Flash Menu Builder Video Tutorials
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Flash™ Menu Builder Overview
This video tutorial provides an overview of the features of CoffeeCup Flash™ Menu Builder. This program allows you to create and customize Flash™ menus for your Website.
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Creating a Flash™ Menu
This video outlines the basic process of creating a Flash™ menu using CoffeeCup Menu Builder. It describes how to name, add, and delete buttons, create links to pages within a site, and choose which frame the page will open in (_parent, _blank, or _self). It also shows you how to create submenus, change the position of buttons within the menu, apply effects such as fade in or out and grow or shrink, adjust menu alignment (vertical or horizontal), show or hide scroll buttons, and show the submenu on mouseover or mouse click. Finally, it explains how to fix the menu to display active content in Internet Explorer.
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Customizing a Flash™ Menu
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to customize your Flash™ menu in CoffeeCup Menu Builder. The video covers the process for changing the different aspects of your root button and submenu text, including color, font face, size, style (bold, italic, or underline), and alignment (left, center, or right). You'll also learn how to specify the root button and submenu images, the background color or image, the menu border, and the optional mouse click sound.
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Uploading a Flash™ Menu
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to upload a Flash™ menu you've created in CoffeeCup Menu Builder. Saving your menu brings up a dialog box listing the files you need to upload as well as the HTML you must include on every page where the menu will appear. The video will walk you through the process of uploading the menu files using the built-in FTP client, including setting up a server profile.
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Creating a Flash™ Menu for Visual Site Designer
This tutorial shows you how to create a Flash™ menu for use in Visual Site Designer using CoffeeCup Menu Builder. It will walk you through the steps involved in linking together pages created in Visual Site Designer in a Flash™ menu.
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Adding a Flash™ Menu to Visual Site Designer
This video tutorial walks you through the process of adding a Flash™ menu created using CoffeeCup Menu Builder to a Webpage created using Visual Site Designer. The menu should be saved to the _website folder where the pages created in Visual Site Designer are saved. Using the Add Flash™ Tool, draw a box where you want the menu to appear, then select the XML file for the menu, which will be located in the _website folder. The tutorial then shows you how to preview the menu using the Preview button.
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Adding a Flash™ Menu to HTML Editor
This video tutorial walks you through the process of adding a Flash™ menu created using CoffeeCup Menu Builder to a Webpage created using HTML Editor. Saving your menu brings up a dialog box listing the files you need to upload as well as the HTML you must include on every page where the menu will appear. You should save these files to your Working folder. The video shows you how and where to paste this HTML in your HTML page, as well as how to move the menu around your page using the Visual Editor tab. Finally, it shows you how to preview your menu using the Preview tab or the option to preview your menu in a browser.
(Version 3.4 used in this video tutorial)
