hi all,

i'm trying to make my header a swf file. on which page(s) or file(s) do i add code to include a swf?

thanks,
evie

search the forums
see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthr...ght=header+swf

thanks for your reply. i have searched through the forums and am still very confused. i am not a novice at coding, but i'm also not a professional .... do i add code to the header.php page (which i have already, based on some code found in the forum -- and which didn't work); do i add code to the options pages; and then some forum pages say to add something to css?.... the page you directed me to just has header swf on the home page -- i want it on all pages.

if someone could just let me know the different steps involved in getting a swf to be the header i would be eternally grateful!

evie

You should'nt ahve to make any changes to the theme code, use a new widget area in the header. That is what post #3 in that thread is telling you to do.

So start off by getting the swf to run in a widget, then create a header widget and put your code there.

ok, thanks again. but now i'm confused about where i add the actual widget. can you help?

evie

wait, i added the widget area to the header. i'm still not seeing my image.... i'll keep playing with it.

remember, first ou add the widget area, then you add a widget into the widget area (in the widget's option of the dashboard)

well, i am still not seeing the image. the url is http://ezgsa.com/wordpress. i've done what that thread suggests:

Options->Style and Edit Header Area->Configure Header Area
HTML Code:

%pages
%bar1
<div id="header-container" class="header-image-container">
<?php bfa_widget_area('name=Header Widget Area'); ?>
</div>
%bar2

Add HTML/CSS Inserts->CSS Inserts
Code:

/* Adjust the height to accommodate your slideshow */
#header-container{
position:relative;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:890px;
height:200px;
background: url(/wordpress/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/topnavi.swf) center no-repeat;
}

did you add a widget?? It looks like all you have done is defined the area, now go to the widget options and you should see a new widget area 'Header Widget Area' drag teh text widget there and put your code in.

ok, gotcha. only problem is, the widgets page isn't letting me drag anything there. i'll search through the forum for this problem, but do you know anything about it?

thanks,
evie

disable any plugin's you have especially Events-calendar if you have it and try again

figured that part out. now just trying to make it all work.

juggledad, i really appreciate your patience with me. i am at the text widget now (got it to the new header), and trying to make that work. i've put in the following code:

<div id="header-container"><img scr="http://ezgsa.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/topnavi.swf" height="200px" width="880px"></div>

i'm not putting any title in. still not seeing the swf. can you tell me what i'm doing wrong?

evie

ok, changed the scr to src, but now i'm getting some wacko image, that's not what i need. check . it's supposed to look like the header here: http://ezgsa.com

sorry, check the image at http://ezgsa.com/wordpress

the events calendar pluging is causing a conflict

i removed the plug in and now there's no image at all. i don't think that was it.

evie

juggledad, after my 25th search through the forum today, i finally found someone who had a much easier way of dealing with this. http://www.mydeviceip.com/2009/10/ad...eme-ver-3-4-4/ offers a very simple methodology. it works great.

i do appreciate your assistance!

evie