Can I change my flash website to HTML 5 easily? How?

[austinphoto]

<p>My website has been flash website, but flash seems to be no longer supported by many portable items. I would like to change it to be able to show on all devices. I like the flash and would like to keep the design and layout as well as all functionality the same.<br>

Is there an easy way to do this?<br>

<a href="http://www.greatlab.com">www.greatlab.com</a></p>

[brian_lau]

<p>Unfortunately Apple helped kill Flash. At the same time, Flash was flawed functionally as it didn't work very well with search engines. You need to get the original files and recode the website. Man, I miss Flash websites. They're so much more interesting than html ones.. even the animated html ones.</p>

[chrisnielsen]

<p>It wasn't Apple that killed Flash, Brian. At the time the iPhone was released the most common complaint was 'doesn't run Flash'. Well guess what, no other mobile devices managed to run it very well and eventually Adobe itself killed Flash off for mobile platforms.</p>

<p>And, ewww, that site has auto playing music. That's not nice.</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>What's that old saying ... "How can I miss you if you won't go away?" <br /><br />I will <em>not</em> miss Flash when it finally is, mercifully, dead and gone. It was awful for performance, bandwidth, searchability, caching, security (!!!), maintainability, platform agnosticism, mobile devices, battery life, people with disabilities, and more. Good riddance! HTML5 is a far more sensible approach, and even Adobe says so.<br /><br />Alas, Abe, you really are better off re-tooling the site from scratch with more up to date standards, and just re-using your graphic resources in the new format. You might looking into the utilities from Adobe that are aimed at exporting Flash content as HTML5.<br /><br />If you know someone who has the Flash CS6 tools, Adobe has provided a <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flash-to-html5.html"><strong>free toolkit</strong></a> that will translate that content to JS-based output, friendly to HTML5.</p>

[frank_skomial]

<p>Learn how to implement websites from the www authority, using their free tutorials, as in:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/">http://www.w3schools.com/</a></p>

<p>This will give you some hands on experience and little bit of the theory behind it.</p>

<p>You need to separate your code into Presentation Layer, Structural Layer, and Behavioral Layer.</p>

<p>Single compound book on the subject is the Web Design in a Nutshell, published by O'Reilly. Once you work through this book, you could use the many small single subject/technology Pocket Reference books, also from O'Reilly.</p>

<p>Alternative is to get a pile of huge books on separate subject technologies.</p>

<p>If you have Microsoft Visual Studio, the large number of tutorials there will tech you web design, conforming to latest standards, using Microsoft technology.</p>

<p>Dreamweaver from Macromedia, purchased by Adobe, is available separately or as a package, perhaps best suitable for Unix/Linux based web servers, like Apache.</p>

<p>MySQL was(is?) free to use database that gained popularity. For Microsoft Internet server, a single file embedded database works well to some limitations, or you could use any database from any source.</p>

[Spearhead]

<p>It doesn't look like Abe is a coder, so learning about all the stuff Frank is talking about will be wasted.</p>

<p>If you want tools for creating your html5 photography site, check out <a href="http://theturninggate.net/">The Turning Gate</a>. They have a variety of products that let you easily crank it out.</p>

<p>Also, you should lose the music and update your copyright info. Old dates on the copyright make people wonder if you are still in business.</p>

[brian_lau]

<p>haha. I meant that I miss Flash for desktops. The really well done sites were efficiently made. I got sick of the music loops too. I stopped those real quick. Flash sites were better for promotional use. I don't recall any content based flash websites.</p>