Flash :: Video Dont Start Correctly

Mouse Over Questions / I Dont Even Know Where To Start
www.missdjbee.com/index.fla

Ok here is what i want to accomplish... I don't even know how to begin

1. page loads like normally

2. actionscript checks for the day so if its FRIDAY the FRIDAYS will be appearing first if its THURSDAY it will show thursday first if its monday it would show thursday...

3. When you mouse over 1 picture the other 2 blur out...

4. Thats it... anyone can help me on where to start or how would i be able to do this??

Function Problems - Dont Even Now Where To Start
Before I embark on explaining this problem please bear in mind my coding skill is pretty inadequate!

I have the following 2 functions set up to be called by some dynamically created buttons:

function imageSizeOut(butt) {
butt.imageX = butt._x;
butt.imageY = butt._y;
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var outTween:Object = new Tween(butt, "_xScale", Strong.easeOut, 25, 100, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_yScale", Strong.easeOut, 25, 100, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_y", Strong.easeOut, butt._y, butt._y-100, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_x", Strong.easeOut, butt.imageX, 170, 0.5, true);
butt.gotoAndStop(2);
outTween.onMotionFinished = function() {
butt.gotoAndStop(3);
};
}
function imageSizeIn(butt) {
var inTween:Object = new Tween(butt, "_xScale", Strong.easeOut, 100, 25, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_yScale", Strong.easeOut, 100, 25, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_y", Strong.easeOut, butt._y, butt._y+100, 0.5, true);
new Tween(butt, "_x", Strong.easeOut, 170, butt.imageX, 0.5, true);
butt.gotoAndStop(2);
inTween.onMotionFinished = function() {
butt.gotoAndStop(1);
};
}

basically the first one will move and scale whichever button calls it. The second will revert that button to its orignal place and size. This works fine.

What i want to do and have no idea where to even start is as follows:

rollover any button to enlarge and move it. and at the same time check to see if any other button has already been moved and sized - if so, reset that button to its original size and position, as well as enlarging and moving the button you are currently rolling over. Does that make sense? It does in my head!

I simply to do not know where to start with this so if someone could help out with getting me in the right direction that would be amazing.

Cheers

d

Dont Start Music From Begining When Link Is Clicked
Hello all, I have a small problem I made a flash file where a music file is loaded and stops and starts with buttons I have made. that works fine however when i place the flash file the music loads fine but when i click a link to go into another section of my site the music starts over.

How do i have the music continusly play through out the site when different links are clicked.

I got the code for my buttons from another members post here on the forums here is the link

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...ighlight=music

I just need some help on how to make it continusly play with out starting from the begining when a different link in my site is clicked.

thanx for any help or links that might be helpful.

I Load A Flv In Flash: I Hear Audio But Dont See Video, Why?
Hi!
I´m trying to load a flv file inside a swf file. I´m working with Flash MX 2004 and I´m using this simple code:

// Create a NetConnection object
var netConn:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
// Create a local streaming connection
netConn.connect(null);
// Create a NetStream object and define an onStatus() function
var netStream:NetStream = new NetStream(netConn);
/*netStream.onStatus = function(infoObject) {
status_txt.text += "Status (NetStream)" + newline;
status_txt.text += "Level: "+infoObject.level + newline;
status_txt.text += "Code: "+infoObject.code + newline;
};*/
// Attach the NetStream video feed to the Video object
holder_video.attachVideo(netStream);
// Set the buffer time
netStream.setBufferTime(5);
// Begin playing the FLV file
netStream.play("v1.flv");

Were holder_video is the name of the instance of the Video component I´m using from the library of Flash and v1.flv is located in the same folder of the flash.

The problem is I can hear the audio of the video but I dont see the images. I wonder if there is a problem with the format of the flv we produced (we are using Sorenson Squeze tool) or if something in the code is wrong.
If anyone can help with this, I will apreciate it.

