Html Flash combination

[ChiefDesigns]

I am trying to create a website that will have a flash movie on three sides of the text area on a webpage (a menu and banner and such). I want to avoid using frames because I need this page to be searchable on the big search engines. I also want the movie to load as one movie so there will be one preloader for the entire page instead of three sections.

If there is a way to do this could someone let me know? A possible way of putting the flash movie over the part of the page I want to show but have the movie transparent or something.

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[scudsucker]

Your preloader would have to use localConnection() or javascript to communicate with the 3 separate flash movies to determine how much of each is loaded.

localConnection is a means for flash movies in the same HTML page to communicate, I would not reccomend trying javascript!

Theres no real way of creating transparent flash for web ( across all browsers ) but you could try asking the 3rd party apps such as North Code etc ( ask in Stand-alone/aplications forum)

Be aware too that you'll need text links as well as a flash nav for search engines to index your site.

[ChiefDesigns]

Alright, thanks