Sound in Flash buttons

Hey everyone, I was developing a website in Dreamweaver and
used the 'Insert/Media/Flash Button' option to create my flash
buttons for navigation. After deciding which design would fit my
web site best, I realized when you click the button there is a
sound with it. I really prefer not to have this sound play
everytime a user clicks on the button. I was just curious if anyone
knew how I could eliminate this sound from playing? - I tried
exporting the button into Flash, then realized I really have no
clue how to use flash
Thank you in advance for your time
- Sean

Basically you can't change the Flash button that come with
DW. If you want
something different you have to create your own.
This is not that difficult to do. I wrote a tutorial on how
to do this at
http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/sessionlcidsample.asp
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
"elduquex26x" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hey everyone, I was developing a website in Dreamweaver
and used the
> 'Insert/Media/Flash Button' option to create my flash
buttons for
> navigation.
> After deciding which design would fit my web site best,
I realized when
> you
> click the button there is a sound with it. I really
prefer not to have
> this
> sound play everytime a user clicks on the button. I was
just curious if
> anyone
> knew how I could eliminate this sound from playing? - I
tried exporting
> the
> button into Flash, then realized I really have no clue
how to use flash
>
Thank you in advance for your time
> - Sean
>

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