Display Object From Child Class ? Sound But No Video. I Dont Get It...
So I have a main package with a main class, then it breaks down into children from there (I think thats how you explain it). I am trying to stream a video and get it on the stage. I know my issue is with adding the display object but I dont get it - I have too many forum posts / books open but I just cant seem to get it. How do I get it to display when compiled? I can hear the sound but cant see it.

Main Package:

package core {

import flash.display.*;

public class SecretSolutions extends MovieClip {

var secretsXMLFile = "../xml/secrets.xml";

public function SecretSolutions() {

var secretsXML = new GlobalXML;

var secretsVideo = new GlobalVideo;

secretsVideo.showVideo();

secretsXML.importXML(secretsXMLFile);
}
}
}

Global Video Package

package core {

import flash.display.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.media.*;

internal class GlobalVideo extends MovieClip {

public function showVideo () {

var video:Video = new Video(320,240);

addChild(video);

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();

nc.connect(null);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onStatusEvent);

function onStatusEvent(stat:Object):void{

trace(stat.info.code);
}

var meta:Object = new Object();

meta.onMetaData = function(meta:Object){

trace(meta.duration);
}

ns.client = meta;

video.attachNetStream(ns);

ns.play("video_001.flv");

}
}
}

Thanks in advance and for any insight - Im new to AS3

Flix SWF Video Files Dont Work In Mozilla Firefox Browser
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flix/encoding.asp

The sample flix SWF video file for that tutorial does not work in the Firefox browser, but it works fine when I visit the tutorial page in IE. Is something set wrong with my Firefox browser, or is there a big problem with the flix video SWF format in Firefox? I am interested in using this technology, but it is useless to me if it doesn't work in all browsers. I would appreciate any help you could offer, Thanks!

Tyr

Video - Where To Start?
Over the course of the next 3-6 months we will be going from having 0 videos on our site to having well over 30 videos. We have absolutely no one on staff who has any decent experience with Flash or Flex. We want to do everything in house as we have the resources just not the knowledge. Half of the videos have been shot by a professional production team, the other videos will be produced in house by a soon to be created video production studio/team.

For our episode type videos it would be nice to have a single template that dynamically pulls the correct video so we don't have to create a new player every time a new episode is released; if that's even possible.

Can someone give me some direction as to how the whole process comes together? Any kind of recommended training? Again we are starting from scratch so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Help With Start Video Script
hello i have a script for a button to start a movie.
script:
bPlay.onRelease = function(){

flvPlayback.play(video);
bPlay._visible=false;
}

I dont want to use the button I would rather have it start without this button.

how can i write this to start the video without the button?

Start And Stop The Video
Hi,

I have taken a flv player instance on the stage. Set the content path.
I can see the movie properly. What i want to do is I want to create buttons for pausing and stoppping the movie.(i dont want to use the inbuilt skins)

I have done this before, almost a year back. Now I dont remember it.
Just remember that we need to create an object and then object.start .....

Any solution?

THanks...

Why Doesn't My Video Start
Why doesn't my video start ? I changed the video URL, but flash doesn't complain about missing file.. I don't get it.

ActionScript Code:
// Initialize net stream
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);// Not using a media server.
ns=new NetStream(nc);
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, statusHandler);

// Add video to stage
vid=new Video();

vid.name="myVideo";
addChild(vid);

client = new Object();
ns.client=client;
client.onMetaData=nsMetaDataCallback;

// Play video
vid.attachNetStream( ns );

ns.play( new URLRequest("videos/1.flv");
trace(ns.info);

thanks,
Patrick

Delay On Start Of Video?
How can I add a delay on a FLV Playback video? 5sec or so

Start Flash Video
How can I have an event on my page start a flash video start?

I have a .FLV file that starts and looks correct. I see the controls on the video. I want a rollover on a separate object restart the video from the beginning.

I have tried looking it up, but have not found the correct term.
Thank you very much for your clues.

