How to Build a Website in a Flash

By Bennett Gavrish

  • Overview

    In version CS3 or CS4 of the Adobe Flash software users can design different graphics and animation, and put their work online. Instead of using programming language like HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language and is used to design many websites, Flash users can build websites with more interactive features. Once published onto an active web server, sites built with Flash can be viewed on any web browser that has Adobe Flash Player installed on it.

    • Step 1

      Open the Adobe Flash application from the Start menu on a PC or from the Dock on a Mac.

    • Step 2

      Click on "File" in the top menu bar and select "New." Then choose "Flash File" from the list of document types and click "OK."

    • Step 3

      Select a pixel size for your new webpage from the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. By default, the Flash page will be 550 pixels by 400 pixels.

    • Step 4

      Choose a background color for your website from the toolbar on the left side of the screen.

    • Step 5

      Add desired animation, graphics, text and hyperlinks to the main page of the site by using the tools on the left side of the screen. The timeline above the layout area measures how long animations will last.

    • Step 6

      Click on "File" in the top menu bar and select "Publish Settings."

    • Step 7

      Check the boxes next to "Flash" and "HTML" in the pop-up window to export both a .swf and a .html file to your active web server. Click "OK" to save the settings.

    • Step 8

      Go to "File" in the top menu bar and select "Publish." The flash file will be saved to your web server and then exported as an HTML file that can be viewed with any web browser.
    • Skill: Moderate
    • Ingredients:
    • PC computer with Windows XP or Vista or Mac computer with Mac OS X 10.4 or later
    • Adobe Flash CS3 or CS4 software
    • Active web server

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