


In this tutorial, you're creating a "wide skyscraper." For a list of standardized banner sizes, check out the Interactive Advertising Bureau's page on Interactive Marketing Units at You can also create banners from a Macromedia template by selecting File > New from the main menu. You need to use these specific dimensions because you're creating a banner and you should use a standard banner size. Type 160 into the Width text box, and 600 into the Height text box.When you type new values into these text boxes, you resize the dimensions of your FLA file. When you click Size, you open a dialog box where you can change several document-wide properties (such as the Stage dimensions, color, and document frame rate). By default the Stage size in a new Flash document is 550 pixels wide by 400 pixels high.
Select File > Save to save the document before you proceed to the next section ( Importing graphics). You'll find information about frame rate in Part 2 of this tutorial, Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 2. You can also change the current document's background color and frame rate directly in the Property inspector, without going to the Document Properties dialog box. Click OK when you finish entering the new dimensions to return to the authoring environment.When you return to the authoring environment, notice how the dimensions of your document change.
