After suffering with learning how to add a flash file to a Yahoo Sitebuilder site I feel absolutely compelled to share this easy explanation in light of the bummer it was learning it from computer gurus who got so complicated that this simplistic easy do to task of adding the flash took an entire day to figure out in the real. Ok I know those out there that will get a chuckle at how long it took but hey not everyone can be a computer guru and there is a learning curve for everyone even for you, so back off, this of for the noobs.
Ok, Here it goes, first download the .swf file of the flash image and save it to your desktop so it's easy to find.
Next open Yahoo site builder
Next open your desktop file manager: go to open documents and then click desktop and scroll until you find the .swf file you saved to it.
Once you find the .swf file right click it and keep holding it while you move it to your images file. Th drag and drop method named accordingly because you are going to click it, drag it and then drop it into the images file, let go when you get to the image file and it will drop it into the images file just like that. When you get the image to the images file location release the right click and it will be added to the images file in Yahoo sitebuilder. You can put it into a new file that you create but why bother?
Check the images file to make sure the file name that you added of the .swf is there and you did in fact add it. In otherwords, if the file name was 9899999.swf look for it in your image file in Yahoo sitebuilder. If you find it then you did add it and go to the next step. If you don't find it try the drag and drop again and look for it again in the images file.
Next publish your page.
After you publish you page open the site page where you want the flash file to appear and go to add code and select iframe.
When you select iframe a box will come up and it will ask you for the site address of the site where the flash is located.
Just put in your site name and then the images file and then the flash file name.
For instance, if your site is named www.hoolio.com and you dropped your .swf file into your images file with the following name "998899673" the following address would be added at the prompt:
www.hoolio.com/images/998899673.swf
The image will then pop up and by double clicking it you can change the size of the flash image by changing the coordinates that is given in the iframe prompt box for width and height.
That's it publish again and the flash will show up on your site!
Hope this helps you and you don't have to go through what I went through to figure this out! Hoorah! for the web designers who reject making web sites uninteresting and unentertaining and too corporate without fun graphics and flash.
For all those who need that corporate feel to stay feeling safe purchasing a product on the internet...remember Enron, Tobacco company nicotine additions, lead poisoning of our children by Chinese production factories contracted by Mattel, and the countless list of acts of corporate bamboozling that goes on. The real is in the people!
