INDESIGN CS5 .SWF files to large

So, I thought with Indesign CS5 it would be a great idea to do a website with full idesign. This was working great until I realized that as i exported to a .SWF it was 49.9mb. Now i know that this is a large website (almost 70+) pages long. But is there any advice anyone can give me to shrink the file size or was it a bad idea to begin a website in INdesign right now. I know that using flash and .css and all that is the traditional way of doing a website but at the same time I don't like messing with all that code and thought this would be a great way to build a website.
ANY help would be great because i can't afford to have a 3 and a half minute download time on a website.
Thanks,
Justin

I think I may have responded to this in the community help section, but I'll repeat what I said there. InDesign has some impressive Flash capabilities but using it to create an entire website....no, not a good idea at all.
The size of the SWF files is a major issue and they are quite simply not suitable for this purpose. Additionally, an entire website in Flash is an SEO nightmare so it won't matter how long it takes to load since nobody is likely to find it.
Flash should be used judiciously on the web. In fact, I never use it. All that said, the only advice I can offer if you decide to ignore the rest of it, is to export to FLA, open it in Flash Professional and finish it up there.
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