Flash website with WordPress back-end

Update: I’ve long since abandoned the idea and HTML5 is the way to go!.

(I’ve left this post up for reference)

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! – Never going to happen!

Of course, I’ll be blogging the progress!