Help with embedding Flash banner ad in HTML

I have a banner ad in the following formats: .fla, .swf, .html.

I want to give my ad to a webmaster to put on their website but when I send them these files they tell me they don't work and they only want the code.

Please tell me EXACTLY what code I need to send to them. Pretend you are explaining this to a 5 year old, because I don't know the first thing about these formats and I am totally lost.

 

Did you ask them?

 

They have no idea either, they just tell me they can't open the files. Do you know how to do it?

 

insert the flash using dreamviewer.

 

can anyone tell me what code i should be using??

 

Here you go , just watch a code carefully.

<object
  classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
  codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
  width="550" height="400">
  ...
  <param name="movie" value="movie.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  ...
  <embed src="movie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400"
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
  </embed>
</object>

Code (markup):

 

thanks,
I knew it had to do with the code between the object tags, but I still don't get what I am supposed to do. Can you explain in English what I need to do?

Like where it says embed src="movie.swf", I need to change this to my file name but does the file need to be loaded somewhere on the server??

 

your swf file must be in a FTP server publicHTML/movie.swf , you must write down the path there (<param name="movie" value="movie.swf" />) where your file is.Try to explain me in more steps what do you want to know.

 

I got it figured out.. I had to load the .swf file onto my server, that's where i was gettinf tripped up, then changed "movie" to direct to that file in the server.

Thanks!

 

another question. I got the ad to appear on a test page:

mvpexchange.com/aboutus.html

But when you click on it, it leads to a page that just says undefined, how do you determine which page the banner leads to??

 

Just, put a link on that banner to another path. a href="