Building a Flash website
Author: Bill Trikojus
This basic Flash tutorial will show you how to structure a Flash website to ensure smooth transitions between sections and preloading of all external content. The website is broken up into multiple swfs which are loaded into a container swf using loadMovie(). This ensures that the user only has to download data that they wish to see.
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Part one
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Part two
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Part three
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Bonus source files
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These 2 extra source files show how to set up basic website Flash structures. One shows how to achieve a smooth transition by covering the current content with a box, the other uses a similar method to that outlined in this tutorial but is a more solid structure that will not jump if the user clicks on multiple buttons in quick succession. These files require Flash CS3.
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Comments
2008-04-25: Ryan McGinn said:Thank you! This tutorial is simply amazing. Thank you for taking an hour (in what seemed to be the middle of a busy day for you while teaching classes) and putting this together. This single tutorial has answered all of my questions regarding loading separate sections of a flash-based page. I can't wait until I have time to follow your tutorial again, and build my page as I go.
Thanks again!
Ryan
2008-07-24: Rajkumar said:Nice tutorials,
Perfect for beginners like me
2008-09-12: Martin Hunter said:Hi enjoy that tutorial, I know flash has a major issue with SEO but i have read in many places that you can still get decent rankings using SWFobject. Could you produce a tutorial in the Flash SEO area?
2008-09-12: Bill Trikojus said:Yes you can. It is far from an ideal SEO solution but it works OK. The basic concept is you embed the swf using the swf object and in the div that swf gets placed into you place all your plain text content. Google doesn't execute javascript so it just sees the text in the div and other users see the swf that replaces the text. There is a tute for the old version of the
swfObject and I will make an updated version if I get time.
cheers
2008-09-27: rajat said:hi, nice tutorial. can i use it with flash cs2?
2008-10-01: Diane Luu Ta said:HI
Thanks for the tutorial. IT really help me alot.
But I have one question to ask. How can the swf file play itself with the preload before anyone click other button to load other swf file? Do u understand what I mean.
2008-10-01: Bill Trikojus said:Hi Diane
The extra downloadable source files show how to detect if a button is clicked while a movie is downloading, and to switch to loading the new movie that the user has selected.
Check those out
cheers
2009-01-20: fay said:Hi great tutorial, thanks! I'm kind of new at flash, and I followed the tutorial and understood it pretty well.
I'm creating a portfolio website and I'm trying to have on the folio page links to more pages for ex. retail, identity etc.
I just don't seem to know exactly how to load these swf. files into the folio page.
Please help!
thank you
2009-01-20: Bill Trikojus said:Pretty sure
this gallery tutorial shows how to do that. Also check out
Online Galleries if you're interested in a template portfolio website.
cheers
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