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Welcome > Step3: Publishing HTML

When you are satisfied with the appearance of your intro it is time to publish it so that the animation can be used at your site. Flash publishes animation in files of .SWF format, which is not editable, and others will not be able to use your work. .SWF files are embedded in HTML pages much like .GIF or .JPEG files - with the help of special HTML tag. However, the syntax is more complex, hence this tag is also responsible for timely download of flash player if one is needed (see Introduction to Flash). To make things easy, Flash also exports a page with a snippet of animation embedding code you can cut and paste from the exported file and add to your page. The substeps provide more details:
  1. Make sure that File>Publish Settings are set up correctly: go to the Formats tab and check the Flash and HTML boxes. You will not need the others so uncheck them. Click OK.
  2. Select File>Publish and see the new files (.HTML and .SWF) created in the same folder as your .FLA file.
  3. Open the .HTML file in a text editor and copy the <OBJECT>?</ OBJECT> tag that may look like this:

Text like this taken from the exported file should appear in HTML code of your page where you want the animation to be played. .SWF file must also be present on server and available via the path specified in SRC attribute of EMBED tag.

This concludes the FlashIntro tutorial. However, there is much more to Flash animation than this. http://www.flashkit.com/ and http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/blueprint/ are some of the good places to start improving your skills.

     

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