Craig Campbell’s School of Flash

Can’t find the answers to your Flash questions? Can’t figure out why you can’t get your Flash files to work, even though you followed all the directions in the School of Flash tutorials? Post your question on the School of Flash Forum to see if somebody else has the answers that you so desperately seek.

So drop by the forums, register, create your first post, and then drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Have you ever tried going through the purchase of your first house and the birth of your first child within the same month? If so, then you’ve probably discovered that’s it’s a very stressful, very time-consuming process. My wife is currently pregnant with our first child, and her due date is August 30th. On top of that, we’re closing on our first home on August 1st.

Needless to say, I’m a little swamped at the moment.

So let me say first of all that I’m sorry for not pounding out the tutorials as quickly as I used to. Hopefully, after things have settled down a little, I’ll be able to start posting again with some frequency, but for now, I’m looking for volunteers.

If anybody wants to try their hand at writing Flash tutorials, news stories, etc. for School of Flash, then drop me a line and let me know. These tutorials can be anywhere from introductory-level basics to uber-advanced lessons. SchoolofFlash.com sees over 35,000 pageviews per month, so this is a great way to gain some exposure and get some traffic to your own site. So, if you’re interested, or if you’re interested in working together in any other capacity, let me know!

For years, the advice has always been that if you want good search engine results, then you don’t want to create your website entirely with Flash, because search engines have no way of effectively indexing swf files. Well, all of that is about to change.

Adobe just announced that they are teaming up with Google and Yahoo in order to address this issue. Adobe has supplied these search industry leaders with technology that will allow them to index swf files in a way that has never been possible before. In fact, Google has already started implementing this technology, and as I understand it, Yahoo won’t be too far behind.

“But wait,” you say. “I thought search engines already had a way to index swf files.”

Well, you’re right, but up until now, they could only index the static information and static links within your swf file. With this new technology, even the dynamic content of your Flash files will be open to search engine indexing, making it infinitely more possible for your all-Flash website to achieve top rankings in search engine results.