Flash :: How To Make Flash/html Hybrid Sites

Question About Hybrid Sites (Flash And HTML).
I'm planning on making my first hybrid site. I'm going to have a top banner that's in Flash and right under that I'll have the navigation, also in Flash. All of the content will be below in HTML.

My question:
What's the best way to do this in Dreamweaver? Should I make a top and a bottom frame? Should I use iFrames, if so, how?

For an example of what I'm looking for check this out. http://soccer.org/
You'll notice the Flash navigation is at the top while all of the content is below in HTML format.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Adressing Movie Clips And Hybrid Sites
hi,

I am tryin to make a hybrid site with a flash navigation menu.

I dont know how to target an element on a html page from within the flash file.

On the home page there is a flash menu at the top of the page and the rest of the page is html. How do i load a frame in the page with different content by clicking the flash menu.

Also if there are 3 movies on the stage, how do u target all the timelines within the movie clips by clicking on 1 movie.

Thanks...

and thanks for the help on the preloader.

Make Flash Hybrid Cd
hi all,
im trying to make a hybrid cd (so users can view my animation on both macs and pcs). ive got my hqx file, exe file etc... and am using macimage to create the iso file. now im using nero to burn make the disc. my question is: do i just need to burn the .iso file? ive tried this and the cd just didnt work or do anything? do i have to burn all my files (hqx, exe etc...) and the iso file? whatever i do it doesnt seem to work. please help!
- D

Hybrid Flash+html
Hi guys,

I've spent way too much time on this problem without solving it. Please point out some sources or anything that has more elaborate(exact) explanations how to be done. I have a flash navigation on the top frame and I use iframes for all of my content. I don't have flash to flash communication. I'd like though when the user clicks on a link from the flash nav to refresh only the html part(flash nav doesn't reload). Thank you in advance.

Hybrid HTML And Flash Forms
I'm trying to figure ouut how I can set up a form that contains both html and flash elements. I have a flash movie with some input boxes, then just an html form with a few more input boxes. How can i post the flash input box data with the html post data. Is this possible? I was thinking that I could use hidden form elements and populate them with the flash data as it is filled in. But i don't know if there is a better way. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot.

matt

Flash / Html Hybrid Menu
Hi All,

I am trying to create a hybrid site using a flash menu system and a html body. My question is:

How do I maintain the state of the menu tree (for example Products>Monitors>Samsung) when the page loads, without reverting to the original state of the flash manu file (ie Products)?

I know that one way out is to use a frameset for the html page. I do not want to do this. A good exmaple of what I want to do can be found at http://www.mica.edu.

Thanks in advance,

Maddunr

Flash/HTML Hybrid Menu?
Hey All,

I'm building a site that's essentially HTML driven, but the client would like to have a Flash navigation menu. The whole thing is VERY simpe - just a bar with a block that will slide back and forth to show which section the user is in.

My question is...is there a way to pass a variable into the Flash file from each html page so that the section the user is in is shown on the menu. (without frames preferably)

In other words, let's say the menu looks something like this, with the "V" being the marker for the current section:

V
SECTION 1 | SECTION 2 | SECTION 3

When the user clicks on section 2, it will load up a new html page (with the same .swf file as the navigation bar), but i'd like the "V" to go to section 2 when this new page loads up. Does this make sense? Is there an easy way to do this? Any help would be great!

Thanks,
CB

Hybrid Flash/HTML Forms
I'd like to create a form that will post values from an html form and from a flash form at the same time. Both the html form and the flash form reside on the same page. I can't get it to submit both. Is this possibe. I was thinking of putting the flash field values into hidden variable fields on the form. Is this possibe? And/or is it the best/only way to do? Any input would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Matt

Frameset Hybrid Flash/HTML Help Needed
I have a website where I want only 2 frames.
In top frame I want Flash Navigation and in the bottom frame
I want to open html page (which is of course controlled by the top frame). My question is: How can I set it so that the scrollbar goes through the whole page, not just the bottom (html) page??
In other words, when I scroll the page down I want the flash navigation to scroll up along with the html page.
I'm pretty sure this can be done but I have no idea how to do it.
Can anyone help me???

