Browser sizing problems

bossman · 05-04-2001, 01:54 PM

I build the webpage for a local teen club that turns into a haunted house when halloween rolls around. We recently closed the club to start building for the haunted house. For part of our advertising, we agreed to make a new website for the haunted house season. I wanted to throw in a little flash to give it some pizzazz. I was never a big fan of Flash sites mostly due to the infamous "Loading..." screen I always get on a 56k modem. I don't mind the sites with small flash incorporated, but I can't stand the websites made of Flash. So, I never really was interested in learning how to use Flash.

The other day I saw a website with some Flash in it that I thought might be useful for me. They had a little Flash effect above a paragraph (the letters of a word rotated 360 degrees in turn). I wanted to do the same thing, only with a different effect. I wanted to have a blurry word in the background that bouced back and forth behind a stationary word of the same size. So, I opened up Flash and made it and finally figured out how to get it in a webpage. But there was a problem. When it was embedded into the webpage, the actual Flash was the size of the work area in my Flash 5. I have no idea how to get the actual Flash "movie" to be just the size of my little effect.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My website is http://www.edgeofmadness.com
The website I saw the effect on was http://www.screenhoppers.com/webdesign.html

[Edited by bossman on 05-04-2001 at 08:09 AM]

bossman · 05-04-2001, 02:04 PM

Also, I tried exporting it as a gif file. I would be just as happy with an animated gif as I would with a Flash effect. But when I exported it, I had the same problem. The gif file was as large (physically, not file size) as the work area in Flash 5. If it would be easier to export it as a gif, Any info on helping me there would be appreciated.

http://www.edgeofmadness.com

jordan · 05-08-2001, 02:41 AM

Simply choose "Modify" --> "Movie", set "Dimensions" to the size you want your small flash movie to be, then publish. You can make your movie any width or height you want.

bossman · 05-08-2001, 06:19 AM

I tried that. I shrunk my pictures down so that they were proportionally the same size as the work area in Flash.

05-08-2001, 02:41 AM	#3
jordan Moderator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Reno, NV (from San Diego) Posts: 7	Browser Sizing Problem Simply choose "Modify" --> "Movie", set "Dimensions" to the size you want your small flash movie to be, then publish. You can make your movie any width or height you want.

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05-04-2001, 01:54 PM	#1
bossman Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 3	I build the webpage for a local teen club that turns into a haunted house when halloween rolls around. We recently closed the club to start building for the haunted house. For part of our advertising, we agreed to make a new website for the haunted house season. I wanted to throw in a little flash to give it some pizzazz. I was never a big fan of Flash sites mostly due to the infamous "Loading..." screen I always get on a 56k modem. I don't mind the sites with small flash incorporated, but I can't stand the websites made of Flash. So, I never really was interested in learning how to use Flash. The other day I saw a website with some Flash in it that I thought might be useful for me. They had a little Flash effect above a paragraph (the letters of a word rotated 360 degrees in turn). I wanted to do the same thing, only with a different effect. I wanted to have a blurry word in the background that bouced back and forth behind a stationary word of the same size. So, I opened up Flash and made it and finally figured out how to get it in a webpage. But there was a problem. When it was embedded into the webpage, the actual Flash was the size of the work area in my Flash 5. I have no idea how to get the actual Flash "movie" to be just the size of my little effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My website is http://www.edgeofmadness.com The website I saw the effect on was http://www.screenhoppers.com/webdesign.html [Edited by bossman on 05-04-2001 at 08:09 AM]

05-04-2001, 02:04 PM	#2
bossman Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 3	Also, I tried exporting it as a gif file. I would be just as happy with an animated gif as I would with a Flash effect. But when I exported it, I had the same problem. The gif file was as large (physically, not file size) as the work area in Flash 5. If it would be easier to export it as a gif, Any info on helping me there would be appreciated. http://www.edgeofmadness.com


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05-08-2001, 06:19 AM	#4
bossman Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 3	I tried that. I shrunk my pictures down so that they were proportionally the same size as the work area in Flash.