposes.

and i think your misinterpretting me - this isnt really a popup 'window', more like a flash movie overlayed ontop of the website content but still within the website > do you know what i mean

ive seen it used alot in professional sites, like Bigpond here in australia.

i work for a kids giftware company and they are running a competition and want it to 'stand out' on the website

[XDudedotcom]

Well, it's "called" a window but it's "really" a DHTML layer.

Here, this one's way better than the one I posted above: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex8/dhtmlwindow.htm