About the Embedded Flash...

Each page in this template has a small Flash movie. You will not be able to edit these movies. However, you may delete the movie and replace it with "top1.jpg" from your images folder if you wish to get rid of the Flash.

If you create subfolders and move pages into your subfolder, you will need to edit the HTML to change the reference of the Flash movie. Click on the area where the movie is and go into HTML view. Find the <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="topleft.swf"> line and change the VALUE to reflect the correct path to the movie. For example, if you new page is inside of a subfolder, then change the value to "../topleft.swf". You will also need to find the <EMBED ... SRC="topleft.swf"> line and change that accordingly.

About the Splash page and intro movie...

The Splash page uses Flash detection script. People who do not have the Flash player plugin (a very small percentage of web users) will see a static image instead. The static image is in the images folder called "splash.jpg." You may edit this image in an image editor with your text for people who don't have Flash.

The embedded Flash movie allows you to have two one-line taglines. The text area is limited so you will need to experiment. You will not be able to change the fonts, colors, or animation effects on your own.

The embedded Flash movie allows you to use upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers, and most punctuation marks. If you need special characters (accented letters, etc.), you will need to use the alternate Flash movie found in the "flash" folder. First, drag the "splash.swf" into the flash folder. (If FrontPage asks if you want to rename anything, click "No.") Then, drag the "splash-allchar.swf" out of the flash folder into your main folder. Change the file name to "splash.swf." This will allow you to use special characters.

For more help with special characters and embedded Flash, check out our tutorial at http://www.johngaltstools.com/learn/fp/a002.asp.

Editing the Splash page...

1. After creating your FrontPage web, open up your index.htm page (or default.htm). Immediately switch to HTML view.
   >> Note: You will not see anything in normal view. This is because the page uses Flash detection. Go directly into HTML to make your changes.
2. You will see a lot of code. Scroll down towards the last 1/3 of the code and look for a line that says:
   
   // in this section we set up the content to be placed dynamically on the page
   // customize movie tags and alternate html content below
    
3. Now, look a few lines beyond that and locate the line that starts like this:
   
   + '<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="splash.swf?nextPage=home.htm&text1=The Bright Tech Template...&text2=Embedded Flash and edgy design."> '
    
4. There are three "variables" that you may need to change. First, if you want your page to redirect to a different page other than "home.htm," change the code to the correct page:
   
   nextPage=home.htm
    
5. Next, change the taglines (text1 and text2) to whatever it is that you want them to say:
   
   &text1=The Bright Tech Template...&text2=Embedded Flash and edgy design.
    
6. Now, copy everything after the question mark to before the last quotation mark:
   
   ...="splash.swf?nextPage=home.htm&text1=Your text&text2=Your second text.">
    
7. Look below a few more lines to the <EMBED ...> line:
   
   + '<EMBED src="splash.swf?nextPage=home.htm&text1=The%20Br... >
    
8. Replace the corresponding text with what you just copied:
   
   + '<EMBED src="splash.swf?nextPage=home.htm&text1=Your text&text2=Your second text." ... >
    
9. Now, replace all spaces with '%20'. This will allow Netscape to display your text correctly.
   
   + '<EMBED src="splash.swf?nextPage=home.htm
   &text1=Your%20text&text2=Your%20second%20 text." ... >
    
10. Save. Go to File > Preview in Browser to test your movie.

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