Flash files using php

I'm working on a site using php. When I place flash files in
the page, I can view it with no problems. It's another story when I
load everything up on a server. All I see is a white box where the
flash movie is. I'm using Dreamweaver CS3 on a MacBook Pro. Any
advice I can get would be much appreciated.

You have a number of problems on that page.
1. The Flash in the banner appears but the Flash in the body
does not. I'm
not sure why, but will examine further.
2. The menu will fall behind the Flash element in the body
when it expands.
This will render your site non-navigable.
3. Because you have used all-javascript menus, your site will
not be
spiderable by search engines, since they cannot find the
links in the
submenus when it is embedded in the javascript.
4. Also, because of those menus, you render your page
non-accessable, since
screen assistive devices do not render javascript. In
addition, anyone
coming to your site with javascript disabled will not be able
to navigate
it.
You can maybe deal with #1 by reading this -
All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and
Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There
is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
As for the rest, you should always have redundant, plain text
navigation
available on your site (or a plain text link to a sitemap
page). But there
are ways to do those menus where none of this is a problem -
I'd rather see
you use those methods than this one (which is also a ton of
code).
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"jeremygouine" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Here is the link:
>
>
http://glowingtreeproductions.com/BCS/media.php
>
> This is not the particular page it is going on, but it
should suffice for
> the
> moment. I have a friend who got it working, but he said
he didn't do
> anything
> I wasn't already doing. So, I have no clue. The biggest
problem for me
> is I
> can't get any Flash files to work when they are uploaded
on my server. I
> appreciate all the help I can get.
>

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