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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
in the lower-right corner of the Property inspector.