I’ve been making html-based websites with embedded flash content (animated banners) for years. I have a client who is asking for an all-Flash website.
Let me just say that I am aware of the controversy over SEO and Flash, and the various workarounds to the whole search engine issue. My client knows this is what he wants, so I have created something that he is very pleased with. Except one thing…
Unfortunately, he also wants a “Latest News” feature on his website, that he could update all by himself. I figured the best thing was to create a blog for him that is tailored to look identical to all of the other flash “pages”. Unfortunately, when someone attempts to return from the blog to the website, they go back to the beginning of the intro animation, which leads to the home page. It would be great if the user could go back directly to the last page they were on within the flash-based website.
Can I do this?
Another idea I had was to somehow embed the blog data within the flash .swf somehow, but this is getting a little over my head. I am using blogger.com for the blog.
Another idea would be to create a separate .swf for each and every page within the site, but then there would be these 2-second loading pauses for each page (I like it all to be preloaded.).
Please give me some help here.
Ken
