Dreamweaver - How do I use my own button?

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How do I use my own button?

Tombini

2004-08-26, 12:22 pm

I made a button using Flash and I would like to know how to get it into my page
I'm building with Dreamweaver. I'm a total novice at all this stuff. Can
anyone help?

Sidenote: The button is 109kb and I was hoping for around 3kb or something.
It's just two drawings and a text. Now I'm sure it's because I'm using actual
bitmaps imported from Photoshop. Is there any way to somehow convert those
bitmaps into vector drawings, or make them smaller somehow? Is there a trick
to importing images?

hard_2_handle

2004-08-26, 12:22 pm

To reduce the size of images, save them as .gif or .jpg (if they're photos)
this will compress the file sizes.

Putting buttons onto your site is the same as inserting an image, just do the
same in DW as you would to insert the image.

The filesize for your image will drop if you save it as a gif. Alternatively,
do a google for 'Image optimization' there's a lot out there on image
sizes/formats.

HTH