Using These Shock-Baubles on YOUR Pages
And Some Very Reasonable Restrictions on Their Use

There are only three things you'll need to do to get the first Shockwave production to work on one of your pages. After you have done it once, you'll find that it's a snap to place them all over your web-site. Here's the short checklist with additional details below:

1. Place the Shockwave File on your Server just as you would with other GIF files, JPEGs, etc. Make sure that the name of the Shockwave file ends with the .dcr extension so your server will recognize its type.
2. If your HTTP Server has never served up Shockwave Files in the past, it must be configured ONE TIME by a systems administrator to do this properly (5 minute job).
3. Use the HTML <EMBED> tag with proper syntax and the exact size (in pixels) of your Shockwave Animation to place it on your page.

Details - Naming

• Most of the Shock-Bauble files that you will download from this page have been given the arbitrary .SB extension (i.e. "FILENAME.SB") so that your machine will prompt you to save them rather than try to play them. Before placing them on your server (or even trying to play them from your machine, they must be re-named from "FILENAME.SB" to "FILENAME.DCR".

Details - Server Setup

• The HTTP Server on which your HTML pages (and these Shocked Productions) reside must be configured to recognize the MIME type of Shockwave files and serve them up properly. This only needs to be done once. Please refer your System Administrator to the developer's section of the Macromedia site where he (or she) will find detailed instructions for "Configuring Your Server".

Shockwave HTML

• When you put a Shockwave creation on one of your web pages, you'll need to mimic a bit of HTML that uses the <EMBED> tag. Macromedia offers a full description of the required language in another document on their site. Macromedia's documentation also details alternative ways to embed Shockwave using LiveScript/JavaScript tags -- these handle (after a fashion) the display of alternative information/GIFS if browsers without the Shockwave Plug-In are used to view the page.
  We recommend the use of the simple <EMBED> without the special LiveScript/JavaScript implementation. If you simply mimic this exact language within the context of your page HTML, the Shockwave Production runs fine:
  
     <EMBED SRC=filename.dcr width=32 height=480
      vspace=0 hspace=0 align=left>
  
  To alter this for your web page, you will want to:
  1. Substitute the actual name (and full URL address if not in same directory) of your Shockwave file -- in place of filename.dcr.
  2. Substitute the exact width and height (in pixels) of your Shockwave movie after the appropriate descriptors -- note that these dimensions are listed above where you click to download them. This is very important! You might also want to check that all other GIFs and media on the page with the Shockwave have their proper dimensions listed in the HTML as well; Netscape can sometimes have problems figuring out Shockwave placement and spacing if it does not know the sizes for everything.
  3. Put in values other than 0 for "vspace" and "hspace" if you want some space padding around the Shockwave Movie. Use the "align=" setting as you normally would. You may also put settings such as "textfocus" within this <EMBED> tag.
  
  

Other Considerations

• You may place more than one Shock-Bauble on a page though you should be aware of a couple of caveats. These are:
  • Each .DCR file on a page should have a different name -- if you are going to use the same Shock-Bauble twice on a page, you must have two versions of the file on your server with different names. Each file will be loaded separately (this is a Macromedia/Netscape issue that both companies are working to resolve).
  • Each Shockwave Movie instance on a page requires approximately 70-100k of the free memory on the viewer's computer -- you can choke folks with less powerful machines if you try to put too many on a page.
• Certain machine/Shockwave/Netscape combinations currently have problems with Shockwave movies that are placed within Tables (within frames is fine). This should be avoided at the moment if possible.
• If you work in Macromedia Director and would be interested in offering some of your creative work through these pages, please see our Submission Instructions which are pretty simple. We would welcome your contribution to the spread of Shockwave.
• We strongly encourage you to encourage folks who visit your pages to get the Shockwave Plug-In. The best way we know to do this is to include one of the proper Macromedia logos on your page along with links to Macromedia's site from your pages. The bottom line is -- people can't see how cool your site is after you've put in some Shockwave stuff if they don't have the plug-in -- so tell them who makes it and where to go get it! You can obtain the GIF Macromedia logos (and read about their proper use) at the Made With Macromedia - Shockwave Site. We hope that you will do so.

Reasonable Restrictions on Using Shock-Baubles

Any files downloaded from this site:

• remain the property of the creators of these files;
• are copyrighted by the creators of these files;
• carry absolutely no warranty or guarantee of anything;
• may not be sold, bartered, altered, or offered for sale without the creator's express permission;
• may not be re-distributed or posted to any other download site without the creator's express permission;
• are solely intended for use by the Downloader in Web Pages created by the Downloader (or Downloader's business entity).