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Flash Websites and Search Engine Spiders

Liza Potter wrote:
Flash Websites and Search Engine Spiders

A site built entirely with Flash suffers a great disadvantage because it lacks page structure to organize the content, internal linking, and unique page titles. One remedy is to create distinct HTML pages to represent each Flash "page," and install the Flash movie on each and every one of the HTML pages. When a visitor requests the page, they'll see Flash if they can handle it. Otherwise, a non-Flash visitor, such as a search engine, will be able to spider the site. If a user follows a search result onto one of the inner pages, they'll get the same Flash experience because the movie is available on every page. Another approach is to divide the Flash into pieces and put the relevant piece on each page.
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Combining Visual Site Designer and the HTML Editor

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Combining Visual Site Designer and the HTML Editor? Yes, you can!

I use VSD for setting up a site (it doesn't get any faster..), but sometimes I need the HTML editor to finetune the result, and I combine both programs. How? By setting the HTML editor as one of my preview browsers in the 'select preview browser' menu in VSD. Then, clicking on preview (after selecting the HTML editor as preview browser of course), VSD opens the HTML editor in HTML mode, showing the HTML code of the VSD page I am working on, previewing the page when I click on the preview tab of the HTML editor.... Smart, isn't it?

Of course, if you want to alter the code generated by VSD, it is best to do this after you've finished the VSD job completely, otherwise you have to do the HTML edit using this trick anew each time you change and save your VSD design. I use it for instance very often to edit or add something to the meta tags of the VSD generated code or remove the VSD comments....
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How does your page stand up to close inspection?

If you want a quick idea of how your web page stands up to close inspection use your short cut keyboard commands.
CTRL + to zoom in
CTRL - to zoom out

Want to see your page full screen?
F11 is the key to use. Just click on it again to bring your browser back to default viewing mode.

These commands work perfectly in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari and are especially useful for those who have visual problems. You might even suggest these keys on your web page as an accessibility tip.
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Been awhile since I helped out around here so...

Embedding Youtube video into your site without the annoying "Related items" links that normally appear when the video finishes playing...

Not sure if anyone has suggested this before but here is the code you need to plug into your html file, or your VSD html area to get rid of the items in question that Youtube tends to add. I created this for a series of videos I linked from Youtube to a client site awhile back. Took a little research and trial and error to figure it out too - lol...

<object style="height: 420px; width: 315px">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qV-DDztlp7o?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&fs=1&start=0&iv_l oad_policy=3&feature=player_embedded">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qV-DDztlp7o?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&fs=1&start=0&iv_l oad_policy=3&feature=player_embedded;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="420" height="315"></object>

Change the bold numbers to whatever your video proportions are, and the other bold info to the similar string of characters in your youtube video embed code. You just need that info only, not the whole embed code youtube will give you. For example - Youtube embed code from random video: http://youtu.be/krn4qX7kyTI <--- You just need the bold part here.
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Here's a site that has some free tutorial videos. I haven't gone through them much, just the basics to see if it would be helpful. This place is helpful for those that have no experience all the way to those that want to learn more about HTML5 and CSS3. It also has video courses for Javascript and an Intro to programming. Hope you find it useful.

And it's FREE! :) .. free is good! lol

http://teamtreehouse.com
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Jo Ann wrote:
Here's a site that has some free tutorial videos. I haven't gone through them much, just the basics to see if it would be helpful. This place is helpful for those that have no experience all the way to those that want to learn more about HTML5 and CSS3. It also has video courses for Javascript and an Intro to programming. Hope you find it useful.

And it's FREE! :) .. free is good! lol

http://teamtreehouse.com


The site says it's $49 per month!:o:(
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well then they went the way of the normal business cycle for a lot of internet sites, started out free and eventually started charging for their services. But... if you click the Brows Library link at the bottom of the page, you'll find lots of video tutorials there and you don't need to be logged in to watch them :)
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Jo Ann wrote:
well then they went the way of the normal business cycle for a lot of internet sites, started out free and eventually started charging for their services. But... if you click the Brows Library link at the bottom of the page, you'll find lots of video tutorials there and you don't need to be logged in to watch them :)
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I hope this goes to Jo Ann.
Did you do that full wonderful http://cattownrescue.org/ site using just VSD and Form Builder?
I used HTML Editor for my site that I need to rewrite and was thinking about using VSD. if you did yours with VSD, then I definitely will! I have already switched from OLD form builder to the new great one and rewritten my forms quite easily and nicely.
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Hiya Dick,

I'm an HTML Editor person myself too so that was done using HTML Editor and extra things like Form Builder. Glad you like it, thanks for the nice comments :)

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