Those Flash Pop Up Banners

[Mark Crisell]

I've noticed on www.yahoo.co.uk and a few other sites some rather impressive banner type pop up adverts. Yes, apart from the annoying aspect, I can think of other uses.

I don't mean annoying pop up windows, I mean those MM Flash animations that are in the main body window but hover in a static position above the background.

Does anyone have any idea how they are produced, or know of any documentation relating to them?

Regards,
Mark.

[andyk]

Fairly simple really... just create a simple flash animation with a transparent background and any relevent actionscript you might want (ie to hide the advert), put it in a layer then you can move the layer around the page using DHTML...

personally, i hate the damn things... they're really annoying, but if thats what it takes to keep my fave sites running, then i'm happy to tolerate them.

Andyk

[Mark Crisell]

Layers... DHTML... Dang... I knew I'd have to start looking at DHTML sooner or later...

Thanks for the reply.

Mark.

[andyk]

If you have dreamweaver, you can animate layers using their drag and drop interface... dead easy!

Andyk