Flash Site Design - Navigation advice...

Author

Navigation advice...

Fuzquia

2005-05-28, 7:21 pm

I am looking for some advice regarding building a portfolio website in Flash. I
am new to flash but know the basics with working on a single page.

My main question is regarding navigation between pages.

Does flash work the same as director with each page on a seperate section of
the timeline, with buttons scripted to go to the start of each page?

Or do you create seperate flash files for each page with scripting on buttons
to tell flash to open say page 2?

Also, I presume you are all heavy flash users, therefore, what would your
advice be in producing a full (although small) website in flash? Instead of
dreamweaver with flash included?

I find flash pages more pleasing to the eye and think they look more
professional but I would like your experienced opinions on some of the basic
pros and cons if possible.

Thankyou in advance to all who contribute...

sly one

2005-05-28, 11:18 pm

The easiest way is to put each site section on a frame. give that frame a label
and then use _root.gotoAndStop(frameLabel); on a button to navigate to the
section.

A harder method is to put each site section in its own movieclip and then turn
the visibility on and off as needed like this:
section1_mc._visible = true;//or false

A an even harder method is, as you suggest, to load each section as a separate
..swf file using containerClip.loadMovie("section1.swf");

Bionicegg

2005-05-28, 11:18 pm

i would use loadmovie and just load each seperate file when someone clicks
on a menu button.

For example:

on (release) {
loadMovie("women_movie.swf", "holder");
}

--
Mark T. Johnson
Director/Developer
Bionic Egg Design
mark@bionicegg.com
"Fuzquia" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d7a86m$a1p$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I am looking for some advice regarding building a portfolio website in
>Flash. I
> am new to flash but know the basics with working on a single page.
>
> My main question is regarding navigation between pages.
>
> Does flash work the same as director with each page on a seperate section
> of
> the timeline, with buttons scripted to go to the start of each page?
>
> Or do you create seperate flash files for each page with scripting on
> buttons
> to tell flash to open say page 2?
>
> Also, I presume you are all heavy flash users, therefore, what would your
> advice be in producing a full (although small) website in flash? Instead
> of
> dreamweaver with flash included?
>
> I find flash pages more pleasing to the eye and think they look more
> professional but I would like your experienced opinions on some of the
> basic
> pros and cons if possible.
>
> Thankyou in advance to all who contribute...
>