Add a Macromedia Flash^® animated introduction to your site. More than 20 customizable intro's to choose from. Add your own text, photos and buttons to make your Flash as unique as your site.

To add this feature to your site, log into Admin Menu and click on Add Options. Select Add to the Flash Intro option.

1. What Is Flash?
2. How To Activate Flash
3. How To Remove Flash
4. Changing Flash Display Size
5. How To Upload Your Own Flash File
6. Custom Flash Tips
7. Download the latest Flash Player

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1. What Is Flash?
Flash is a multimedia presentation that allows for animated images, text and sound to be added to a website. Flash is the standard for multimedia presentations for the Internet, and Flash plug-ins are now standard for most browsers being used on the internet. Flash plug-ins allow visitors to view the flash without having to install additional programs on their computer.

Sample Flash Previews:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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2. How To Activate Flash
To add this feature to your site, log into the Admin Menu and click on Add Options. Select Add to the Flash Intro option. After the option has been added, follow the steps below:

• Click on the house at the bottom of your homepage and log into the Admin Menu
• Choose "Flash Intro" at the bottom of the Admin Menu.
• Choose a Flash Intro from the selection menu.- (Click Preview to view a sample)
• Click Continue.
• Follow the on screen instructions to add your custom text, select buttons and select the music for your flash.
• Click Save Changes to activate the Flash Intro.
• Click Continue to finish your selection or Preview Intro to preview your new Flash.
• To view your site with the Flash Intro, click Back To Website from the Admin Menu.

You can modify your Flash Intro as often as you like by following the steps above.

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3. How To Remove Flash

• Click on the house at the bottom of your homepage and log into the Admin Menu
• Choose "Flash Intro" at the bottom of the Admin Menu.
• Select "Remove Intro" from the Flash Intro Page menu.
• This will remove the Flash Intro from the site.
• This will not cancel the Flash Intro option. See below.

Important Note: Removing the Flash Intro from your site as noted above will not cancel the option. To cancel your Flash Intro Option, click on the Billing link from the Admin Menu. Select Cancel for Flash Intro. Save Changes. This will cancel the Flash Option and subsequent billing.

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4. Changing Flash Display Size
By default, all Flash Intro's are set to "stretch" to fit the browser window size. In some cases, this may cause images to look "fuzzy" or low quality. This is caused by the stretching of the images beyond their intended viewing size. To resolve this issue, you can set the Flash to display at a fixed size of 600 x 400 pixels by changing the Preferences as follows.

• Click on the house at the bottom of your homepage and log into the Admin Menu.
• Click on the "Website & Listing Preferences" link.
• Select Website Options.
• Select "Fixed" for the "Automatically stretch Flash Intro to full screen?" to set the display at 600 x 400 pixels.
• Click Save Changes.
• To change from a fixed display to the default full screen (stretched) display select "Full Screen".

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5. How To Upload Your Own Flash File
You can upload your own Flash (.swf shockwave) file to your site to be used as your own custom Flash Intro.

• Click on the house at the bottom of your homepage and log into the Admin Menu
• Choose "Flash Intro" at the bottom of the Admin Menu.
• Click the Browse button for "upload a shockwave flash (swf) file from your PC".
• Select the SWF Flash file from your computer.
• After selecting the file, select Continue. Click "Continue to Menu" to finish your selection.
• To view your Flash Intro, select Go To Website from the Admin Menu.

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6. Custom Flash Tips
The following guidelines will be helpful for developing your own custom Flash Intro's.

• All Flash must be in SWF (shockwave) file format.
• Flash versions 4-6mx is supported. Flash MX2004 format is not supported at this time.
  You can change the published .swf version to flash 6mx in the Publish Settings section of Flash.
• Recommended Flash size is 600 x 400 to 1200 x 800 pixels.
• Flash file size should be less than 250K - This is not an absolute rule, but file sizes larger than 250K will take a much longer time to load for dial-up users.
• The Flash SWF file should be fully self contained, able to play as a stand alone file. Loading external images or flash movies will not work as these external files cannot be uploaded to your flash file.

Because the background color of the flash is often contained in the html of the flash page, and not the flash file itself, the background color of your flash intro may not be correct. Please contact us at support@ihouseweb.com with the correct hexadecimal color code for the background. We will be happy to update the background color for you.

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6. Download the latest Flash Player
You can download the latest version of the Flash Player for your browser/computer at the following link.

• Macromedia Shockwave Player (Flash player) Download