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[Guest_imported]

Does anyone know a website with good tutorials of the processes of making a website completely done with Flash? Thanks

 

[mcpeekj]

go to

http://www.flashkit.com

it's where i learned just about everything i know. they have a bunch of tutorials, source files and a really good forum

 

[Wazz]

Did You ever get an answer to this? I am fairly new to flash, i think I now know the basics, but am wanting to create a site, made purely out of flash. For each different page, do you have to make a new scene? or do you just go to a different frame.. Its this basic concept about how the site should be built that im stuck with. Any help would be great!

Thanks Guys

 

[Themuppeteer]

I'm trying the same
You could make different swf files and then with this.loadmovie...
I have never experimented with different scenes yet. Greetz,

The Muppeteer.
themuppeteer@hotmail.com

http://www.themuppeteer.tk

Don't eat yellow snow...

 

[Wazz]

anyone?

I tried it my making another scene, but in the preview it just flicked between the two scenes.. im missing something really obvious here!!

anyone willing to give us a clue what to do?

 

[Wazz]

arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
It was very obvious and infact quite a silly question!
I use a stop command on every frame, were applicable.

So would I use a different scene per page, or a different movie (swf file), or is that purely dependant on the size of each of my pages?

 

[Croitoru]

I am a novice but from my knowledge it depends on the size of the movie...you can use a swf file for as many pages as you want but if the size is greater than...let's say 200 Kb then you should consider splitting the movie and like Themuppeteer said, use this.loadmovie(....) action

 

[eladi]

hei,

croitoru is right. it all really depends on the situation. if the site is not going to be too big, i usually work with a one frame timeline and movieclips. so what i do is creating each menu in a separate movieclip and stop it on the first frame. i put all movieclips (menus) on the stage, but hide them (visible, _alpha, position...however you like). when a menu is called, i make it visible and let it play.
you'll see, as soon as you your flash websites become large and complex, you'll have problems, when you try to animate the menus on the main timeline. it's easier to animate them in seperate movieclips.
as for splitting the website in different swf-files: i think it's a good idea to do this if you're if you're website get really big. although it is a slightly more complicated (with the "dropzones" and everything) than using movieclips. see the two examples below the first one works with loading swf-files. it's one of my earliest projects and there are many things that would be worth correcting (size, missing preloader), but you'll have an idea of how it feels when loading swf-files. the second link is my website that i'm working on right now. this is all done with movieclips.

http://www.auto-i-public.ch/acom/

http://www.auto-i-public.ch/adi/aresthetics.html

by the way. tell me what you think about these projects.

adrian