This tutorial is a broad overview of the ideas behind modifying the buttons and links in templates that contain embedded Flash animations, such as these 250+ Flash-animated templates from Template Monster.

1. Open the .fla file with Macromedia Flash 6/MX.




2. Find the button (move the playhead frame by frame until the button is visible).




3. Select the button.




4. Open the Actions panel.




5. Click Actions and then Browser Network.




6. Double click on getURL.




7. Type your URL in the URL line, between the quotation marks. This may be a full URL such as http://www.templates.net/tutorial-animation.shtml or it can just be given in the form tutorial-animation.shtml.




8. Press File » Publish (Shift+F12).





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