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07 November 2008

AskMeCha: Can you hyperlink to a part of a Flash website? AKA: Why real estate websites piss me off!→[More:]So we've got this e-Newsletter that we're going to be sending out all over and we want certain words or phrases in the image to link to certain parts of the website. Can you do that to a Flash website? Or are we royally screwed if we want the e-Newsletter to have real functionality?

BTW, Flash designers who also don't provide HTML or PHP-equivalents can bite me.

post by: TrishaLynn at: 10:18 | 7 comments

Can you do that to a Flash website?
Unfortunately not. Sorry.

posted by seanyboy 07 November | 12:16

This really should be a shouting thread.

posted by -t 07 November | 13:34

ALRIGHT THEN!

FUCK YOU FLASH WEBSITE DESIGNERS FOR NOT PROVIDING HTML EQUIVALENTS, AND MAKING YOUR GODDAMN SITES SO HARD FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY USE THE INTERNET AND DIDN'T PLAY MYST AS A KID TO NAVIGATE! I AM TRYING TO SELL RESIDENCES TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THEM, BUT IF THEY GET SO FRUSTRATED BY THE NAVIGATION THAT THEY TURN AWAY AND GO TO SOME OTHER SITE THAT'S EASIER TO NAVIGATE BUT THE PRODUCT SUCKS MORE THAN OURS, YOU JUST FUCKING LOST US SOME MONEY, BITCHES!

posted by TrishaLynn 07 November | 13:52

You can rehost a collection of screenshots from the flash movie. There may be legal issues involved.

posted by Eideteker 07 November | 14:50

NO, WE CAN'T, BECAUSE THE CREATIVE AGENCY HAS A STRANGLEHOLD ON WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T UPLOAD TO THE WEBSITE! IF IT WERE THAT EASY, I'D HAVE HAD .PDF PAGES OF WHAT WE WANTED TO PUT UP THERE ON IT AGES AGO.

FUCKING CREATIVE AGENCIES...

posted by TrishaLynn 07 November | 17:58

FLASH real estate website?

THAT'S FUCKED UP!

posted by dabitch 08 November | 09:47

I WAS HOPING YOU'D TURN UP IN THIS THREAD, BECAUSE YOU KNOW EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH ADVERTISING AND YOU CAN TELL ME WHY THEY ALL SEEM TO HAVE A HARD-ON FOR FLASH!

posted by TrishaLynn 08 November | 12:18

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