Dreamweaver help!

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I'm in the process of trying to create a cool, small form factor website for my brother's band. Each page is a jpeg created in photoshop and i've applied hotspots over the top to create the links between pages.
I've included a gallery page which loads up a flash gallery viewer over the jpeg background (which is loaded as a picture and not as a background). Here's a screenshot of how it looks in internet explorer:
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The flash works fine but for some reason i'm unable to use the hotspot links anymore. I know it's to do with the flash because when i take the flash section away the links work again.

Any ideas? Please i've looked everywhere! A prize to he/she who provides the correct answer :dopey:
 
I'm going to move this to the Web Design Forum.

Can you post a link to the source code for the web page? One of us will then be able to pick through it and hopefully find your problem.
 
Thanks Giles.

Code: 
<html>
<head>

<title>funktank.com</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">

<!--
html, body {
	/* \*/
	height:100%;
	/* hide from Mac IE 5.x */ 
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	overflow-y: hidden;
} 
-->

</style>

<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="flash_detect.js">
	<!--
	function getFlashVersion() { return null; };
	//-->
</script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	var flashVersion = getFlashVersion();
	if (flashVersion < 6) {		
		location.replace("upgrade.html");
	}
	//-->

</script>

</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<table border="0" align="center" width="710" height="749">
  <tr> 
    <td height="749"> 
      <div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; top:230px; width:701px; height:370px; z-index:0; overflow: hidden"> 
        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
        <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="100%" height="100%" align="right" hspace="20">
          <param name="movie" value="viewer.swf" />
          <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
          <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#000000" />
          <embed src="viewer.swf" width="100%" height="100%" align="right" quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" hspace="20" />
          </embed> 
        </object></div>
      <img src="gallery.jpg" width="704" height="547" border="0" usemap="#MapMap"> 
      <map name="MapMap"> 
        <area shape="rect" coords="210,58,266,82" href="about.htm">
      </map>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body></body>

</html>
 
Not that kind of code soup. ;) I think your problem has to do with Flash, and there aren't too many people here who use Flash to actually create a website.

BTW, why on earth is there a DOCTYPE within the page? I've seen DOCTYPEs in some pretty weird places, but never between a division… that's so not kosher.
 
Well basically i created the jpg background, loaded it into Dreamweaver and added the hot spots for the links. When i included the code for the flash gallery though it stopped all the links from working. I've no idea about half the code there really.

Could it be down to the Flash area stealing the mouse pointer priority? So when the flash gallery has loaded it won't let the mouse work else where?
 
No i saw that body tag, but i'm pretty sure it's not the problem. It's gotta be something to do with the Flash taking the priority of the pointer away from the web page, but like i said i don't know enough about Flash or HTML to work out where this is.
 
I've narrowed it down to this line of code:

Code: 
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

With that line in i can't click any links, but without it i can. However without it, my browser pops up a warning:

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this site from showing active content that could access your computer"

I can click on the popup bar and it lets me view the page, but that isn't very user friendly if everyone has to do it. It may also prevent people from viewing the gallery if they're worried about internet nasties.

Anyone know anything on this specific issue? I've searched around, but nothing helpful is coming up so far. Thanks.
 
That isn't an error. Let XP view the active contents. It is just part of XP SP2. When I view my webpage in IE before I publish it, it does the same thing. I think it shows up when your webpage tries to use an Active X control.

Here you can see a description of the different bars that show up in XP SP2 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843017

I guess that line does have to do with that showing up, but it isn't harming your computer, and from my experience, which isn't much, won't show up when you upload the page - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;883866
 
Thanks :) I've got my Active x warning disabled for now.

But surely then every person who's going to view the site will have to have that warning disabled? I don't want anything to popup on the page or the site to annoy people.

[edit] Or does it just popup when i view the site on my pc i.e. locally? [/]
 
It only pops up when you view the site off of you hdd, locally. My website, which is in my signature, is an example. I get that when I view it off of my computer, but when I host it, I don't get anything.
 
I get that bar that you are getting, when I view my site locally -
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You can right click on it and then you wil get a menu, click, with your left mouse button, Allow Blocked Content -
allowactivex6nh.jpg


You will get an error, Click Yes -
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You should be able to view your site fine.
 

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