animation for broadcast ported to web

I need to design an animated logo for my friend's company that would be used mainly for his web site.

I've been doing mostly motion graphics for broadcast so i was wondering if i can do the actual work in AE as usual then export it for web use or i should use something like flash or other web based animation apps . Suggestions ?? thanks

If you have CS5, you can animate at will in AE and then just export the project as a Flash project. All unsupported effects in Flash will be rasterized though. Once that is done you can open the project in Flash and export from there.
Or you can take Cory's suggestion and export a flash movie (f4v). Don't use AE though to export- open the AE project in Adobe Media Encoder and render from there- much better compression.

Tudor "Ted" Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

Thanks everyone for the reply,

Great news! that i can go on and design in AE as usual. I just checked the clients's website and they are using a simple static logo with a black bg for the introductory page. So my idea is to replace this page with an animated logo. The fonts of the loge has been provided on an Illustrator doc, basically, the template session of their business card.

You guys suggested that i do the animation in AE and use another encoding engine/app to encode to H264 for Flash.

1- Anyone knows if Flash will accept/read elementary AVC ( H264 ) stream from Sonic Cinevision encoder. I've been using Cinevision to encode all of our BluRay titles that goes to replication with great success. The only encoder that i've found of better quality is the Cinemacraft HD.

2-My animation will be over a black bg, will i end up seeing the border of this black bg once it is incorporated into the web browser, which is also black ( this will look ugly ). Ideally, i just want to have a logo animation with a transparent bg so the web guy can just lay it on top of any color bg from his web page.

3-What size do you guys suggest i should use for my comps/logo so that it will have an impact, but yet, light and speedy for web usage. Remember, this logo is on the first page where there will be nothing but the logo along with 2 small language selection ( french/english )

Thanks