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How to use flash on site

by DavidO
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I've built a flash product tour and demo for my site and I need to know the best way to format it on my site for visitors.

I started out using the Wix site builder but I've given up on it. Wix does some great things but it's got too many bugs and limitations.

My presentation uses a lot of flash animation. I'd prefer to keep it in flash because I want it to play directly on the site without a video player. Right now it's in SWF.

Thanks for any suggestions!
#flash #site
  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    SWF files can be embedded directly into a webpage (object/embed tags). So what's the question/problem?
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidO
    Thanks, Dan. I'm new to flash and I thought I needed some kind of player, like you do for video. Now I've found some sample embedding code and I'm sure I'll be able to do this.
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  • Profile picture of the author CaffeinatedWorld
    Here are the solutions for FLASH:
    1) If you have an application (not a MOVIE) the best way to put it on your website is by exporting it to SWF and then using <object> tags or by SWFObject that you can find here:
    deconcept You’ve got your good thing, and I’ve got mine SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script

    2) If you have a movie - the best player I have found is MPW Player (find it on SourceForge.net) - you can really customize it.

    IMPORTANT: If you are going to have lightboxes on your page remember to add wmode transparent to your movie parameters (you do it in html code). If you dont' do it your Lightboxes will show under the flash animation.
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