Looking for tutorials or guides on flash-web design

Question

Hi,
I am a (software not web) programmer, not too experienced with flash.
However I am planning to do some web design with a friend who is a flash artist.  I have worked with him before and found that he embedded way too much in flash, and it made it difficult for me to display a lot of the dynamic elements.  This was probably 90% my own inexperience.
I was wondering if anyone could recommend any books that cover issues to do with designing websites using flash as the graphical elements, but html etc. for the  bulk of the elements i am going to be loading from a database etc.  (Or if its possible to do everything through flash, perhaps just some guides on that ).

Answer 1

When you create a Flash swf file by publishing the source fla, you have the option to have it also publishan html file. The embedding code in that html file can be copied and pasted into any web page, so that you can paste Flash content in just like you would an image or a section of text.  The embedding code just tends to take up alot of room.  But still, you can embed as many swf files as you like in the same html page.
I am uncertain what you mean by loading content from a database.  Normally, text content might be loaded from a DB, though XML is often better because it relaxes the need to for the maintenance crew to have to learn how to edit a database, or to create some interface that makes the easy for them.  Images or Flash content would normally be placed on the server in some folder rather than be stored in  DB (which I have been told is possible).
I don't personally know of any tutorials that deal with specific approaches to designing a web site involving Flash, though anytime I need to find something I find Google to be a very helpful resource.  I just don't know what you're really after that I could suggest some good search terms.