Adding Audio, Video, and Interactive Elements

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 lets you add sound and movies to your website quickly and easily. You can attach Design Notes to these objects, which let you communicate with your team. You can also insert Macromedia Flash 8 button and text objects from within Dreamweaver itself.

This chapter contains the following sections:

About media files

Inserting and editing media objects

Starting an external editor for media files

Using Design Notes with media objects

Inserting and modifying a Flash button object

Inserting a Flash text object

Inserting Flash content

Downloading and installing Flash elements

Inserting Flash elements

Editing Flash element attributes

Inserting FlashPaper documents

Inserting Flash Video content

Inserting Shockwave movies

Adding video (non-Flash)

Adding sound to a page

Inserting Netscape Navigator plug-in content

Inserting an ActiveX control

Inserting a Java applet

Using behaviors to control media