Chapter 16. Adding Flash Content   Placing Flash Movies on the Page Creating Flash Buttons Creating Flash Text Creating a Flash Slideshow     Ubiquitous is the word for the Flash multimedia format. The Flash Player plug-in is installed on just about every computer on the Internet, so many a modern web site uses Flash for mission-critical features like navigation and advertising without giving it a second thought. The prevalence of Flash pretty much guarantees it a place of honor among Dreamweaver's site-build-ing tools. The fact that Macromedia produces both Flash and Dreamweaver doesn't hurt, either. This chapter shows you how to place Flash movies on the pages of your site in an aesthetically pleasing and reasonably accessible form. It also gives you a tour of Dreamweaver's special Flash features, which require no outside authoring tools.           16.1. Placing Flash Movies on the Page For purposes of placing, treat Flash movies just like images. Put them in their predefined areas of your layout, or drop them inline and adjust their alignment in relation to the surrounding content. The main difference is, instead of clicking the Image object on the Insert panel, you click the Flash object shown in Figure 16-1. When you do, the Select File dialog box appears. Navigate to the location of the Flash movie in your local root folder. Flash movies have the extension .swf, so you're looking for SWF files here. You might consider placing your movies in the images or img directory, just for convenience. Click OK, and the Object Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box in Figure 16-2 appears. In the Title field, type a short title for the movie. Figure 16-1. The Flash object is under the Flash menu on the Property Inspector toolbar   Figure 16-2. Accessibility options for Flash movies   TECHTALK An access key is a keyboard key that the user presses in conjunction with the Alt key to select an interactive element on the page.