need help with dreamweaver flash buttons

Hi

Sorry about newbie question.

I added some flash buttons on my web site which seemed to be working fine at the beginning. About 2 weeks ago they changed for some reasons. When you put the mouse over them now a box appears saying: click to activate and use this control. Now if you want to link you have to click once on the button to activate and then click another time to link. Pain in the neck. I tried the other flash button and they all seem to have that feature and I tried my site on different computer to see if it was from an update in IE or Macromedia that I downloaded to no avail.

Can somebody explain to me why this happened and what can I do to fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help

ET

Can I see the site? What version Dreamweaver?

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I am using dreamweaveer MX version 6.0

And the site is at www.etiennelavigne.com

thanks for the help

E.T.

Good bloody god.. is that you? You look mighty fine, sod the buttons LOL.

Seriously, your flash buttons work fine for me in FireFox but do exactly the same and you said in IE so I can only guess that it's your browser that's being naughty - no surprise there where IE is concerned.

Now, looking at your source code it might well be the <div align="center"> in your table heading. It was showing a rather strange dashed border for me - remove the <div align="center"> and just centre the text in the normal way: <h1 align="center"><font size="7">Etienne Lavigne</font></h1>

Another good test is to move the buttons outside of the table and upload that - just to see if it's the table configuration that's throwing the flash code out. Upload it as a different named file just for test purposes.

To be honest, flash buttons are labour intensive and unnecessary these days. Have a look at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/cs...y/category/C1/ and also at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/indexb.html - two excellent sources of menu ideas that don't require the creation of flash files - don't forget, a lot of people turn off flash content! These are fast, and don't need to be loaded by your viewers

Hope that helps...

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Ah ha! I knew it was bloomin IE.

http://www.amarasoftware.com/flash-problem.htm

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Thank you very much for the help...

I tested my site on a couple of comps but they were all in IE so i did'nt think it was my comp. Thanks for the links. I know Flash buttons are'nt the tool of choice for professionals but it was the easiest for me. Hopefully v. 2.0 of the site will be better.

I change the codes like you suggested and I tested it outside of the table without success. I also changed the settings on my browser and no help either. I will be looking at getting rid of them with the links you gave me when I have a second.

Thanks again!

Oh and yes, thats me... gotta earn a living and as you can see, Its not going to be web design.
E.T.

I just read your second link in Amara and it works now. I'll still try to change the flash buttons...

Thanks again!

E.T.

Cool I'm glad you're sorted! It's a fantastic site you have by the way. I bet your parents are really proud of you! Unfortunately, my Son is somewhat of a gaming monster who rots away in his smelly bedroom LOL.

My Daughter dances though! Ballroom and Latin. She's just got her own website although it's not as impressive as yours. www.lottiebridges.com if you fancy having a look but it's pretty empty as I only put it on the net today.

Anyway... byeeeee

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