Hi Janine,

I went through your Total Training video series to get a basic understanding of Dreamweaver. A friend was taking DW classes at a local college (very expensive) at the same time I was working through your tutorials and I feel I know the program better than he does. Thanks for your excellent instruction.

I have since created a site using the vertical Spry menu in CS3. I had a couple of issues with the way content displayed in IE7 and was able to figure out workarounds on all of my pages except where I had SWF movies. For some reason the movies play very low on the page. It is almost as if there is a placeholder above the movie that is the same dimension as the movie, pushing it to the bottom of the page. I have researched on the Web for a solution and have come to realize there are many issues with Spry and IE, but I have not been able to find an example or fix for my particular problem. I would greatly appreciate any light you could shed on this.

Thanks for taking time to answer questions. This is my first site and I am sure I could have done many things better, but I have learned, and continue to learn, a great deal from you and your resources.

Thanks,
Todd

Hi Todd,

Thank you for your kind words about my videos. I checked out your site and I see you’ve run into a common problem because the Spry menu you created is conflicting with the video files on some of your pages.

I wish there were an easy solution. Since I created my Dreamweaver video, I’ve spoken with several other web designers about the problem of Spry menu conflicts when they overlap any kind of Flash files (and other video formats as well). Unfortunately, the solution most people are using these days is to try to avoid the problem by making design choices that don’t require these types of features to bump into each other.

For example, on the pages where you have video just to the right of your vertical Spry menu, you could add some text or a still image (GIF, JPEG, PNG) above the video so the menu is overlapping text or an image and the video is pushed down the page below the menu. That way it should play without conflict. It’s always nice to give a little explanation about a video anyway, because not everyone can play videos on the web and some people like to read about a video before they play it.

Hope that helps you find a solution for your site about your work in Panama.

Thanks,
Janine

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