I need to make a website and liked some of flashden's templates. It is mostly flash and xml files. I need to modify them quite a bit, which programs do I need to do so. Flash professional, dreamweaver? Anything else. If I have more specific questions I will post here. Thanks. For instance, what If I wan to merge an element from one template into another, say an mp3 playlist that looks good into a template that doesnt have one. Do I modify the html file, xml file, or insert flash into website via dreamweaver etc...
My question would be why do you want to piss away accessibility, speed, functionality and usability on a bunch of flashtard bull? Just scrambling for the bleeding edge of 2001 web development practices? Intentionally want people to NOT want to use your sites? Don't actually have content of value and just looking to dump a can of shellac on a pile? Seriously -- WHY?!? Of course, shoe-horning content into crappy off the shelf templates is a strike against such nonsense as well.
The website Im making is to host and sell my albums and mp3 singles. As well as presets for virtual synthesizers. Do you have a better option that using flashden websites. They were the best I've come across and load fast unless your still running win98 or something. You didn'nt answer any of my questions and just insulted, is this how it is on this site?
No, it is not. Flash websites were popular 11 - 13 years ago but not any more. Flash itself is falling out of favor as it is proprietary and most of the technologies on the web are open source. Not to mention that they are resource intensive and take time to download. They are terrible for usability, even if they look pretty. I searched for Flashden, found a site that may be it and it was nothing more than a referral landing page. Nobody uses Flash for websites any more. Flash is falling out of favor for videos even as it is being replaced my mp4 capabilities built into browsers. Word to the wise is to forget using Flash for your website.
I'm not even sure if its flash. There are alot of .swf files and .flv files. Is this the video files you are talking about. If flash is no good what are the alternatives then?
One of the sites in question is called Supernova. You can google flashden supernova template for preview and info. I can seem to posts links of it
Laughably, Googling for "Flashden supernova template" the first search result is this thread, and the other four links are nothing more than creepy untrustworthy filesharing websites -- doesn't speak well of it. Honestly every single Google and DDG result for "flashden" sets my scammy sense tingling. Sorry if my post offended -- it's what I do. Billzo explained it a bit better -- you are asking about decade and a half out of date practices and decade out of style methods for building a website; sites built with such methods being inaccessible train wrecks of how NOT to build a website, filled with "gee ain't it neat" flashtardery -- which today the people building the same things with CSS3, HTML 5 and the new JavaScript don't seem to realize is the same type of "gee ain't it neat' BULL used by people who don't actually have content of value, and to be brutally frank likely have no damned business making websites in the first place. Your questions on the whole show that you don't know enough HTML to be building a website -- which is why the first place I'd suggest you start is to actually learn what HTML is, what it is for, and how to use it properly. Content of value, marked up semantically, with content and semantics dictating layout. Anything else is sleazy scam artist bull -- see 99.999% of the garbage at whorehouses like ThemeForest or TemplateMonster that amounts to little more than nube predation. Shoe-horning content into a pre-built template is NOT how to create a useful accessible website, no matter how many arsty fartsy PSD jockeys and sleazeball snake oil doctors tell you otherwise. ... and mixing flash into that? A dozen times worse. Again, sorry if that seem harsh, but the TRUTH often is.
You have your answer. Mobile devices do not support Flash. Why would you want to build a website that 40% or more of your visitors cannot view? I never liked Flash websites in 2002 and thankfully they are mostly gone. Give it up on the Flash and get yourself a book on HTML and CSS. If you need something quick and cannot invest the time to learn, take a look at Wordpress and some free themes and plugins and maybe you can achieve some of what you want. Being a newbie, you want to start off on the right foot and Flash is not it.
I released a website a few years ago in html using dreamweaver wysiwyg. I'm a little familar with that process. I searched google for the keywords i wrote and it was the second result. the exact header title for the page is "Flash - Advanced XML Website | ActiveDen". Can someone please show me an example using 'better' more friendly code that is somewhat like that site. I will look more into HTML 5 and CSS3. I thank you guys for your comments and am willing to learn from you guys and try out smarter ideas that you guys are recommending. Thanks again and sorry for such complete newbie ideas.
With more familiarity you will realize why a Flash website is a bad idea and that they fell out of fashion long ago. I do not browse the web with Flash enabled and millions of other people do not either. Just looking at the features page: activeden.net/item/advanced-xml-website/20118 Vertical accordion, slide shows, picture and video galleries, and such can be accomplished using Javascript or, more specifically, jQuery. Just do some searching and don't have a one-track mind. You do not have to replicate everything in the Flash template to have a functional, usable website.
Finally looking at the site in question (odd that result does NOT come up here in DDG or Google) you REALLY want THAT? It's like a combination of every "how not to make a website" list of the past decade and a half all rolled into one. Gooftard animated bull, auto-playing music, fixed metric fonts... I really wonder just what the **** is in the kool aid that would make anyone want a website like that, unless again they're out to polish a turd from a complete lack of "content of value". There is NOTHING being done with that flashden crap that I would EVER even come CLOSE to suggesting you try to do on a website. Though to be fair, I'd say the same of 90%+ of the crap people vomit up with the fat bloated mouth-breathingly stupid train wreck of ineptitude known as dreamweaver so... Oh yeah, because throwing idiotic scripttard bullshit at a website to replicate all the things wrong with flashtard bullshit is SO the right answer. *** SIGH *** You people just WANT crappy slow loading inaccessible painful to navigate websites, don't you?
No. I hate jQuery (though it has its place at times). I was just saying that some of the features in the Flash example could be accomplished using other means based on the description given. A few years ago when I was using an older computer, jQuery would freeze my browser. That was before CSS animations came into favor and some people were using jQuery for all these silly little animations. I visited a blog once and every icon or little thing on the page moved, rolled, or vibrated when you moused-over it. It was ridiculous. I hate jQuery animations and I hate infinite scrolling even more. I bookmarked an example of a horrific web page that has infinite scrolling with boxes that kind of swing out toward you when you scroll down. It is a perfect example of what not to do. I will have to find it. Maybe someone should start a thread of horrible jQuery sites.