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Hi,

I'm having trouble viewing the flash im putting in my header
I folowed an old topic to get help but not able to fix it fully.
First i create my flash 600 by 108 and the html for that, both called logo.swf logo.htm
upload those to themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.swf

Open the header1.html where the code for the origional header logo.gif is stored.
Find this at the bottom:
<tr>
<td>
<a href="index.html"><img src="themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.gif" width="257" height="108" border="0"></a>
</td>
<td>

Replace:
<img src="themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.gif" width="257" height="108" border="0">

With:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#4,0,0,0" width="600" height="108">
<param name="SRC" value="TheFullUrl/phpn/themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.swf\">
<embed src="TheFullUrl/phpn/themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.swf\" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="108">
</embed>
</object>

So i now have:

<tr>
<td>
<a href="index.html"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#4,0,0,0" width="600" height="108">
<param name="SRC" value="http://www.ottomaniarecordings.com/phpn/themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.swf\">
<embed src="http://www.ottomaniarecordings.com/phpn/themes/Cobalt/forums/images/logo.swf\" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="108">
</embed>
</object> </a>
</td>
<td>

Did i leave the code around it correct?

I then edited my logo.htm file for the flash, with no \ on the end of both links to the .swf
I can see a white box where the flash should be showing at the top of the page/header.

Thats the best i can explain sorry, any ideas?

later

I fixed it

I removed the \ off the link in the header1.html
I remember now, the \ woudl be used in the theme.php if thats where i was editing the ogigional logo.gif? but my theme has a html instead ey?

One small thing please, since i've enlarged the logo in my headed,
the site is expanding (all blocks on the right are pushed further right.)

Where can i edit the width of the site?

Thanks later

Actually, you can remove the link, since it won't work on the Flash movie. Also, you don't have to put in the full path to the movie. If you uploaded it to themes/Cobalt/images/ folder, you can just put that part of the URL. Something like this:

Hi kelly,

Yea i just got in the habbit of putting the full path in my links.
I've used flash in blocks before, yea if i made it wider than the block the block would stretch. But as the flash i put in the header stretched the site,
Can i fix the site so it's not stretching? you know what i mean?
I'ver seen tons of sites with flash i ntheir headers.

The origional gif in the headed was/is 257 by 108
My flash is 600 by 108
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Look in the folder for that theme and grab header.php (or whatever the header file is named) and attach it here. I'll take a look at the table code.

Hey thanks,

I added a another flash in the top center message block and it seemes to have fixed the size, watcha think?

Here's the header file
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When someone views the homepage it looks right,
my screen resolution is 600 by 800
Im wondering do others see ti different in higher resolutions,
hope not.
when i click on any other module other than home,
The site stretches again,
I dunno can i fix the theme to stay like the home page width?