Flash website into HTML?

[Caryn1980]

I have created a full flash website. I have a domain name and a server through ftp. I know absolutely NOTHING about HTML or Javascript. The problem I'm having is that I want to make my site accessible from sites that I have to link to in order for them to link to me, as well as search engines. I now see that isn't possible through flash. So I did some searching and found this tutorial and thought it would help: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/publish.htm
Problem is, when I publish an HTML and then open it in TextEdit, the file is blank. So I can't continue with the tutorial.

Am I going about this all wrong? Should I create an HTML version of my site? If so, how in the world do I do that? Any help is appreciated.

[talonofdarkness]

You shouldnt need to create a html version of your site and you can have links in flash which link to other websites.

All you do is in the location put "http://www.thewebsitename.ext" where ext = .com, .co.uk, .org, etc.

Simple enough.

[Caryn1980]

You shouldnt need to create a html version of your site and you can have links in flash which link to other websites.

All you do is in the location put "http://www.thewebsitename.ext" where ext = .com, .co.uk, .org, etc.

Simple enough.

Well that's what I thought. When I did that, the website I was linking to said they couldn't detect it. Through research on this site I've found that "spyders" don't recognize certain things in the flash file. So I'm trying to figure out how to compensate for that.

[talonofdarkness]

You could use meta tags inside the html document. I am not very experienced with that. But you if say for google, it looks at the links coming into ur site. So as long as the links are readable on the other websites which are linking to u, thats all that matters really.

... i think :S feeling a bit zombified atm lol

[Caryn1980]

Yes, I'd like to do that.
But you are thinking a step ahead. What html document? I don't have one and don't know how to create one. That's where my problem is.

[Darren E]

A little lesson in meta tags. I know where you are coming from- having to learn something new all over again.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931

[Caryn1980]

That article is excellent. Thank you.
I still don't understand WHERE I put them though.

[BradLee]

Shouldn't your flash websites' swf file be embedded in an html page? I doubt that your webpage is just an swf file. There should be at least one html file for your website. Your meta-tags should go there.

[joran420]

just go to into the flash IDE open the FLA goto file>publish

and you should have an html file with your SWF embedded embeded in it that has the same name as your fla
(ie mynew.fla publishes to mynew.html)