Flash buttons
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- change the flash button Title
- change the flash button Description
- change the flash button HYPERLINK
- change the flash button image
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Overview
The flash buttons provide an unique 'call to action' for your web page. Visitors are attracted to interactive buttons and elements, and the flash buttons give the additional 'focus' you may need.
The flash buttons are completely dynamic, you can modify the button title, the button description, hyperlink and even the button image. Some templates will use actual pictures, other will display an icon or transparent image. You can replace or remove these if that works better for your design plans.
The number of flash buttons included with the template will vary from template to template. With every template, we have included as many flash buttons as will comfortably fit into the page. If your template has 4 buttons, that would also be the maximum number of flash buttons that could be put into the page. It is possible to remove the flash buttons, simply deleting a bit of text from a page and the buttons will be reduced by one. I would not recommend you do this, unless it can be done and not leave a blank space where the missing button would be. If you do decide to remove a button, you won't have any choice in which button to remove. The buttons are created dynamically, meaning the first button takes the first spot, then everything listed after that build in a left to right, or top to bottom alignment. Remove any button information from the buttons.xml page, and the remaining buttons will just 'move over' or 'move up'.
flash buttons images
INSTRUCTIONS
change the flash button Title
- open the {Site / flash / config / buttons.xml} file
- select the 'text' between the tags (example displayed in
red)
<buttonTitle> xxxxx </buttonTitle>
- type in a new name
change the flash button Description
- open the {Site / flash / config / buttons.xml} file
- select the 'text' between the tags
<buttonDescription> xxxxx </buttonDescription>
- type in a new description
change the flash button HYPERLINK
- open the {Site / flash / config / buttons.xml} file
- select the following text ( displayed in red for this example ):
example default
<buttonURL>../../about.htm</buttonURL>
example updated
<buttonURL>../../our_team.htm</buttonURL>
- type in the new URL
- keep the " ../../ " in place
- remember to include the page "extension" such as .htm / .php / or .html
change the flash button image
**create a new image, and save it to the {Site / flash / images / buttons}
folder
**it's best to open an existing image in your favorite graphic editor, and
replace the default with a new image while working in your graphic editor, then
save to update the website. This way the original image size, and name are
retained. Or, you can create your own image, and save it to the {Site / flash /
images / buttons} folder.
- open the {Site / flash / config / buttons.xml} file
- select the name of the default image (displayed in red for this example)
<buttonImage>images/buttons/flash_button1.png</buttonImage>
- type in the file name or your replacement image ( make sure you saved your replacement image to the {Site / flash / images / buttons} folder.