Flash website design

Hello Dreamwevaers
I looking at this random website: http://www.iestudio.co.il/en/portfolio.html, is this flash based? im also scaling down and up the website and it doesnt seem responsive.
so what Id like to know is, how come the websites dimensions fit across my monitor which is 24"inch 1920 x 1080 display but its not scalable?isnt the whole purrpose of this type of design
to be responsive?
Thank you

Like I mentioned, Flash is essentially dead online. Adobe stopped development of it on mobile devices in 2011 to focus on HTML5 (which is nearly universally supported on handhelds). There are a lot of reasons Flash failed online with handhelds, here's an article (some would say a biased one), but the points made are valid in regards to Flash on mobile devices:http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
I think the main thing that killed Flash online was touch screens. With everything moving to touch screens and the lack of mice on those devices, even the ones that could run Flash couldn't run it correctly because so much in Flash designed sites depends on the mouse.
Flash isn't SEO friendly when used for an entire site because it uses a file that runs within an html page. Search engines look at html to decide what's important, rate and index pages. They can't look "into" the Flash file to see menus, links and relevant information. HTML5 (and CSS3), on the other hand, allows you to do a lot of what Flash does, but within "indexable" html mark-up.

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Please forgive the beginner's question. I would like to build
a flash site like
http://www.hockaday.org from an
easy to use Flash template. You get what you pay for so my first
choice isn't something for free but a 30-day free trial version
would be nice.
What I like best about
http://www.hockaday.org is the
great menus and that pictures continually reload in interesting
ways.
Maybe a template is too restrictive. Who makes the nicest,
easiest to use Flash website design software that allows fast
creation of those fancy menus and with other fast features to do
nice things with pictures and motion?
I need to create a site like
http://www.hockaday.org
immediately so I don't have the time to learn Flash first. What's
my best bet?

you are in a catch 22 - you don't have time to learn flash -
yet you need to build an entire site
immediately - you can't - sure you can download a template
that is similar but if this forum is any
proof, you almost need more flash knowledge trying to
decipher most templates in order to edit them
- search this forum, there are several posts per week from
non-flash users who purchased templates
and have no clue how to edit them. Often times it is hard for
an educated flash user to
reverse-engineer a FLA made by somebody else - Flash
documents are blank canvases that can be setup
a myriad ways by different users making the same thing - some
developers are more organized than
others - most templates are not organized but rather thrown
together for a quick profit.
You will simply need to learn enough flash to understand how
it works or hire somebody to edit the
template for you.
hope this helps.
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e.Shubee wrote:
> Please forgive the beginner's question. I would like to
build a flash site like
>
http://www.hockaday.org from an
easy to use Flash template. You get what you
> pay for so my first choice isn't something for free but
a 30-day free trial
> version would be nice.
>
> What I like best about
http://www.hockaday.org is the
great menus and that
> pictures continually reload in interesting ways.
>
> I need to create a site like that one immediately so I
don't have the time to
> learn Flash first. What's my best bet?
>
>
>

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I want to convert my website i use for my computer repair
business into a full on blown out flash site. my problem is i know
nothing about flash. not even the basics! i need help and resources
on where i can go or do to learn the basics and turn my ideas into
something everyone can see and use! any help or replies is great!
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Once you have completed your Flash animation, publish it with a .swf file (along with .gif and .jpg files).
Inside your html, at the point where you want the animation to appear, paste this code:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="xxx" HEIGHT="xxx" id="Yourfilename" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="xxxxx.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#333399> <EMBED src="images/features/xxxxx.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff WIDTH="xxx" HEIGHT="xxx" NAME="xxx" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> </OBJECT>
Make sure you place the .swf file into your "images" fold and within the above code, ensure the link is true. Also, in the code above, replace anything with "x"s with your own information.
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Google can crawl Flash, though I'm not sure how well, but either way nothing can read text that is not text - ie an image. The workaround - and still relevant for all other search engines, is to put all your content inside the div tag that your Flash is written into. The alternate content that one would see if they didn't have Flash, or didn't have JavaScript enabled.
There is a good tutorial on SEO with Flash on the SWFObject site: http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/
You can also just Google 'Flash SEO' and get a good deal of info.

How to embed youtube movie in flash website using xml pages?

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I m quite new to flash website designing. so I've downloaded a free flash website template, that is using xml pages in it. & I m using adobe flash cs4. now I wants to embed youtube movie in one of its .xml page & I wants that it shows that movie when i open that xml page in adobe flash cs4. even I've pasted youtube embeded code in one of that xml page but it does not works. so please please please resole my problem as soon as possible.
thousands of thanks to all of those who helped me....
Regards
Faiz Fareed.

