After doing some research on google, i think it maybe possible to do the whole new digiwebbs site design using flash. I’m going to create a whole website in flash and use WordPress as the back-end for my articles/blog posts. I’m going to attempt this using Tim Wilson’s script PressConnect:
PressConnect is a PHP Script I have developed to connect my Flash Website to my WordPress Content.
The Code interrogates the Database and Returns Posts, Pages, Categories, and Creates Menus in XML
Just Updated with Better Code and New Functions.
New: I have release the .fla file my website is based on, it is available for purchase
more info on the PressConnect script.
Next Problem: Search Engine Optimising (SEO) the Flash Site
The next challenge with Flash based websites is SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), which will be tricky, because the site will be a .swf file, which according to some sources can be ‘read’ by google, others say it can’t be read by google. My intention is to have the content that can be indexed by google in one div (content generated by PHP), but if the browser supports it, then the flash content of the site will be displayed. This would be achieved with some javascript (ugh!), although there is a handy google tool: SWFObject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content, which utilizes one small JavaScript file.
So in the next few weeks, digiwebbs, hopefully will be a working Flash Website with a WordPress back-end, serving all the blog posts,articles and pages!
Of couese, i’ll be blogging the progress!
I’m already opened PressConnect and I’m interested too…
Thanx for your info….
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..
Good site I \”Stumbledupon\” it today and gave it a stumble for you.. looking forward to seeing what else you have..later
anybody here know of a good site to find more info on Php Script For A Site Search On My Website? I\’ve got this site bookmarked and im gonna keep checking it out, but i still would like to find a site that covers Php Script For A Site Search On My Website a little more thoroughly..thanks
Any progress on this? I’d like to know more about what you’re planning on doing for your SEO workaround, seeing as I’ve been meandering about with pressconnect for a while now and would like to see someone else’s implentation before committing to my own.
Hi K, erm progress at the moment is a little slow – i’ve put this project on hold while i complete my final year at uni. just soo much work to do on my dissertaion project! but if i have any spare time during the christmas holidays i’ll see what i can do. For SEO the flash, i’ll use javascript to write the flash site, but since search engines suposidly can’t read the flash file, i’ll just have the php echo the content using in a basic wordpress theme, so people without flash, and search engines can ‘read’ the content of the site…