Converting My Website From Flash To HTML5

Hello:

I own a website on which I sell my music instrumentals.

The site is openmindsent.com

We are interested in converting the existing flash player which plays our music to HTML5, so that our instrumentals can be played on mobile devices.

We are not sure if we will need to hire somebody, or if it is something we can try to do ourselves. We have almost no coding knowledge, but we have some experience with site design.

Is this a very involved process? Or is it something that we could do ourselves?


Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Hi

Let me give you my advice. If you are converting from a flash-based website it's probably best that you look at a CMS rather than a static HTML5 website. If you don't have any coding knowledge developing your website on a content management system such as WordPress will give you the freedom to make changes yourself and be able to update the website itself.

If you selling music online a shopping cart or e-commerce platform such as Magento is also a wise investment.

 

Thanks very much for the input!

The site has already been built and finished for over 5 years, so unfortunately it will need to remain as a static HTML website.

We just need to convert the music player to HTML5 so that customers may listen to our beats on their mobile devices.

As you stated, I do wish at this point that the site would have been created as a Wordpress site, because I am very familiar with WP and I've created 5 or more sites with this platform.

Thanks again, and if you or anyone else can tell me the process for converting from Flash to HTML5 on an already-developed HTML website, it'd be greatly appreciated.

 

Yeah - I would build in WordPress - There are many themes and frameworks available. HTML5 will allow you to embed media files really easily - JPLayer is a good option for streaming music and has support for playlists, videos, etc.

 

Again, the site has been finished for 5 years and I'm not going to convert it to Wordpress.

My question, for the third time, is: What is the process of converting the music player of an Already Created HTML Site from Flash to HTML5?

The site is OpenMindsEnt.com.

Thanks

 

FIVE years? Looks more like fifteen... To the point it ALL needs to be thrown out and started over from scratch as inaccessible garbage featuring the trifecta of /FAIL/ at design known as fixed width, fixed metric (px) fonts, and illegible color contrasts; much less the over the top code bloat.

Though yeah, tell the turdpress re-re's where to shove it -- that bloated pile of manure is not the answer either.

To convert JUST the music content you'll first need to convert it into TWO different codecs + containers to even have a chance of it playing. You'll need them in both MP3 and OGG ... MP3 for 90% of the world, OGG for Opera and Firefox on non windows OS.

From there you just need the proper markup to embed the audio:

<audio controls>
  <source src="audio/test.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
  <source src="audio/test.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
  <p>Fallback markup should go here -- I'd consider putting the flash OBJECT inside AUDIO as the fallback</p>
</audio>

Code (markup):

That's the markup -- you just need the files converted to the needed formats -- of course that's assuming you want browser controls instead of something customized -- and of course if you care about trying to block people from downloading the content there's no DRM as yet. (the module for it is in the works but it's buggy/unreliable and WAY too easy to slap aside -- there's a reason Netflix uses silverlight and Hulu still uses flash, pretty much saying **** apple mobile users)

Really unless you're going to rewrite the entire site from scratch (which it DESPERATELY NEEDS!!!) I'd just stick with the flash -- it will generally work for Android users anyhow, only people who can't access flash are typically the iTards iWith iThier iDevices, entirely because crApple still has sour grapes over QuickTime having lost the media wars of the late '90's and generally treats it's users like the ignorant halfwit sheep they really are. Gotta love it when a company practices vendor lock in, and people are DUMB ENOUGH to praise them for it.

Though... I don't even see functioning flash on that page or anything I try to access... Lemme guess, broken script-tard garbage too?

 

Thanks very much for the tactful response. I appreciate your honesty. And thanks for the coding help. Definitely helped to clear some things up.

Unfortunately we need to roll with this design for right now, as we are gathering funds and resources to fix the issues you mentioned.

I was curious about a couple of things you mentioned:

Could you elaborate on this: "Though... I don't even see functioning flash on that page or anything I try to access... Lemme guess, broken script-tard garbage too?"

Also, I have an Android device, and am unable to play the audio files on the site. Same with pretty much every other Android user I've talked to. Is this because of the disfunctional Flash you mention?

Thanks again in advance.