Axel

msg:1564977 | 3:48 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
to make it a html site, you have to use something like dreamweaver or front page and copy and paste stuff. you cant just hit a button in flash... ;( as for loading it quicker... make sure your images are as compressed as they can be. make sure you open your library (F11) and check that all the stuff in there is absolutely necessary. flash exports EVERYTHING you import whether you use it in the movie or not. vector based graphics (images made inside flash or Illustrator) are lighter and faster to load than gif's or jpg's... use vector images instead of jpg's and gif's... other than that, i know no more... hope i could help. :) good luck!
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benihana

msg:1564978 | 8:32 am on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
| flash exports EVERYTHING you import whether you use it in the movie or not. |
| not true. i just made a test movie with a line of text on the stage, and an image in the library, and exported it. then i put an instance of the image on the stage, and exported again. the first movie was ~450 bytes, the secound ~4kb. p.s. glen_b, axel welcome to webmasterworld!:)
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Glen_B

msg:1564979 | 3:30 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Thanks much for answering -- it helps a lot. I'll be working on cutting and pasting to get our site into a regular html. The way it is now, people with dial up claim it takes 5 minutes for the site to load.
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winstun

msg:1564980 | 4:29 pm on Mar 30, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Welcome to Webmaster World! Another option that may be available to you would be to load elements only as they are needed. To go along with this you could export certain elements of your .fla into smaller .swf's and loading them as required by the user. For example you could have your main interface as the initial .swf that is loaded and then for each section or sub-section have as a separate .swf that loads into a container movie clip as the user requests/ navigates there. If going this route pre-loaders are very handy and useful, especially from an end-user pov as they will know that something is loading and that something will happen instead of looking at an empty space thinking that it's not working. Whichever route you choose I hope it all works out for you. Cheers, winstun
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