Flash Site Design - flash and HTML

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flash and HTML

Eleni

2007-10-26, 6:15 pm

I'm starting a website for my company with limited knowledge of Flash, but I'm
learning. I've seen a few topics that are similar to my question, but not
exactly, so I will go ahead and ask.

My partner would like to have a way for our site to detect whether or not a
viewer has Flash, and if they do not, he'd like the viewer to have a choice of
either downloading the player, or going to an HTML version of our site.

It seems as if this should be possible, but I'm not sure how to set it up.
Should I basically set up an entire Flash site within a HTML dreamweaver page
so that a viewer can then link to the other HTML pages of the site if he or she
doesn't have Flash? Can Flash or Dreamweaver even detect whether a viewer has
Flash?

If someone can point me in the right direction to figure this out of start to
set it up I would really appreciate it. Also, if you know of any real-world
examples, I'd love to see them.

Thanks!

Sketchsta

2007-10-27, 6:15 pm

Hi Eleni

Flash can Definately check if a browser has Flash player installed.
have a look in

File ---> Publish Settings ---> HTML tab

NOTE:
make sure you have both SWF and HTML selected in the first tab. Each time you
select from one of the options, a new tab becomes available. You are looking
for the HTML tab, and at the top, you should see a check box for "Detect Flash
Version".
Checking this box, then pressing the Publish button at the bottom, gets Flash
to generate a html page for your SWF with embed code, and Flash Detection Code.

Hope this helps you out. and Welcome to Flash. :grin; You will LOVE it!!

zeeblt

2007-11-13, 6:15 pm

thank you! :)

Sketchsta

2007-11-13, 10:14 pm

You're welcome