Flash header question

Hi, Ive been doing Photoshop work for some time and am now looking into doing some flash for my website. If you look at my header on my site http://www.monsterfishing.co.uk it is a Jpeg at the momment for the title. What I want to know is that if i replace the header with flash is there away that I can add code so that if someone has a low bandwidth connection it would not load the flash and use the Jpeg image instead. The reason being is I know how bad it is waiting for flash to load on some websites when bandwidth is limited and it would be good to give people the option upon loading. Any Ideas?

I am speaking out of my league, but if there is a way of detecting bandwidth of a user, it is not likely built into Flash or HTML to be able to detect that. You would probably need to use some server side scripting to test the connection speed.
Flash content can be very efficiently designed, to the point of even carrying less weight than a jpeg file... it all depends what you want to put into it. Too many people get carried away adding things into the file that could be better added dynamically or not used at all. Flash files tend to blow up when you add images and sounds and videos into them. Otherwise they are usually very light loads.

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>>>I am using a flash header for a site I am
building in dreamweaver. How
>>>do I keep from reloading the Flash menu on each
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>>
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> What is the best practice to place a Flash swf file in
html using
> Dreamweaver
> 8? Right now I took the code that Flash 8 generates.
When viewed in the
> browser
> the Flash header has a little bit of space around it and
I want it to be
> flush
> on the top and left side...So do I use divs, container,
wrapper with CSS
> to
> position the header where I want?
>
> my code:
> <body>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
>
b#version=8,0,0,0','width','770','height','130','id','header9','align','middle',
>
'src','header9','quality','high','bgcolor','#ffffff','name','header9','allowscri
> ptaccess','sameDomain','pluginspage','
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplaye
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> classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
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align="middle">
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/>
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> /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"
/><embed src="header9.swf"
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> align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
> </object></noscript>
>
> thanks!
>

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