Using Flash in your HTML

• Edit your Publish settings for Flash SWFs and HTML to reflect how you want your Flash SWF to appear in your web page.
• Export your Flash movie as HTML.
• Locate your HTML file on your computer, right-click, and select "Open With".
• Choose either NotePad or another text editor.
• Copy the source code from the HTML file.
• Paste it into your web page's source code in the appropriate location where you want your SWF file to display.
• Edit the file path to reflect the location of the SWF file on your web server, and upload both your HTML and SWF file to the appropriate directories on your server. (Note: this also applies if you're using PHP, JSP, ASP, CGI, or other web page extensions.)

Your code should look something like this:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" id="Yourfilename" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Yourfilename.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#333399> <EMBED src="Yourfilename.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#333399 WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" NAME="Yourfilename" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> </OBJECT>

Most of this you don't need to touch, so don't worry about making sense of that. The italicized section sets the codebase for the version of Flash used, to check against to see if your user has that version. The rest has taglines to download the Flash player (if the user doesn't have it) and the parameters that you would need to edit--mainly, the line labeledEMBED src="Yourfilename.swf".

By default only the file name would be there, because Flash publishes the SWF and the HTML file in the same folder together with your FLA file. However, you may want to put your SWF files in a separate subfolder on your server, perhaps a folder labeled "flash"--in which instance you would edit the code to read EMBED src="flash/Yourfilename.swf".

Trust me, it's much simpler than it sounds. Give it a try and find out for yourself.