Problem with Flash Header

[fareed]

Hi!
I am a new Zenner. Please help me out to setup a flash banner at white space located under the header, in replacement of bg_banner image. You may check the webpage at http://www.rabiabooks.com/ for reference.

I look forward to your nice co-operation.

Regards,
Fareed

[misty]

Template looks like one from Template Monster..
If so, search forums for Template Monster..nothing
is standard in their designs so adding flash banner
will not be straightforward.

[welchyboy]

Still having issues with the "black" space on my flash banner can any one help me please.

[misty]

Still having issues with the "black" space on my flash banner can any one help me please.

Without url of site not possible to view existing code

[welchyboy]

Sorry...

http://www.wpc-consulting.com/~stxmill/

[misty]

Do not use same formula for embedding flash header
as used on that site, so without having actual swf file,
sorry, cannot help/advise further.

[Sawhorse]

Try editing your Stylesheet [stylesheet.css around line 436]
Change height from 140 to 114. That should help.

#logoWrapper 
background-color:#000000;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
height:114px;   
margin:0;
padding:0; 

[welchyboy]

This is a great suggestion. I have worked with this part before but didn't get too far. I tried it just now and changed it to 114 and the height looks good but now the width shrunk big time. So now there are huge black spaces on the left and right. I added the width:"100%"; to the logowrapper and changed the height to 100" and I see LOTS and LOTS of black space above and below the file but this is because the actual height of the flash file is rather big. I will change that to 140 or 150 and see how that looks with the height at 100%. Because the width of the banner looked great when the height is bigger for some reason. I think the solution is somewhere in here i think we are very close. Thanks for your help!!

MISTY are you wanting my swf file? Or what can i give you to help you out so you can help me out lol. Let me know and I will do what i can. Thanks for everyone's help yall are amazing!

[davewest]

This is a great suggestion. I have worked with this part before but didn't get too far. I tried it just now and changed it to 114 and the height looks good but now the width shrunk big time. So now there are huge black spaces on the left and right. I added the width:"100%"; to the logowrapper and changed the height to 100" and I see LOTS and LOTS of black space above and below the file but this is because the actual height of the flash file is rather big. I will change that to 140 or 150 and see how that looks with the height at 100%. Because the width of the banner looked great when the height is bigger for some reason. I think the solution is somewhere in here i think we are very close. Thanks for your help!!

Sawhorse nailed it for you some time back, Flash is not the same as a image. It doesn't distort like a image. When the space it occupies is not the same ratio as the flash stage, the ratio changes to fit the entire movie leaving the stage background color and any peace of animation that is off stage in view. You use black as your stage background, thus the black borders. My flash banner on my blog was designed for fast loading. It's was designed at a 1/3 of it's intended display size. It too would show it's background and off stage animation if I didn't adhere to it's size ratio.
I would down size your flash for faster load. You also seem to be loading swfobject twice as will two head sections, not sure if this is intended, but may give you trouble down the road. The more things you load that you don't need can slow down page load...

[welchyboy]

Sawhorse nailed it for you some time back, Flash is not the same as a image. It doesn't distort like a image. When the space it occupies is not the same ratio as the flash stage, the ratio changes to fit the entire movie leaving the stage background color and any peace of animation that is off stage in view. You use black as your stage background, thus the black borders. My flash banner on my blog was designed for fast loading. It's was designed at a 1/3 of it's intended display size. It too would show it's background and off stage animation if I didn't adhere to it's size ratio.
I would down size your flash for faster load. You also seem to be loading swfobject twice as will two head sections, not sure if this is intended, but may give you trouble down the road. The more things you load that you don't need can slow down page load...

Well what I did is change the stage color to the same color as the background and got it as close as i could. It is barely noticeable now. I am interested in making the flash file actually smaller so it will load faster it is a little less than 700k. Which is big for 56k. However I want it to look good and the reason it is soooo big is because my flash files width is 2600 so I have to make the image huge. Although I have a flash loader which at least will tell the customer that it is loading but if i can while making it look good load a little faster. Thanks for all your help and I think I am finally getting the flash file at least decent I am almost happy with it lol. Any suggestions on how to make it better or quicker? I have only tested the file with about 1280 by 768 and lower resolution.