Thank you in advance.

Loader Issue For Flash/html Hybrid
Hello,

Here's the deal.

I'm using a Flash navigation for my html website.... It's a fairly large file so it defintely requires a preloader.

After the initial loading (now the flash is cached), when a user goes to another page they are forced to see the loader for a split second each time they enter a new page......Is there any way for me to skip those three loader frames once the navigation has already been cached?

thanks

Question About Hybrid HTML/ Flash Website
I currently have a website that's pure HTML, and I'd like to replace the simple navigation bar with a Flash counterpart. Why? Because I want to make a navigation bar with animations. My question is this, if the rest of my site is HTML while the navigation bar is Flash, what will happen when a user clicks on a navigation bar button, that animation starts to play, but then the user is taken to another page? I take it the Flash nav bar will be interupted, right? Is there a way to make the nav bar persistant throughout all my pages, so that when the user clicks on the various buttons, the nav bar doesn't reload, and the animations are nice and smooth.

Here's my site: www.leogura.com

Please keep in mind, I don't want to recreate a fully Flash site. I just want to add Flash elements. Thanks.

Flash, HTML Hybrid W/ Frames And Internal Navigation
Hey,
First time really using flash, but here's the problem.

I've created an index page w/ two frames, menu and content.

The menu is made in flash and involves a pop-up menu that obviously changes the content in content.

Here's the problem:
I have one long, long html document with several <a name=stage1> tags. I want my flash menu to link to those varying tags, but can't seem to do it.

What I've tried so far:
"on release, on (release) {
getURL ("company.html/#stage1", "content");
}

-or-

on (release) {
getURL ("company.html#stage1", "content");
}

But neither works for reasons not obvious to me. Please tell me it is possible to do this as I've been wracking over several manuals to no avail.

Sincerely,
OfficeMonkey

Flash Audio Player In A Html Hybrid Site.
Hi guys,

I looked all over the place trying to find a solution for this problem and I am sure that one of you know how to help me.

I am building a hybrid flash/html site. On that site there is a need for a flash audio player. The playback of that page should not interupt as the user goes from page to page.

So far the only solution I seem to see is having a frame or an iFrame.

Is that the only way to solve this problem?

Thanks,

D.

Flash/html Hybrid Website With Shopping Cart
I was wondering if creating an all flash site with the exception of 1 frame where text content and shopping cart goes is a better solution then creating an all flash website but when the user wants to shop a pop up html shopping cart comes up.

Hybrid Flash.HTMl Site - Flash Reloads?
I have a website im working on, my first site using flash.
I have a header which is FLASHMX and the bottom part is HTML.
When you click on the flash it plays an animation, loads a picture, then uses "get url, self" to open a new html page.

My problem then is that the flash header reloads itself!!
How do i get around this??
Ive seen plenty of hybrid flash/html sites....dont tell me that they all use Frames??

There must be a way..

Full Flash Website Vs. Hybrid HTML/Flash?
Im looking to building a website. Anyone have any suggestions which route to take whether a full Flash site or a hybrid HTML/Flash site? Im leaning towards a hybrid site cause I believe it will be easier for me to get it up and running quicker cause of my low level Flash skill level.

ToolJob

Frames Html Hybrid
hi, I am creating a site with two frames, top and main. The top has my main movie with all navigation. I am using pretty basic ActionScript to update the nav and headers in the flash movie and using a geturl to change the content page in the main html window. Is there a way I can access the main flash movie from an html page in the main content frame? If I have a simple html text link that is calling another subpage in another section, how can I get it to also tell the main flash movie to reload the proper graphics for that section? Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance!
BD

SWFAddress/HTML Hybrid
So we're in the super early stages of a site redesign at work, and we're facing our first big decision.

The intent as of right now is to have a hybrid Flash/HTML site, with the bantop & main navigation, as well as the primary content (video), all contained in a Flash file at the top, and the secondary elements (About text, comments, other information) all done by HTML/CSS below the fold (static, but with a bit of PHP to variablize/templatize as much as possible).

