Flash header animation and AJAX content

[boonier]

Hi

Not meaning to spam post, but I think I originally put this post in the wrong area...

I'm designing a site where in the header there is a flash animation that develops over a long period. Threfore, when the user navigates to another page the animation will refresh and the animation will not 'develop'. This is important  for my idea, in that it be more immersive experience for the user, due to the relative lack of content (for now!). Navigation is css based, not in the flash mov, so flash is purely eye candy.

How difficult would it be to implement AJAX into my templates? I envisage that it will only be updating the main content wrapper div....the content being the pages i create in the cms. I've searched around the forums and not been able to find a solution. I have had this idea working in a flat html page, but I have not experienced it on a dynamically generated page

I am not a php programmer, but a designer using html css and jscript on a daily basis..Any ideas would be much appreciated

many thanks

Si 

[SideshowBob]

Hi Simon,

I think a better way to solve this problem could be to make the flash movie remember it's position when the user leaves the page and  then restart at that position (or maybe a little bit before) when the new page loads.

This would avoid issues such as bookmark problems, search engine stuff and more.

Take a look at Flash Local Shared Objects (or Flash Cookies). Google is your friend here as always.

Bob

[boonier]

What a fab idea...I had thought of nasty javascript hacks before, but I didn't think of flash cookies. I'll check it out

Thanks Bob