Insert and play a Flash file

Next, you'll insert a Flash file that plays a photographic slide show of Cafe 

Townsend's featured food items. The Flash file you'll insert is a flexible 

messaging area or FMA file. An FMA is a common type of Flash 

application that displays an informational message to the audience. The 

message can change based on the needs of the business. For example, if 

Cafe Townsend is holding a special event, the FMA could easily change 

(without affecting the rest of the web page) to display information about 

the event, instead of featured food items.

To insert the Flash FMA file, you need to insert HTML code that embeds 

the file in the Dreamweaver page. The easiest way to do this is to insert the 

SWF file (the exported Flash Movie file) into the page. When you insert a 

SWF file in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver writes all of the necessary Flash 

HTML code for you.

1.

With the index.html page open in the Dreamweaver Document 

window, click once inside the second row of the first table. 

This is the table row immediately below the banner graphic you 

inserted in the previous section.

2.

In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Center from the 

Horz pop up menu, and select Middle from the Vert pop up menu. 

This places the contents of the table cell in the middle of the cell.

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If you cannot see the Vert or Horz pop up menus, click the expander arrow 

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in the lower right corner of the Property inspector.

Insert and play a Flash file

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