having a website displaying 2 options

kronoSX

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i am new to this flash thing right.
now i have my website www.dbm8.co.za
how can i have a index.html page showing first a static page giving 2 links to the non flash site or the flash site,The web browser must choose which one he want to see:confused:
 

.Froot.

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easy. your index.html has two links: "indexnf.html" and "indexf.html" which contains the flash site. But it is the user's choice whether he/she wishes to view the flash version or the non flash version. Otherwise what you can do is to run a script checking for flash compatibility and then redirecting to a non-flash version if incompatible. The problem, however, is that users such as 3G users and dial-up users will wish to view the html version due to speed issues (dial-up) and space issues (3G).
 

kronoSX

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easy. your index.html has two links: "indexnf.html" and "indexf.html" which contains the flash site. But it is the user's choice whether he/she wishes to view the flash version or the non flash version. Otherwise what you can do is to run a script checking for flash compatibility and then redirecting to a non-flash version if incompatible. The problem, however, is that users such as 3G users and dial-up users will wish to view the html version due to speed issues (dial-up) and space issues (3G).

can you step by step show me with filezilla how to do this.
Or any way you prefer,i have all the web tools from macromedia:D
 

kronoSX

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easy. your index.html has two links: "indexnf.html" and "indexf.html" which contains the flash site. But it is the user's choice whether he/she wishes to view the flash version or the non flash version. Otherwise what you can do is to run a script checking for flash compatibility and then redirecting to a non-flash version if incompatible. The problem, however, is that users such as 3G users and dial-up users will wish to view the html version due to speed issues (dial-up) and space issues (3G).

what do you mean by space issue..like cache:confused:
 

.Froot.

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easy. your index.html has two links: "indexnf.html" and "indexf.html" which contains the flash site. But it is the user's choice whether he/she wishes to view the flash version or the non flash version. Otherwise what you can do is to run a script checking for flash compatibility and then redirecting to a non-flash version if incompatible. The problem, however, is that users such as 3G users and dial-up users will wish to view the html version due to speed issues (dial-up) and space issues (3G).

Check my post, and read carefully. 3G users pay a lot more than us ADSL users for data and as such are usually careful about the amount of data transferred (flash can get pretty big), whilst DIAL-UP users have speed issues.
 

.Froot.

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I would help you if I did flash. My do php developing and as such the honours of helping you flash will need to go to someone more experienced in flashing
 

kronoSX

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I would help you if I did flash. My do php developing and as such the honours of helping you flash will need to go to someone more experienced in flashing

like those subway guys:D
 

kronoSX

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thanks for the advice earlier on...got to google now and use bandwidth for video tutorials..fkit
 

.Froot.

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either that, or make use of local mirrors (a little faster than international downloads) and download everything you want. http://mirror.ac.za, http:ftp.up.ac.za, others too
 
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