Website designers

[evo801]

Hi All,

I am looking to create a temporary holding page for my website, just a general flash slideshow type thing.

Got hosting for the site and a friends agreed to do the flash animation.

Problem I have is transferring the flash animation to the site, please can anyone help?

Many thanks

[Plotloss]

First thing, don't use Flash, there are some lovely things you can do with flash, websites arent one of them.

If you absolutely have to though.

You need to move the swf file and then create a HTML page which references the swf file and upload that.

[evo801]

Thanks Plotless, you always seem to be very helpful with my questions-much appreciated.

Regarding your thoughts on using Flash-why is that?most use it do they not.

Thanks

[Plotloss]

For things like slideshows there are much more elegant and more lightweight options available using javascript and the like.

Flash requires client browsers to have a plugin installed.

Flash increases loading times of sites.

Using Flash you're also decreasing the useability of the site significantly for people on mobile browsers and the small number of people on things like screen readers for the visually impaired etc.

The content held within flash objects also cannot be indexed, which will affect ranking.

[evo801]

Many thanks - much help