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How to Build and Publish a Free Website Using Flash

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By Jackson Lewis
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Macromedia, and later Adobe, Flash is one of the most popular means for deploying animation and media-rich user expediences on the Internet. As the flash platform has matured along with Adobe's desire to release more information on formerly closed file formats to the development public, there has been an increase in the number of inexpensive products available to edit Flash websites for free. Although there are a greater number of advanced features and access to customer support through the purchase of the higher-end Adobe products, you can make a free Flash website today.

From Quick Guide: Adobe Flash Player 101
Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Flash editor
  1. Step 1

    Download a freeware flash editor, such as the Advanced Effect Maker Freeware flash editing software, and install on your computer.

  2. Step 2

    Choose the "Slide Shows, Image Processing, Broken Glass Image" options from the Flash Applet Menu. This flash applet will load multiple images in succession and create an animated picture of the image being broken similar to glass and then repeat with the next image.

  3. Step 3

    Choose the "Application Submenu." In the menu there are blank spaces with file choosing tools to pick 2D images to include in the flash animation that will be created. Pick one or many 2D images using the file choosing menu (or typing the filepath) for the pictures that you are going to use for the flash animation.

  4. Step 4

    Choose "File->Save As" from the primary application menu. The folder chosen will be the primary working folder for the flash animation file to be stored that will be created.

  5. Step 5

    "Select" the dialog box labeled "VAC" on the screen of the flash creation program. This dialogue box will allow you to modify the size of the flash animation that will be created. The default size for the flash file in pixels is 300 x 200.

  6. Step 6

    Press the "Create Applet" menu selection option. This will create the flash animated file of the pictures that you chose in the previous steps to be animated. The flash file will then appear in an application created webpage depicting the resulting file as well as the HTML code to use for your website.

  7. Step 7
    View of the sample flash webpage created.
     
    View of the sample flash webpage created.

    Copy and paste the applet embed HTML code into your website in between the opening and closing body tags ( <body> </body>).

    Code for this example:


    <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
    WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="134">
    <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="MyPics.swf">
    <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
    <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE="opaque">
    <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE="#000000">
    <EMBED src="MyPics.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#000000"
    WIDTH="200"
    HEIGHT="134"
    TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
    </EMBED>
    </OBJECT>

Tips & Warnings
  • Test your Flash website in multiple web browsers before deploying to the Internet. Many flash editors refer to Flash animations as Flash applets interchangeably.
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