Mon, 2010-09-06 21:01
Hey all,
Can you use flash as a background for a div with text written over it? I originally created a flash graphic with text on a webpage I was trying to design. You can see the page here: www.dragora.com/newindex1.asp (The part that says residential services, business services, etc). Despite what Google says about indexing flash, I've heard a lot of people say that it doesn't really work that well. I tried exporting my flash grapic into AI and the color changes. I've tried exporting it into Photoshop and the size changes. It would be easier for me to just create new flash files, cut the image up and put text on top of the flash for SEO purposes. Is this possible and if so how would I do it?
Mark
Tue, 2010-09-07 02:06
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Caveat - I strongly dislike
Caveat - I strongly dislike Flash, as it has so many drawbacks, but even I will use it now and then, and will not debate its merits here.
If I were trying this, I would try what I do to make dropdown menus work when they drop over some Flash. I'd make sure to use wmode=transparent on the embedded flash code inside a DIV. Then I would absolutely position another DIV or element somewhere inside the DIV containing the Flash. Some playing with z-index might be needed to get it to appear. That might work.
Yet, if I were a Flash developer, I reckon it would easy enough to stick a transparent layer with some text or whatever in it, and have it float over the other stuff. And for SEO, regular text could be discreetly placed elsewhere, even moved off the page with CSS.
Good luck, Dave