Flash no showing on website

[amyr61]

Hope this is the right spot for this. I have a classifieds ad site
www.sierrahorsesales.com/cgi-bin/view_ads.cgi
I am in the process of upgrading my pages using a html template with flash. The problem is the flash won't play. I'm pretty sure it's a path problem, but I'm in such a muddle....
I have all the files in two places as I need an index.html file to redirect to the "view_ads.cgi"
So, all the .js files, including header.js are in the "public-html" folder, and the "classifieds_templates" folder under that, which is where all the html ad files are (except index.html)
The template company said to put the flash.txt in the cgi bin, but that didn't work. I also tried putting the logo.swf, and header.js in the cgi-bin but no. I think the path in the header.js file is the answer, but I'm not sure where to put that file and what the path should be. Any suggestions is appreciated.

[NTD]

Hi,

Check the "embed" tag in the HTML page that is supposed to load your .swf into the page and make sure the path is an absolute path to your .swf file....

embed src = "http://www.somesite.com/someFolderName/myMovie.swf

Some template companies assume the files will reside in the same folder and use relative paths.....

embed src = "myMovie.swf"

This may not be the issue as it sounds like you are using lots of files and it might be more complex than that.

hope it helps
NTD

[amyr61]

Well... I finally hired someone to fix this problem - which he did in about 20 minutes from the time he got my initial Email, and very reasonably also. This guy is great! Here is what he did....

"Also - about your flash issue. I have no idea why the company who created this did it, but they were calling an external text file to load in the flash. The flash was playing on the page you needed ... it just wasn't showing the text. In addition, the flash was calling the text file from a relative url and not global so I have to go in and change the flash file to do that as well. Let me know if you need anything else!"

Tanner Jones
Tanner Creative
13411 Balcrest Drive
Houston, TX 77070
www.tannercreative.com