As for AS3, you’re heading into a wonderful new arena. Transitioning from AS2 to AS3 can seem like a bit of a hassle, since AS3 is a little less forgiving and “forces” you to write things a certain way, but one you transition, you’ll never look back. As for words of advice, I would strongly advise getting comfortable with building, reusing, and extending classes if you’re not already doing so. O’Reilly’s Essential Actionscript 3.0 is a good book for getting a solid footing in AS3. I’d also recommend browsing around NetTuts+ and ActiveDen’s Tumblog for bits of advice, tutorials, and so on.

And thanks for the kind words on the portfolio! It’s woefully out of date now — I have to get on posting some more recent work, but I’m too busy to be working on my own site

I look forward to seeing more of your work — keep me posted!

It makes complete sense now, I have implemented this for the whole website. After a week of testing it looks good so im going to give it a month to see if it makes a difference to the search engines in terms of them finding the content.

I have had a look at your portfolio it is fantastic! Very inspiring! Hopefully one day my work can get to that standard. Im learning as3 at the moment, do you have any advice or words of wisdom?

Cheers Eric

I’m sorry – I had my stuff backwards! It appears that your Flash is set up to process SWFAddress without the leading “/”. The proper format for a SWFAddress URL should be “http://brooke-products.com/#/paMixer” where the “#” is surrounded by ‘/’ characters. This ensures that the URL has proper divisions between all content. So you should revise your Flash so that it expects the “/” before all site sections. Once that’s done, you should be good. I’ve revised my code above to make this clearer.

As for linking to the HTML from the flash movie, you don’t need to. In essence, your paMixer page and your index page will host the exact same Flash file, only the initial page that’s loaded will be different. Since they’re the exact same Flash files, you don’t need to load up any additional HTML. Does that make sense?

How do i get rid of the (/)? The other question is i understand the logic of creating html pages for each section of the flash site, but how do i get to link to the html from the flash movie, e.g. index.html to paMixer.html. Im using frame labels to link to each section of the movie?

Thank you Eric.

Thanks for the links! I see what’s happening: On your paMixer.html page, you’re setting the value to “#/paMixer” — it should be set to “#paMixer” (no ‘/’). With that change, the page works fine!

I have set the setValue command and it does change from section to section. I was just trying to replicate your example of creating a page for each section.

If you got to brooke-products.com you will see it working but if you go to brooke-products.com/paMixer.html It doesnt go to the right section.

Thanks for your help.

Rock on!

–eric

Thanks for your solution.

I like your idea of creating an html page for each section of the flash site so that google can fetch the info that is in html.

I have enabled swfaddress on my project which works fine, but when i create a html file for each section and add SWFAddress.setValue(“someValue”); to the swfobject section of the html file, it doesnt go to the relevant section it always goes to the homepage frame.

Do you know what it is i could be missing? Do you set up a folder structure for each html file?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

Will help in all my future projects, much appreciated!