Macromedia Flash Banner Specs
For advertisement to display and click through properly on our websites, the following instructions need to be followed exactly when constructing a .SWF banner in Flash.
*.SWF banners are accepted only for the 728x90, 468x60, 300x250, and 300x600 banner zones on SermonCentral.com, ChurchLeaders.com, and ChurchJobFinder.com. Flash ads can only have user-initiated audio. Video files must pause after 15 seconds but can be re-initiated by the user for an unlimited amount of time. Our most current version of Flash is 8.0.
- Open your Flash file (.FLA).
- Lock all layers.
- If you have not already done so, create a new layer at the top of the layer stack and name it "actions" (without quotes).
- Create a new layer at the bottom of the layer stack.
- Name it "btn" (without quotes).
- Select the first keyframe on the "btn" layer.
- Draw a rectangle the size of the stage with no stroke and a fill of the same color as the movie's background color.
- Double-click the new rectangle to select the entire rectangle.
- In the Align panel, with "Align/Distribute to stage" selected:
- Click Align horizontal center
- Click Vertical horizontal center
- The rectangle should be covering the entire stage.
- Convert your selection to a movieclip (F8) and type "btnMC" in the name field.
- Make sure that its Type is set to "Movie clip" and its Orientation Point is set to upper left.
- Select the instance on the stage.
- In the Properties panel, give it an instance name of "btn_mc" (without quotes).
- Lock the layer.
- Select the first keyframe in the "actions" layer
- Open the Actions panel and type the following:
btn_mc.onRelease = function() {
getURL(url, window="_blank");
};
- Please note that the URL is picked up from our ad server and shouldn't be in the FLA coding
- Note: Under File -> Publish Settings -> Flash, be sure to publish as ActionScript Version as "ActionScript 2.0." Unfortunately, ActionScript 3.0 will not function with our system.
- Save and publish your movie
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