Jerz: New Media Projects (EL405)


12 Oct 2006

Flash Lessons 3 & 4

My Flash file was too big for blogs.setonhill.edu to upload, so I had to use SHU's personal web space istructions for how to do that follow.

1. Fill out the simple online form to get SHU web space.

2. Use Internet Explorer to go to "ftp://people.setonhill.edu/". Note the beginning of the URL is "ftp" not the usual "html". You will have to log in with the information you just provided. (Do not add your login ID to the URL at this stage.)

3. Drag and drop the files you want to upload. Drag the icons from wherever you have been working on them, onto the blank screen that displays in Internet Explorer after you log on to your "ftp" web address. You should see the mouse icon change to a plus sign, indicating the computer knows it's supposed to add a copy of this file to the server. (If you change your local copy, you'll have to follow this procedure again in order to update the copy that's on the server.)

4.

In the window that opens when you log in successfully to ftp://people.setonhill.edu/, you will see a file named "index.htm". It's just a simple text file that announces your site is ready. Delete that file.
After you have uploaded all the files (including images and the stylesheet) that you created for this assignment, go to "http://people.setonhill.edu/[your id]/[name of your Flash html file]" in order to make sure that they're there. When you publish your Flash site, you will end up with an HTML file and a SWF file. Upload them both into the same folder. Check the URL to make sure your flash works.

5. Create a blog entry that points to the URL that will play your flash folder. I used an HTML IFRAME tag to include the html file in an entry on my blog. You should be able to do the same, if you wish. You can also take a screenshot of your Flash movie, scale it down to a thumbnail, and use it as the link on your blog.

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