Making a "Flash" Website....confused

i admit im a complete amateur when it comes to building
websites. I went on template monster.com and saw a template that I
loved. I bought it and began using flash to edit it. Im ok
experienced in Flash but abd at actionscript. Anyway Im still in
the building phase of my website when I start thinking to my self,
How am I going to be able to let users register as members to my
website?
I go online and learn that im going to need a content
managment system which my webhost aready gave me. I also know that
when im done editing my Flash website I need to Publish it in HTML.
Heres where I get lost, after I publish the HTML in Flash and say I
open it up in Dreamweaver.....I cant do nothing to edit it in
dreamweaver its just an SWF File.
What if anything do I need to do to let open source software
work with my Flash website?

Hi,
If you are going to do your site with Flash, then I do not
think it is possible to use Opensource with it, because Open Source
CMSs is actually work on a template structure that is turn your
HTML code to PHP and embed in it PHP codes that call external
functions (Modules). If you like to use PHP with Flash, you will
need to do it manually without relay on an Open source CMS.
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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