So, my question is how well will this approach play together, assuming we go with SWFAddress to handle a good deal of the primary navigation. Our biggest concern is maintain static copy & paste-friendly, "marketable" URLs. SWFAddress addresses this (ahem, no pun intended) partially, but is it feasible to have the navigation within Flash update the HTML content on the pages without window reload while simultaneously going to the appropriate Flash section?

The only reason for this, really is to keep the experience somewhat seamless. Is this an approach you'd recommend, or would we be better off keeping everything static, and having full page reloads (as we currently do)? If we kept the same approach, there would be no additional SEO issues, marketable URLs would remain (without the "#"), and it's technically MUCH easier from my mostly-designer/partially-dev perspective.

THANKS!

How Do You Make Large Flash Sites Flow Better, Faster. Please Help.
Stupid question, I've made a few flash sites before but luckly they ended up begin smallish(~5 pages etc, <.5mb) so download times were not that bad, I would just end up throwing everything in one big scene. Now I have to make a big site and the flash file will be larger (>2mb).

So how do I break-up the site when I'm making it to decrease the time it would take to get the flash site started and help it flow better when users jump from page to page? Do I put different pages in different scenes? Will that help? Or do I put different pages in different flash files and call them from other flash files? Do I convert the other pages into movie items and call them from the first scene to get started and then go from there?

IN OTHER WORDS HOW DO I MAKE LARGER FLASH SITES WORK LIKE THE PROS DO? All I need is a clue to go in the right direction so I don't waste time fixing a big mess.

Thank you for your time
Michael (aka Gnorts)

Why Don't Flash Websites Look Like Html Sites?
Flash sites always try to fit the whole site on the monitor at once and always end up being really small and I never like that. Why are there no flash sites that look like normal html sites that you scroll down the page to see the rest.

I am asking this because dreamweaver table layouts are really starting to piss me off and I think it would be easier if I could just rebuild it in flash. 100%

Is it just convention? Are files smaller if you make the frame in html or what?

Survey - HTML Vs. Flash Sites
I use to make a HTML version of my Flash web site, but the time and labour was costly. My audience is in the entertainment field so I think they would be up to date on their browsers hence I am only producing a Flash version. Do you think I am missing out on potential viewers? Are your new sites being produced only in Flash, both HTML/Flash or are there hybrids being produced?

Flash & Html Sites In Multiple Languages
Getting ready to develop a site for a client who wants a flash version and an HTML version which will both be delivered in 2-4 languages.

I'm using flash MX 2004 Pro, and am trying to figure out the easiest/best way to set everything up, unicode, xml, includes, etc...

Ideally, I want everything to come from the same source, since the client wants to be able to update content monthly (and they'll deal with translating the new content).

And the kicker, they'd like to be able to update and add new photos...on both versions...

Has anyone done a project like this, or does anyone have any ideas on how to make this go smoothly??

TIA!!!

Managing Content - HTML & Flash Sites
Hello,

I'm creating a site that will maintain two versions, HTML and Flash. Is there a superior method to manage the content? Obviously, I don't want to update two sites so I was thinking of writing the content to an XML file and having both sites read from the XML. Would that be the best route? Thanks for any opinions.

Luke

Printing From Flash Sites - Should I Change To Html?
Hi all

I'm doing a site for a model:

http://www.laurenelise.designreel.com

under construction at the mo

in the portfolio section with the images I need it so that the images can be seen bigger and also printed straight from the site.

Having thought about this I think I should place each pic in a HTML page and then link it externally so the user can click file print.

would this be the best way to go about it?

Regards

Dips

Loading External Sites (HTML) In Flash... Is It Possible?
Ok, im getting fustrated because i really need to know how to load pages the way http://www.pdk.pl/index_f.html does. The reason for this is that the size of the swf is changing depending on which page u are on. I checked the source code and have no clue what it means. Then i downloaded a complier to see the AS and the decomplier keeps saying it either is a page that contains frames or just flat doesn't work. PLEASE help me find out how http://www.pdk.pl/index_f.html (in terms of changing pages). Thanks VERY MUCH.

