Re: FLASH: Achieving True Flash Enlightenment

[Philip Dhingra]

I would recommend that you do your whole site in flash, for these reasons:


- Flash put as just a navigation tool is a gimmick and doesn't really make

the whole web site viewing experience any better.

- Flash on separate pages is also useless because then people have to wait

for a new HTML site to connect and then have the flash initalize itself once

again

- Images are not a "no-no" for Flash, and look better presented via Flash

because you're not constrained by HTML's placement.


I'm somewhat of a purist, though, so take it with a grain of salt, but I

think you'd be better off in the long run doing everything in flash, and

then making a sub-standard HTML version on the side.


- Philip Dhingra

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From: Mike Grove <

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Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 1:18 PM

Subject: FLASH: Achieving True Flash Enlightenment



>Hi, folks.....

>

>I've been trying to come to grips with the concept of integrating Flash

>into an existing web site. Do most of you use frames to accomplish this

>task, placing the flash portion in one frame as a navigation tool used to

>link to pages from the existing site in another frame? Is it better to

>forget the old site and rebuild entirely in Flash? It seems to me that

>using Flash to just do some nifty rollovers is kind of like threading a

>needle with a sledge hammer since it's such a powerful tool.

>

>For an example let's say the site contains a portfolio section of images.

>Since bitmaps are kind of a no-no in Flash, would that part of the site be

>better off as an old-fashioned .html page? I hope I'm making sense here.

>

>I feel like I'm six years old again learning to ride my first two-wheel

>bicycle and I'm...almost.....there....but I haven't quite grasped the

>concept. I've learned quite a lot since we purchased the program and have a

>pretty fair grip on the basics. The tutorials from some of you and

>Macromedia have been very helpful and I'm at the stage where all the pieces

>need to come together to transport me to "Flash Nirvana".

>

>The manual only takes you so far and then it appears we must venture out on

>our own, looking at other Flash sites, talking with each other on the list,

>listening to other users' questions and discussions and possibly getting a

>book on the subject. Am I on the right track here?

>

>Thanks for all the nuggets of knowledge so far,

>

>Mike Grove

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