RE: FLASH: HTML site

[Matt Coyne]

another way of looking at it would be to make a very simple yet 

elegant html version using *some* of the graphical styling and 

navigation from your flash site, then the rest is text based.


this does all depend on the nature of the site, however, and without 

a URL my comments could be misleading.


IMHO flash designers want to push the medium as much as poss. if the 

html version is as funky looking as the flash site you are placing 

yourself in a position where visitors may not think the flash 

download is worthwhile [especially as a sliced up gif is still going 

to give a hefty download without the benefits of flash].


visitors may also want to use the html version as an information 

resource on return to the site after already having viewed the funky 

flash site before.


the answer to your question does depend on the very nature of your 

site. if it is very graphic laden and not content heavy then the 

graphic slicing may be a better option. however, you may find that 

this method does nothing for your site as it is bandwidth heavy and 

you lose all the great things you were doing with flash [whoops, 

already said that!].


I could waffle all day on this subject but i feel my comments are not 

being directed specifically to your purpose. give us a url and we can 

have a look...


matt





>  > > I'm done with a site in Flash, and now i'm working on the HTML

>  > version of

>  > > the same site.

>  > > My question is:

>  > > What do you people recomend?  Export the same flash doc. i

>  > already have in

>  > > GIF format and slice it and then create the image maps,  or

>  > build the enitre

>  > > page in the traditional way (that for me would be using Dreamweaver and

>  > > exporting every single element into the HTML doc etc etc.)

>

>As far as I know the only disadvantage would be size, but besides that

>slicing up the GIF's you extracted from your swiffs, is the way to go!

>Thanks, Edwin.

>

>

>

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