Creating Transparent Flash Movies with WMode and Div Layers

See that group of swirling spheres wandering around the page? That's not an ad; it's a link to an actual lesson, but it utilizes the same techniques as the latest Flash ads that are starting to crop up on web pages everywhere: dynamically positioned SWF files with transparent backgrounds. "But Flash doesn't let you set the background as transparent," I hear you cry. (....or something like that.) Sure, you can't do it in Flash - but you can do it in the source code of the document that you embed your SWF into. Click here, or click the blue button in the SWF below (the blog posts do some interesting things to the absolute positioning, don't they?), to learn how to do it.

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Link: Jennifer Kyrnin's About Web Design