Overview of Publishing your Flash Movie (from Macromedia Flash Help)

Use the Publish command to prepare all the required files for a complete Flash application on the web. Publish prepares not only the Flash movie itself for the web, but creates alternate images in a variety of formats that display automatically if a Flash player is not available. Publish creates the supporting HTML document required to display a movie (or an alternate image) in a browser and control browser settings. Publish can also create stand-alone projectors for both Windows and Macintosh systems and QuickTime videos from Flash movies.

Before publishing, use the Publish Settings command to choose formats and specify settings. Once you have entered all the necessary Publish Settings options, you can repeatedly export to all selected formats at once by simply choosing File > Publish. Flash stores the Publish Setting you specify with the movie file, so each file can have its own settings.

To publish a movie:

1 Choose File > Publish Settings.
2 Select the option for each file format you want to create.
When you select a format for which Flash offers additional settings, a new tab appears above the current panel in the dialog box. Note that Windows and Macintosh projector options have no settings and therefore do not have their own tabs in the Publish Setting dialog box. When you choose an image format such as GIF, JPEG, or PNG, Flash automatically add the required HTML code to display the image if the Flash player is not available.
3 Enter a unique name for file, or select Use Default Name to create each file using the Flash file's name with the extension appropriate for that format.
4 Click the tab for the format options you want to change. Specify publish settings for each format as described in the following sections. Click Publish to generate all the specified files when you're done, or click OK to close the dialog box without publishing.
Flash generates the files as specified in Publish Settings. Choose File > Publish to immediately publish files in all specified formats using the current publish settings.

Putting your Flash movies on your Tripod Site

To place your movie on your Tripod site you need to do the following:

  1. In Flash, use the File>>Publish command to Publish your movie.  Be sure you note the directory where it is publishing to.
  2. Open your Tripod site in FrontPage.  For help on this see this page.
  3. Choose the File>>Import command in the FrontPage Explorer and then select the .html file and the .swf file (which where created by the publish command in Flash.
  4. Link to your Flash movie (the .html file) from another page or set your movie to be the index.html file so that it is the default page on your web site.
  5. You Flash movie should then be ready to use.