Polygon-shape buttons

Hello everyone,
I am a new enthusiastic subscriber of CC, and as every newcomer I have several questions. I will limit myself though to only one issue for now. Here is a link for an interactive architectural presentation I did:
http://www.transsilta.com/ncc/auringonkeha/auringonkeha.html
This file works nicely but has been built in Flash, and that's make impossible to be run on tablets and iOS. I want to rebuild it directly in html. As long as I have the full access to all CC programs, I will highly appreciate the advices from you:
- which of the programs are appropriate to obtain this result (I am sure that I have to use several)?
- how I can create an interactive polygon with fade-in and fade out effect and to use it as a button? This is essential because I have to mark precisely on the facade where is every apartment. A bounding box area does not help because the neighboring polygons will overlap on the corners if are bounding boxes, so is need such of polygons which interacts strictly within their perimeter.
Thank you in advance for your help, I am waiting forward for your answers or even for some examples if possible. Once I get the point I am sure I can develop the learning process until I will able to rebuild the presentation.
Cheers,
Ville

Hello K8,
Thank you for your answer! I've been using for a while Swiffy convertor as a compromise, but the problem with it is that it doesn't work well on all browsers. To me would be the ideal solution, to work as before and only to convert the swf into html. But simply is not working as it might.
Flash to html sounds good as a principle, but I am not using actually Flash but Swish, which does not create .fla documents, only directly swf. Do you have a recommendation for one of the possible scenarios:
- to keep converting using Swiffy, but to improve html by adding some scripts to became compatible with all browsers. I have no idea what scripts, but maybe someone can help ( I am not a programmer)
- to learn to use real Flash (I think is quite similar with Swish) and to export from there into html with a better coverage
- to have better converter than Swiffy. Any recommendation?
- to start to use Muse/Animate as intended, but I need a substantial help from someone to learn the basics.
I am waiting for your or/and other users opinion and once I will make the right decision with your help I will work on it until everything will work great.
Cheers,
Ville

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