Flash or HTML?
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- fusionpixel0
when done right you can update your site for years, take a look at http://www.joshuadavis.com/
- version30
learning xml in flash should definitely be a priority if you believe updating an html is faster than flash
done properly you should never have to open the fla again
- davi-t0
Depends on what field you are in basically.
Use Flash if ur in the design world. It's looks a ton better than HTML. Depends on how much creativity you want to put into it. A 30-second Splash screen without a skip button always looks great. Or you can be like me, just put a Flash COMING SOON page, you never have to update it!
If ur a coder or a blogger, use HTML. What good would a Flashy site be for someone who isn't in the design world trying to get coding work.
- fifty500
"A 30-second Splash screen without a skip button always looks great. Or you can be like me, just put a Flash COMING SOON page, you never have to update it!"
Oh God please no splash screens. I've already got a "coming soon" up there, and I don't want to leave it there for long.
- nburlington0
Flash/XML
- JOOST0
Think about search engines, I used to be 100% flash based but while other sites were adding pages full of ugly texts and I was making things look pretty: I lost traffic on those... Try to include html for your basic info... for example: the photos and graphics could show up in flash but make sure your client descriptions are in html, otherwise no engine will spider it.
- fifty500
or I could put the most important information in header tags and use CSS to render them invisible when viewing the site. That would keep them trackable with search engines, no?
- unfittoprint0
the more important is the structure of your new site and its content manipulation.
not flash/html
but databased/not databased
fast, form based updating
dynamically xml driven.
flash or html is just a question of 'skin'.
- Rand0
or stick it on your flash sniffer redirect page that nobody sees?
- jakeyj0
i tend to favor html. to me it seems easier to update.
html makes it searchable without having to hide content, which makes the load time greater, having to pull that extra code. if you've got a high traffic site, that can add up fairly quick.
easier to use with other designers, i'd say too. and if you're just using flash for nav/etc. js should be able to take care of it.
- flavorful0
unfittoprint, nicely said.
And, I've had "Coming Soon." on my site for I believe over 2 years - so if you can't decide do something... otherwise your actual work will eventually overtake your life robbing any free time for portfolio sites.
Which brings me back to unfitto's point.
- fifty500
I guess i'd better start learning dynamic content management.
- unfittoprint0
a small folio db driven folio just needs the following:
[ADMIN]
#1 a table for categories [and an optional for subcategories]
#2 a form with title,category [,sucategory], description... fields
plus another field for image / thumbnail upload#3 a php script to check file uploading, and update your images table
#4 another script to list your current data with and option to edit/delete them
[FOLIO]
#1 a php script to query your db by filtering a desired category [or subcategory ID]
#print or echo the results to flash or html
the first time you manage to have this type of content managment will also be the last time you'll have to do it.
- fifty500
got an example of one of those in use?
- unfittoprint0
Create dynamic sites with
PHP & MySQL
http://codewalkers.com/tutorialp…Storing Images in Database
http://codewalkers.com/tutorialp…and a link to a combo of apache+mysql+php
http://www.wampserver.com/
- Jaline0
haha, thanks fusion.
- Jaline0
Oh, and Ian was awesome enough to let me take and play around with his code. Very nice.
- fugged0
Depends on how you set up your flash content, but i agree, sometimes it takes longer to build/update a flash site than an html one.
If you go HTML, you might consider an AJAX type framework. Lots of nice js libraries already out there (sorry don't have any links). That's the way I'm leanin' for when I actually get motivated to do a new site.
- TechVector0
I say use Flash and XML, updating is a cinch via XML.
But what do I know, I'm just a caveman.
- fusionpixel0
Well i'm not HEAVY into Flash, and I'm no vector whiz, but I sure like the effects that you can do with Flash. Meh I'll figure something out. I'll weigh the pros and cons of both methods and see which one is best suited to the task.
fifty50
(Nov 3 05, 06:20)
--Well, with those comments I would just go HTML.