*EDIT*I found that it consists of too 'frames' but they arent traditional frames. Here is the link to the seperate pages http://www.pdk.pl/mainFrame_f.html.

Mike

Dynamic Flash Menue Activating Html-sites
hi everybody,
the attaching flash-file shows a dynamic rotating menue in the middle of the stage. i want to include the swf-file in a html-site, which is built up by frames (top and main frame)
in the top frame should be the swf-file as navigation and in the main
frame should be loaded the different html-sites.
my question is:

which command i need to include into the different flash-buttons
to activate the according html-sites. ("get url" is obvious - but it doesn't function )

please help
best regards
janni

9 Flash Sites On One Html Page. Loading Levels Problem
I have 9 flash sites enbeded into 1 html page. The visitor has to scroll to each site on the page.
The problem I am having is as follows:

Each movie has several levels which can be loaded and unloaded. There is text also that loads from an external txt file. This site works on my hard disk but not on the web, why? Does loading and unloading levels affect the other flash movies?

here is the site so far!

Celtic Sofa Surfer

Any Sites With Good Flash Sites Links Organized By Catagory And Ranking?
Can anyone recommend a site that has links to a bunch of really good and inspirational flash sites, especially divided into different categories, organized by ranking, and updated regularly?

How To Make Flash Make Html Page Return To Top?
Hey guys,
I created a website which contains a verticaly large flash movie on it which displays information. In order to read the bottom half of info, the user must scroll down the page. I was wondering if anyone knows the code to make a "return to top" button in flash which would send the html page back to the top without reloading the actual page itself of corse. I just cant figure out how to do it. Thans!

What Should I Know To Make Sites Like 2advanced?
I saw many many cool flash sites. And I wanna know what kind of knowledge they have. And what should I study to be a web master like them.

What Size Do You Usually Make Your Sites...?
i was curious what page size everyone likes to work with, when designing with flash.... and are there any kind of rules.. one should know when selecting a screen size?

thanks...

Best Of HTML Sites?
I know there are a ton of flash galleries and flash awards, but I was wondering if there was anything like a bestflashanimationsites.com for non flash sites. I'm having to do some more non-flash sites and was wondering what is the best out there?

thanks

How To Make Sites Easily Updateable For Clients...
I'm curious, how do you guys make sure that it's easy for clients to update their sites? I understand loading dynamic data into flash and all that, but you still need to know the basics of editing a text file, and uploading it to an FTP site. It's very simple, but for some clients even that is too much to ask. Is there a web app that would let a client log-in and edit their site's data?

For example, if I created a "news.txt" file which is accessed by the flash page, could I make it so that a client could use a webpage to alter that file?

I'm about to do a site for a guy who resurfaces pool tables, and he made it clear that he has NO computer skills at all, so I'm trying to figure out how to make this as painless as I can.

Thanks!
joey

He'p Loading Web Sites Into Flash Sites
Hey, all--

I'm trying to find a way to load an external website directly into a specific area of a Flash movie/site, without opening up a new window or replacing all of the movie's contents in the current browser window. My movie is built around a designed frame (not .html frame, but a graphic that frames the content) with a nav bar along the left side of the frame and a big hole in the center where most of the content lives. Is there a way I can load sites directly into that hole, keeping the graphic frame and nav bar where they are, around it? Or would it require rebuilding the page using .html frames, cutting up the graphics around the hole and making each of those chunks its own .html frame?

Thanks for any help!

Flash Hybrid
I was wondering if the flash/html sites are made in flash. Meaning if you can insert html sections within flash. I am not real clear on the flash/html site someone please fill me in and a tutorial would be nice. Thanks DM

Grabbing HTML Sites?
Grabbing HTML sites???

I worked for a big Internet company, and recently was laid off (big surprise).
I am a PhotoShop/Flash artist and know very little about coding.

I want to have complete copies of the sites I created on disc for future reference.
Years ago I used to use Web Whacker on my Mac to "Grab" sites (the HTML code and all the art).
I've tried SiteSucker, Web Dumper, PageSucker and GetWeb to try to get the sites but none work.

