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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	That's cool. There's nothing wrong with building a website for the sake of learning how to do it. You won't learn if you don't try. But it helps to know what your working towards or you'll never have a finishing point and the site will always kinda feel unfinished. -- I'm speaking form experience on this one. =) As for the flash vs HTML thing, there is a way you can provide both in the one page, you just have to structure you mark-up correctly and the flash will display for users with flash or alternative HTML will display if there is no flash support. Nip over to [url=http://www.alistapart.com]www.alistapart.com[/url] and flip through their flash section looking for the "Flash Satay" article. It explains an XHTML validating way of embedding flash which also provided a means of graceful degradation to alternative HTML content you put inside the <object? tag you use to insert the flash movie. I'm doing a similar thing on my personal website and it works perfectly all the way back to Netscape 1.0 Example (cut-n-paste from my offline site that's still in the works): <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre> <object id="thecoffeeboy_header_main" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="thecoffeeboy_header_main.swf" width="738" height="142"> <param name="movie" value="thecoffeeboy_header_main.swf" /> <param name="menu" value="false" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="scale" value="noscale" /> <div id="header_no_flash"> <p>[Home Link]</p> <p>[Coffee Image]</p> <div id="menu"> <span id="menu_links"><a href="/weblog/">weblog</a> Loading...
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