Flash to Dreamweaver - Skin Not Showing

When you have used Adobe Flash to import your FLV and then also used it to export a SWF along with a SWF skin file you must make sure these two files stay together when they are published to the web.

Wherever the SWF file is moved to for your web page you must move the support SWF skin file along with it or the skin will not show up.

There is no parameter that needs to be set in Dreamweaver for finding the skin when you use this workflow because the SWF created from the FLA associates a relative path to the skin file by default, though this parameter can be easily changed with the Component Parameters window in the Flash program.

If you do not use the Adobe Flash program to create the skin and SWF file these problems are not the same for you.

There are three different workflows that are explained in this tutorial so when you cross them up you may get a little confused. The idea of the tutorial is to give you an over view and simplify the process a little.