With my limited knowledge, I believe I am only getting the JavaScript commands located at the URL
example:

<script language="JavaScript">var bname = navigator.appName; document.writeln(""); if (bname.indexOf( 'Netscape' ) != -1) document.writeln(""); else document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); document.writeln(""); </script>

Question: How do I get around this and Grab the site HTML and art?

What software do I use and how do I do this? (I have a Mac and a PC)
Doesn't BBEdit for the Mac do this? How?

I know , I know, I should have taken care of this when I still worked there.
The good news is I believe I have back-ups of all the Flash files I created.

(Sorry for the stupid HTML question, I usually ask pretty cool Flash questions.)

Preloading Whole Php/html Sites
Hello. Maybe this is a silly question, but I would like to use a preloader for a website I am making. I have never made a preloader before, but the only tutorials I can find are for an XML file or to attach to the start of the swf itself. I want to preload a whole website which has php and flash, therefore I can't just attach it to the movie. I want to just have a preloader on a little splash page and a little progress bar and when it's done, the user has the option to enter page.

I'm sure this is simple, I'm probably just thick.

Hybrid To Pure Flash
Hi...

Right now I have a complex page built and I want to remake this page so that it functions the same, but uses only flash (no more hybrid design).

The problem I am running in to is tying the PHP together with Flash. I can pass variables back and forth no problem, but I do not know how to detect if this variable is fully loaded in to Flash. When using a textfield it is no problem because Flash will automatically place the text in to the textfield whenever it's done loading. However, how is this done otherwise?

If I query the PHP page and have it return the result (for example: echo "&result=blah,blah,blah,blah,blah" and I want Flash to take that returned string and split it at every , (NOT do this with php's explode function), how do i determine if the return string is fully loaded <B>WITHOUT</B> using a timeline loop?

basically, let's say I have a button that has this:

Code:
on(press)
{
loadVariablesNum("page.php?section=1", 0, "POST");
myArray = result.split(",");
for(i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
...
}

and the php is something along the lines of

Code:
<?
$section = $_GET['section'];
switch($section)
{
case 1:
$message = "&result=blah,blah,blah,blah,blah";
break;
...
echo $message;
}
?>

how do I check, in flash, that "result" is fully loaded in to flash so that I can continue with the actionscript to manipulate the string.

Sort of like doing the following, which makes logical sense, but does not work:

Code:
on(press)
{
loadVariablesNum("page.php?section=1", 0, "POST");

while(1)
if(message != "")
{
myArray = result.split(",");
break;
}
}

HTML Background Of Sites Not Showing.
Hey guys, I'm back!!!! I have an itsy bitsy problem and I'm hoping that maybe somebody has experienced the same thing and can help with a solution. Oh yeah, I searched the forum, but couldn't find an answer so here goes: I have designed several "template" sites as a way to help get better at learning Flash MX 2004 Pro. I'm working on a iMac G4 using Flash MX Pro and I designed each site so that there would be a main movie with external movies loaded in via movieclips to represent my pages. I encased each of my main movies in XHTML using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and then uploaded them to my server. When I test each ot the sites, everything works great EXCEPT THIS:One of my .swf sites has a purple background to it, so when I inserted it into my XHTML page in Dreamweaver, I coded for the background to also have the same purple color so that everything would blend and seem seamless. But when I pull up the site in a browser (I tested it on I.E., Firefox, Safari, Opera and Camino), the background of the XHTML page is white. It's not showing the color that I specified in the code. I'm thinking that it's not showing because I inserted an .swf into the page, but then I figured that that was strange because being that Dreamweaver and Flash are both made by the same company, something like that shouldn't be an issue. Anyway, has anyone else experienced this? You can check out the site here.

I could really use the help!

How Do You Imput Links To Html Sites
how do you imput links to html sites!!!
:sure

Debugging Flash Projector On Hybrid Cd-rom
Hope someone can help me with this - I finally finished my flash project and tried to burn a hybrid mac/pc cd-rom for distribution; unfortunately when it was tested on a mac, the application stops working. This only happens in one of the sections of the application, always in the same place (while preloading content).

