I need to edit a flash template which I need to edit.Its a flash site and the problem is I have never used any of them flash editors (if they exist) How do you make a flash site? or edit one rather and what level of skills would one need to edit an already made flash site?Is it even worth a try for me?
is the entire site flash or does it just have some embedded flash elements? if you want to edit a flash file you're going to need the original .fla file and not just the .swf there are flash decompilers to change the .swfs back into .flas but I've never used one so I can't give you any advice on them I can tell you though that if you've never used flash it would probably be pretty useless to you hth, vanessa.
The entire site is in flash I bought a template without realising that it would be tough to do these simple modifications But the site looks so cool that I am ready to learn how to edit flash sites from scratch I am ready to spend a few months to learn this flash stuff. Where do I start? I have downloaded macromedia flash 8, dreamweaver and fireworks. Yes I do have .fla file but that file is 11mb and the other file is less then 1 mb If I do manage to edit the .fla file how the hell do i bring it to less then 1mb?
the .fla is the working file so it will be much larger in size as the .swf which is what you'll use on the site so don't worry too much about the .fla file in and of itself the best place to start would be help files in the program itself as I mentioned earlier it might be tough to figure out if you've never had any flash experience before did the template not come with a detailed text file explaining how to edit it? if not I'd say that's a pretty crummy deal without seeing the actual .fla myself I can't help you and give you any sort of time figure because I don't know how complicated the script is you'll just have to putter along yourself and hope for the best I guess the other option is to hire a flash designer to make the appropriate changes you might realize a week or two down the line that that is the best option if your time = money if you have all the time in the world then go at it! good luck. vanessa.
Thanks vanessa, After these 23 hours infront of the PC I have managed to do 90% of the modifications and kind of learned hot it works but I am stuck at this movie thing, Its a small popup which comes up in the middle of the page when you click on one of the links and its got text on it and I am not able to modify this bit with Flash 8 or may be I couldnt figure out how to... Any help will be much appreciated. I am off to bed now.. need atleast 48 hours of sleep to organise the info I have gathered I have pulled so much of my hair today just editing this flash site God know how you guys actually make them I think I should have hired someone coz I now realize that the work I have done in last 24 hours can actually be done in like half an hour if I knew what I am doing apart from the movie thing I am still stuck on.