Maybe you can try You Tube Api for flash
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html

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Please send me a PM.
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Would you mind reposting this question over on the Flash Professional forums? This forum is primarily for end users, the Pro forums will get you in touch with a wider developer audience.

How do I use Brige Web Gallery in a Flash website

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Advice on how to keep Flash website small & fast

Hi, I'm developing my first Flash website (I know, I know, there are plenty of reasons to use other development products, but for now it will be Flash), and I envision a site with several pages and needing to load some large graphics. I'm doing the main design work in Illustrator and importing it into Flash. I'm not too concerned with animation except perhaps moving some buttons around. My plan so far is to use a lot of UI loaders to keep the main .swf small and to really try to keep the coding pretty simple as I'm a newbie anyway. I'm looking for general advice on how to prevent the main site from loading quickly - for example, I don't have a good sense of the best format to use for graphics, or which makes the site slower: using several UI loaders or just keeping the content in the main site? Is a lot of code or large graphics more draining on the load time? Any thoughts on what you think I can do or not do to keep it lean would be super appreciated, or any other resources you might be able to point me to.
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Nah... really really stupid questions only get asked in non-Flash forums. The size of the swf is not tied tot the size of the fla. The fla has alot more baggage that inflates its size greatly compared to the swf it creates. The swf will end up bearing the weight of whatever content you put in it.
If you want to see what's adding weight to your swf, go into your Flash Publish Settings and select the option to Generate Size Report. When you publish the file it will display a detailed report of each element and the weight it contributes to the swf.
As far as dynamically loading swf's, it is often a necessity, unless the swf is strictly an animation. If you import an swf into an fla file, all of the actionscript that might have been in it is stripped out.
Code will have negligible weight in a file. Images (large/heavy ones) can put lead shoes on a file, along with video and sound files.

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Hello everyone at the Flash forums!
I am currently trying to make a Flash website for my cousin's business, and his website should feature a portfolio gallery to display the work he has done (He is a contractor). I am trying to use the SlideshowPro plug-in which generates a very nice-looking Flash gallery that is about 50 times nicer than the one he is using on his website at the moment. One of the big things I like about SSP is that it offers a full-screen picture viewing mode, which would allow potential customers of his to see work he has done better than they are currently seeing.
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Note: I attached a picture of the problem I am encountering so you guys can see what it is doing.
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Edit 2: I finally figured out how to get the gallery to not appear on other pages (Yippee!). However, the audio is still continuing to play when I navigate away from the Portfolio page.

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I've learned actionscript form resources like video and
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small projects. I'm trying to build my first flash website. do i
need to learn Flex? or anything else? do i need to study some other
courses? My problem is where to start. what's a structure of a
professional and serious full flash website? links? components (if
any)? and ... yes i've worked on small swf files. creating
actionscript effects, building some easy components before but i'm
sure they are not enough. and one more thing! is there any good
practical (and specially free!) tutorials based on this concept?
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Your first question: subjective to your skillset. http://Zen-Cart.com has their own tutorials/FAQ/Forum that has plenty of information on the subject. Make your determination from the information they provide. It's free... download it and try it yourself to find out, perhaps?
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How to integrate new Facebook social plugins with a Flash website?

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If the plugin is not designed for use with Flash and needs to be in an html page, then that's what needs to happen. Normally there is no such thing as a full Flash site. Most Flash sites are staged in an html web page, so it is possibly you can add the plugin on the same page, just not within the Flash portion.

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I don't know of any specific tutorials for what you want to build, but it sounds like you should be able to create each section as a movieclip and use the buttons to make the current section invisible and the called section visible. What you might try doing to get started is to use Google and search for code related to whatever version of actionscript you'll be using in terms of making buttons work.

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pseudo code (meaning that im just typing from memory, so it should work but might have an error)
var myLoader = new Loader();
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function addMyBannerToStage(event:Event):void{
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HTH
-Ted

NOOB to Flash SIte Design

Hi all
I am new to Flash site design and would like to see what
other people/developers are creating or find any tutorials or
discussions on this subject!
My first flash website is titled Diatonic Scales and was
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DIATONIC
SCALES.
regards
john
www.javono.com

HI
thanks for the links, I have learned heaps from
watching Craig Campbell @ learnflash.com, I will look forward to
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