Flash text and flash buttons in DW CS4

Hi,
I have installed DW CS4 on my pc with Vista Home Premium 64
Bit...I have edit my website homepage and I have discovered that I
can't edit all flash text and buttons that I have created with DW
CS3! I have see that the adobe has removed from CS4 version this
option! So, now how I can resolve this problem??
I have try to install also the CS3 version but I don't
understand because I can't no more activated it from internet or
phone option!
I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
begin all flash text and buttons of my website with other software?
perhaps to buy also the Flash CS4 version for the solution? is this
the new idea of adobe with their new CS4 version?

> I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
begin all flash
> text
> and buttons of my website with other software? perhaps
to buy also the
> Flash
> CS4 version for the solution? is this the new idea of
adobe with their new
> CS4
> version?
It was a poor choice on Adobe's part to ever include such an
option, and on
your part for using it. Think about it -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
Especially
consider those people who are browsing from a corporate
internet where Flash
is not allowed by the IT staff.
2. Search engines may not parse Flash links - your site will
not be
spidered unless you have redundant HTML links
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what
will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you
move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?
You will have
to remake those buttons.
It's almost always a very bad idea for these reasons.
The solution is to make graphics to replace the Flash
elements, or just use
CSS styled text.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"s76x" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
> I have installed DW CS4 on my pc with Vista Home Premium
64 Bit...I have
> edit
> my website homepage and I have discovered that I can't
edit all flash text
> and
> buttons that I have created with DW CS3! I have see that
the adobe has
> removed
> from CS4 version this option! So, now how I can resolve
this problem??
> I have try to install also the CS3 version but I don't
understand because
> I
> can't no more activated it from internet or phone
option!
>
> I'm very angry for this, now I have to recreate from the
begin all flash
> text
> and buttons of my website with other software? perhaps
to buy also the
> Flash
> CS4 version for the solution? is this the new idea of
adobe with their new
> CS4
> version?
>

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>
>
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