Flash to html help

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Michelle McMichael

Michelle McMichael

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I am working on our new portfolio site for our wedding work. I purchased a flash/cms template and have finished customizing it, but now I want to add an html version for dial up users.

I downloaded the free flash trial to customize the template and I have now downloaded the free trial of dreamweaver to do the html part. I chose dreamweaver because both flash and dreamweaver are from adobe, but I've never used it before.

My question is: Does anyone know of a simple way to import my .fla file into dreamweaver to build the html pages? I am trying to make this as simple and inexpensive as possible.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! Once I get it finished and up I would be more than happy to share my experiences with whomever is interested.
 
I would recommend against flash slideshows for wedding work for a couple of reasons. First, search engines don't index flash very well (if at all). When a bride searches for a hydrangea wedding bouquet, you want to have a chance of being found.

Secondly, brides can't link directly to a particular bouquet from a forum post, if it's in a flash gallery. We get thousands of pageviews monthly from the various wedding forums because a bride has linked directly to a bouquet.

That being said, you can't directly manipulate flash in the same way you do HTML. I think there are a couple of tools out there which will convert flash to HTML, but I don't think this is what you want. My guess is, the flash gallery you bought looks for all images in a particular directory (or which are listed in a settings file). All you'll get if you decompile for FLA file is the code which enumerates the files and displays them. Nothing exciting.
 
Thanks for the reply.

Most of the above is why I want to recreate the flash pages in html. I not only want to give dial-up users another option for the site, I also want to provide pages within the site that can be indexed.

Most of the site will not be in flash. Mainly I will have "pretty and flashy" home, about us and contact pages with links on them to other html pages, and html copies of those same main pages with the same links. I will advertise the main flash site, but I expect most searches to find the non-flash portions of the site.

I was really just hoping that there was a "magic shortcut" since I have the flash movie looking just how I want it.... but I have resigned myself to the fact that I just need to keep working (and learning) on it.

Thanks again for the input!
 
Michelle - most of the flash templates I've seen also include a static html copy of it - didn't yours come with one?
 
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