Flash Header

[bigbstanley]

Does anyone know of a way to have a flash header on a web page and only change the content part of the page while keeping the flash from reloading. I've tried using iframes however it just looks weird with a scroll bar only going up 3/4 of the page. I'm thinking that there has to be some kind of javascript or ajax script that help me out.

Thanx

[dru_nasty]

First y not make the iframe a larger width/height so you dont need scrollbars and set scrolling="no".
Beyond that you could use ajax to request pages in your content area and just leave the flash header alone. Don't ask me how though :)

[foodpk]

You basically have three choices.
Use iframes Use AJAX Have the whole site in flash

But the thing is, if you use any of those to display all your content, search engines won't be able to read your site. So that's the problem with using complex flash headers, you have to ask yourself if you'd rather have a nice intro animation in your flash header or have your site be displayed in search engines.

[dru_nasty]

But the thing is, if you use any of those to display all your content, search engines won't be able to read your site. So that's the problem with using complex flash headers, you have to ask yourself if you'd rather have a nice intro animation in your flash header or have your site be displayed in search engines.

Not necessarily, if you use the javascript swfobject to embed your flash it can be completely search engine friendly ;)

[bigbstanley]

yeah, I'm using swfobject as well. works awesome. after researching forever I've found nothing relatively easy to do this. Thanx for the help though.

[CyanBlue]

Not necessarily, if you use the javascript swfobject to embed your flash it can be completely search engine friendly ;)
Just to clarify abit... You can get the Flash site indexed by the search engine spiders if you use SWFObject, but SWFObject won't automatically give you an ability to do the deep linking... Some day... Some day... Gosh... :(

[Digitalosophy]

Does anyone know of a way to have a flash header on a web page and only change the content part of the page while keeping the flash from reloading. I've tried using iframes however it just looks weird with a scroll bar only going up 3/4 of the page. I'm thinking that there has to be some kind of javascript or ajax script that help me out.

Thanx

You could pass a query to flash letting it know at what frame to start on each page. The flash header would reload but at least you could start it where you want.

[dalewb]

Not necessarily, if you use the javascript swfobject to embed your flash it can be completely search engine friendly ;)

Could someone please tell me how to implement this in Dreamweaver 8? My company has me inserting a new Flash banner/button nav bar in all the pages of its website and they use Dreamweaver to manage the site. I edit the template pages and the changes are (supposedly) reflected in the html pages.
I'll attempt to just edit the HTML code directly, first. If there is a better way, please let me know.
Edit:
For anyone interested, there is a Dreamweaver extension for $15 at http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=3DA1E.

[dru_nasty]

Here's everything you need to know on it ;) clickity (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/)