How To Create A Flash (swf) Intro
NOTE: Our sites come pre-loaded with a flash opener that uses either the text you specify for your title or the logo you upload. These instructions are for adding something completely different to the opener.
All of our sites support the addition of a custom flash intro that loads before your site. This can be a brief animation, or whatever you want to construct. Simply build your intro in Adobe Flash or other program that can output a .swf file in Actionscript 2.0.
Then go to the intro tab and upload your SWF file.
If you or a flash programmer are building an intro for your site there are a couple important things to include in order for it to work properly.
1. The stage of the first frame of your flash intro can’t be blank because there is no way to center the intro in your main site. Make a shape the same color as the background of your site and make it the same height and width of your flash intro. Or you can make a movie clip and give it an alpha of 0%.
2. The first frame of your intro must have a stop(); action. This will prevent your intro from playing before it is fully loaded. It will start playing automatically by your main site once the intro is fully loaded.
3. You must include the following action script at the end to kick out the intro and launch the homepage:
stop();
introComplete();
4. Our frame rate is 48 fps
5. Our sites are built using AS2 (AS3 will not work for the intro).
6. You can play your flash intro at 1 to 1 scale (default), or you can set the SWF intro scale type to “fullscreen” mode in Template Settings under Image Properties:
You can also just download this file, delete the dummy video, insert your own content and you will be ready to go (intro.fla.zip).