On a pc it works fine, and both the mac and pc share assets from a common folder to both volumes.

The whole application was tested thoroughly on a mac before burning, and the rest of the app works fine, so there isnt an issue with the mac portion being able to access any of the shared assets (xml files, images etc).

Could it be a speed issue to do with accessing data from the CD rather than a hard drive? In which case it should just take longer to load, rather than just hanging, surely?

I'm not sure how to go about trying to fix this - im going to try running X-Ray off the cd rom to debug, but if anyone knows of anything else I could try, it would be very much appreciated!

cheers,
J

Hybrid Flash Site For Blinds
I'm currently working on a flash web site which the clients wants it to be compatible for blinds. I never saw a blind navigate on a website with a braille keyboard but i already know that frames are not good, that every image should have a alt attribute to describe the image. I'm also gonna use xhtml so that the structure of the page is perfect.

I would like it be to be an hybrid site with a flash menu. I don't think that flash would be adviced for blind people but is there anyone who already had such experience and that have used flash.

If flash is not compatible with braille keyboards is there a way to detect either if the person is using a braille keyword or not?

Hybrid Flash Site Question
What is the standard for creating hybrid sites? Do most folks use flash navbars to move from page to page with the navbar loading on each page or are they creating top and side menus that deliver content to frames?

Frames used to be frowned upon but i've been looking at flash sites lately and noticed that frames seem to be used heavily. Are frames not hated anymore?

I haven't been able to find any resources concerning this matter on the web so any links would be apreciated.

My First Hybrid Site And Flash Nav Gets Refreshed
Hi guys ,

I've been registered for like ages and this is the first time I'm writing..... anyways what I'm bout to ask is very simeple and I know I'll slapped around..... but its urgent....

I'm a DJ and just started a new Grphx job.... so my time pritty tight....

Its the first time I'm making a hybrid site and am lost bout how to call up the html part up..... my innitial plan was to use the Get URL but my flash NAV gets refreshed....

To be honest I suck in programming but know enough to get about....

Would appriciate some link or a guide....

Respect to the kings of flash

DJ Subandrio
(((((((0)))))))

Hybrid Pages, And Flash File Interaction, Is It Possible?
Hey again folks!
I want to dive into the world of hybrid pages, and are still developing my ideas on how the design for this should be. One problem I encounter is that I want to use multiple flash files in my document, but do not know if they can interact. I was thinking about making a large transparent flash file, but as I read some of the posts on here about the problems concerning transparency and mac I understand that it will be a bad idea.

Is it possible when pressing a button in one flash file to send a message to another flash file asking it to play from a certain frame?

This would improve the look of the hybrid page a lot. If it is not possible, please tell me so I can delete these ideas from my brain cells.

Hybrid Frames Flash Refresh Problem
Hi, I have a frames hybrid site with flash nav at the top and html content below. When I refresh the page using the browser "refresh" button in both IE and NN the flash movie reloads back to the homepage, but the content does not return to the home page...is there JavaScript to force the frames page to reload both the top and content frame pages? TIA

cheers, BD.

Hybrid Website Navigation And Flash Vars
hi, i've got a noob question pertaining to hybrid websites (flash and html).

if you are building a flash navigation system (nav buttons, breadcrumb, etc.) which loads different html pages how do you build in an indicator in the flash to indicate what page you're on?

meaning, you can't pass variables because the movie will be reloaded when a new html page (containing the flash movie) loads and any variables will be gone correct?

Is Flashvars a solution for this? can you use it to pass a variable to your flash movie and make decisions in flash based on that variable?

any input, advice is appreciated.

How To Make Flash/html Hybrid Sites

so what's the basic concept of this?i just want a flash menu, and all the content in html. do i have my main flash movie act as a border and load the html into a dynamic textfield? can you even load html? or does it have to be txt files?~david

so what's the basic concept of this?

i just want a flash menu, and all the content in html. do i have my main flash movie act as a border and load the html into a dynamic textfield? can you even load html? or does it have to be txt files?

~david