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Creating my flash website
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Roxie_
2009-03-19 23:24:22 UTC
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Ok so here is the deal. Im redoing a website in flash but im not sure what is
the best way to go when it comes to putting it online. Should i use only the
.swf files? the html files? or transform my pages into movieclips?
I have the Macromedia Flash Mx 2004 book and the Flash CS3 Professional
advance book (even though im far from being professional, and i havent really
had the time to go threw it). In Mx 2004, the way the book creates their
website, is basically creating all your .fla files and then publishing them to
.swf and movieclips. Then they create a main .fla file and call upon the
movieclip pages using the scenes panel. Now if i decide to use that method, how
would i add my metadata for every page?!
I guess i just dont understand HOW to put it online. If i used the method with
the scenes, would i just publish the main file and then upload that and the
.swf files to my server?!

Im not saying that i want to go that way but i have to figure which way to go
before i can continue my website since i have to link my buttons....

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how i should proceed for putting my
website online or do any of you have tutorials you could direct me to?

Anything would help thanks!
Roxie_
2009-03-19 23:27:38 UTC
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oh and i forgot to mention that my website as sound so im sure that changes
thing since i only want my sound to be on when people first visit my website
and then they can click OFF. Which means that if they change pages, i dont want
the sound to restart....
Gipoh
2009-03-20 13:37:08 UTC
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Hi there,
Maybe this will help:

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/basicwebsite/

Greetings Guido
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Roxie_
2009-03-22 14:57:38 UTC
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Thats like creating the website using the target scene which is how MX2004 book does it. What i need to know if how to put everything online, on a server!
swdweb
2009-03-23 15:10:46 UTC
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I'm also new to flash, but, I think that the way you get it online is to embed
the object tag into your html document. For example, if you start with a blank
page, all you really need to add is this:::

<html>
<body>
<OBJECT
CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
WIDTH="100%"
HEIGHT="100%"

CODEBASE="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">

<PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="yourmovienamehere.swf">
<PARAM NAME="PLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="LOOP" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="QUALITY" VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="SCALE" VALUE="showall">

<EMBED
SRC="yourmovienamehere.swf"
WIDTH="100%"
HEIGHT="100%"
PLAY="true"
LOOP="false"
QUALITY="high"
SCALE="showall"

PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Ver
sion=Shockwaveflash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

</body>
</html>

I hope this helps, I couldn't find that answer anywhere either, seems like
people avoid answering that question. I had to figure it out myself. :)
doghouseJim
2009-03-23 16:43:37 UTC
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You can follow swdweb's advice or you can let flash publish the html for you
just make sure html is selected in publish settings. Be sure to upload the swf
and any image or text files your movie needs in a folder on the server don't
forget to rename the html file to index
Roxie_
2009-03-26 00:57:49 UTC
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OK! Thanks so much guys. I figure both ways would work but for your advice
doghouseJim, how would you add the Metadata? Would you just added it after
publishing the html file? But does that mean that i would have to re-write the
metadata each time i published the file?!
Gipoh
2009-03-26 08:47:11 UTC
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Hi there,
In the publish settings you can turn off publishing the HTML file. Like that
you don't have to change the meta data back. But if you already renamed the
html file to index.html (and your fla file isn't called index.fla) you can
publish your files without a problem.

For meta information look here:

http://searchenginewatch.com/2167931

Greetings,
Guido
[hr]http://www.grafia.fr/ | http://www.missechantillons.fr/ |
http://www.rouedescadeaux.com | http://www.tvsoiree.fr/

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