# Recipe for an excellent, functional Flash/HTML portfolio site

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recipe-for-an-excellent-functional-flash-html-portfolio-site/207746>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recipe-for-an-excellent-functional-flash-html-portfolio-site/207746 "2006-11-21T06:12:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![samsoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@samsoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/samsoner)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recipe-for-an-excellent-functional-flash-html-portfolio-site/207746/1 "2006-11-21T06:12:46Z")

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HI!

Just wanted a reminder on what backend and front-end components are **mandatory** for a successful Flash/HTML portfolio site. Anyone can put their resume on the site, and links to few websites they’ve done but I need to go beyond this basic approach. My old flash portfolio site (made 5 years ago) was a Flash movie embedded in a html container and it had links to other sites…there was no CSS or XHTML at all.

Also, I needed to find a way to learn AJAX/Ruby, so I thought maybe I could do that by applying it to the portfolio website. For those who have used AJAX/Ruby alongside with Flash, HTML, and CSS, how has it benefited your portfolio sites? Thanks.