When you are satisfied with appearance of your intro it is time to publish it so that animation could be used at your site.  Flash publishes animation in files of .SWF format, which is not editable, and others will not be able to use your work. .SWF files are embedded in HTML page much like .GIF or .JPEG files - with a help of special HTML tag.  However, the syntax is more complex, hence this tag is also responsible for timely download of flash player if one is needed.  To make things easy, Flash also exports a page with a snippet of animation embedding code you can cut and paste from the exported file and to your page.  The sub steps provide more details:

3.1. Make sure that File>Publish Settings are set up correctly:  go to Formats tab and check Flash and HTML boxes. You will not need the others so uncheck them.  Click OK.

3.2. Select File>Publish and see new files (.HTML and .SWF) created in the same folder as your .FLA file.

3.3. Open the .HTML file in a text editor and copy the <OBJECT>…</ OBJECT> tag that may look like this:

Text like this taken from the exported file should appear in HTML code of your page where you want the animation to be played. .SWF file must also be present on server and available via path specified in SRC attribute of EMBED tag.  This concludes Flash Intro tutorial.  However, there is much more to Flash animation than this.  If you want to improve your flash skill, here are two very good places to start:  www.flashkit.com and www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/blueprint.

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