Firstly, a few questions on marketing here:

1. Is it common for English speakers to have Flash Player (8+) installed in their computers? I rarely see English sites with flash animation.
2. Do most English speakers hate websites with flash menus/ photo albums? (I am planning to make my photo album a flash.)


Now here's my problem:

1. What is the html code for inserting flash onto a FrontPage website? (I am not that good with IT, forgive me that my info is out of date.)
2. Do I need to upload the whole file of the Flash?
3. Do I upload it WITH the flash file, or open the file then upload all it's contents without the file?


Another marketing based question:
1. Do most English speakers hate framing? I hardly see any sites using frames that are English.
2. What do you think of Iframe?
3. Background Music?
4. Scroll sideways?
5. Do you prefer a thin, long website, or a wide website that does not need a lot of scrolling?

Alot of English sites have flash. Ever heard of Youtube? Alot of people have flash installed, but there are alot of people that don't. If you plan on making any part of your site have Flash, make sure you have an alternative that doesn't use flash.


I'm not really sure what you're asking with the second and third question, but I googled "insterting flash into front page" you should do the same.


I personally as a designer hate frames, whether it's normal frames or iFrames. There are SOMETIMES a use for frames, but normally nothing you can't do with a php include and make your site look better in the process.

Background Music is normally a big no no. If you want music I suggest having a very visible option to turn it off. Or to be really kind, don't make it start playing until the user hits play.

Scrolling sideways is probably the most annoying thing to me, I personally hate hate hate sideways scrolling sites. It breaks routine (which sometimes can be good) but when I have to do something completely different than I'm used to (scrolling down with my mouse wheel) I get irritated. I don't stay long on sites that scroll sideways.

I much prefer a thin, long website.

thanks for the informations !

Thank you for such a detailed and useful answer.

Would you mind me asking some more?

In the case of not using frames, how do you update the menu of you site?
Do you edit every single page your have?

1. No clue how Frontpage does there stuff.
2 and 3. If you created the flash, then in order to insert it you have to go to file, publish (compiles the document). That will create a .swf file which is the file that you need to insert. You cannot insert a Flash Document into a webpage.



1. I used to use frames, but they arent friendly with search browsers.
2. I hate Iframe (don't know why)
3. People sometimes get pissed off
4. Amazingly annoying. Try to stick with vertical scrolling simply because people generally use the scroller on their mouses these days to scroll, and I have yet to see any mouses that let you side scroll.
5. I prefer wide websites that doesnt need alot of scrolling, but doesnt scroll horizontally.



This is something that I had to learn early, and I'm sure alot of the community helpers remember helping me with this sort of thing. First of all, if I'm way off base here, leave a link to your site for us.
Anywho, I learned the importance of SSI (server side includes) very early on if you have a website with several pages. Zymic only supports php SSI (which I have reluctantly learned to accept) which means all of your sites have to be using the extension .php for it to work. What SSI does is lets you basically insert something that you want on all of your sites (like the menu) and edit that item on all of those sites by editing only one document. I'm sure someone can explain in dept with how to use it if you want to try that out.

SSI sounds like a very good idea.
But I don't know any .php
I only know how to use FrontPage.
Sorry, I'm not a professional like you all are...

Trust me alot of people here aren't professional, me included. There are some, Bread for instance is (i think) a php professional. He won't admit it though

php is not that hard to learn, especially if you just read tutorials on the net.

One thing I would do is step away from frontpage. It (and dreamweaver) tend to add a lot of useless code in your html files. If you could code your site from scratch you would have alot nicer looking code and probably alot less problems. Plus if your going to want to start using php I don't know how easy that is to do in Frontpage. (I'm sure it's possible, just I don't use frontpage.)


I have a Logitech LX7 that lets me scroll horizontally (on windows only, on Linux it won't)
There are many mice that let you do horizontal scrolling, but it's still a pain (you tilt the middle mouse wheel to the left or right and it's awkward and not very smooth.)

Just in case you want to check the mouse out, http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_poi...52&cl=us,en It's the best mouse I've ever used. I personally love the back and forward buttons on it, can't use a mouse without them, I always find myself trying.

Which programs do you recommend?
And what are their costs?

Or, what kind of package do they come in with?

There is a thread outlining users preferences along with a long list of recommendations and experiences that can be found [here]. Hope that answers your questions.

Jacob.