Publishing Flash Files to the Internet

Once you have created a Flash movie, you may want to publish it on the Internet so that others may see your work online. There are a couple steps for accomplishing this. In order to publish it to the web, you must embed your Flash animation in an HTML document. Flash has an automatic HTML generation function.

1. First, you will need to check the Publish Settings, which is accessed by going to File > Publish Settings.

Publish Settings window to create an HTML file with your Flash movie.

2. Make sure the HTML checkbox and the Flash checkbox are checked and fill in the file names you want to give to the documents. Click the yellow folder icons next to the HTML and Flash types to select the folder to which you want to save the files. Click Publish, and then click OK.

3. In your computer’s file browser (e.g. Windows Explorer or Mac Finder), locate the files that Flash output. Double click the HTML file to see your movie play in a browser.

4. Finally, if you want to put your movie online, you will need to transfer this HTML file and the SWF file to a web server and have both of them located in the same directory.