Robert

FLV VIDEO - Return To Start
I've loaded video using the flv object and ActionScript 2.0. When the video finishes playing, what method do I use to make it stop at the beginning of the video?

From Start To Finnish Video Intro
Hi all. First time poster here.

I want to put a little video intro on my website "Welcome too... ". I have no idea where to start except to start here.

[F8] How Do I Start Flash Video On Mute?
I have a flash animation with an FLV of a commercial. My client requires it to be muted on startup and for a mute button to appear to allow a visitor to un-mute it. How do I accomplish this?

[CS3] Xml Video Array - Pause, Then Start?
I'm a bit under the gun here as a client was expecting this last night and I haven't been able to figure it out... sure would love some help.

Basically, I've got this xml doc with 4 videos. After the first video plays, I need some code to stop the array from continuing, until the user jumps to a new frame. So, there are 4 videos (a, b, c, d) that correspond to 4 frames (0, 20, 30, 40) and when the user clicks on a button, the playhead jumps to one of the 4 frames.

Any help is very appreciated.
Thanks.http://www.bornwondering.com/uploads/fla_files.zip

Client Want's A Video Mixer. Where Do I Start?
A client of mine just asked me to find out how they can have a video sequencer on thier site.

this is the reference point http://www.whensheshot.com/

As the PM where do I start to figure out how to get one of these going.

We have all the video clips but I what am I looking at as far as any database implementation, what about bandwidth? will I need to set up a flash media server? could I leverage akamai? How do one of these things work in a broad sense? once the clips are placed does it send a query string to the database to pull all the correct video files.

Anybody know some one that can build one of these?

Any help or at least pointing me is some direction whould be great.

Make A Video Automatically Start
I have a page with a video on it, and then links going to other videos on separate layers and frames. However, the video on frame one won't play automatically. You have to click the link to make it play. How can I make the video on frame one automatically start?

Help In Creating A Flv Video Start Frame
Hi - I have a video player with autoplay=false. I'd like to enhance it by inserting a start frame or screenshot to replace the current black screen that comes up before the play button is clicked. I thought it would be easy, but haven't made any progress.

Thanks.

Automatic Back To Start Of Video
When a video I created has played its duration how do I get the video to go back to the start again ,but not play. I have created a play/ pause button that has the following actionscript:

on (release){
ns.pause("Cashel.flv");
}

What must I do to amend this actionscript?

How To Click An Image And Start A Video
I have a video and I have added controls to it. What I am now trying to do is place an image over the top of the video and when the image is clicked it will make the image disappear and play the video.

Any starting points for finding out how to do this?

Thanks,

Dan

FLASH MX Click Video To Start It
I am totally new to flash mx... I have a video and want to add some interaction such as click to start the video... 20 seconds later stop and then click again to play the rest of the video... Is this hard to do? How do you do it... If I was to buy a book on how to do this what am I looking for?

OnClick Start A Netstream Video .flv
Hi everybody, I'm looking for some help here. I'm using the Scroling thumbnail tutorial to make a video gallery of my project. Since I'm a editor and not a flash web programmer, I have some difficulty with the code when become time to link the buttons to the netstream windows.

Other thing. When I was finaly able to link button to the video, the video doesn't play the full lenght. It stop in the middle. Well It never stop at the same place.

Here are the code so far:
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, panelOver);

function panelOver(event:MouseEvent):void {
panel.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, panelOver);
panel.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollPanel);

}
var b:Rectangle = stroke.getBounds(this);

function scrollPanel(event:Event):void {
if(mouseX < b.left || mouseX > b.right || mouseY < b.top || mouseY > b.bottom) {
panel.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, scrollPanel);
panel.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, panelOver);
}
if(panel.x > 50) {
panel.x = 50;
}
if(panel.x < -689) {
panel.x = -689;
}
var xdist = mouseX - stage.stageWidth / 2;
panel.x += -(xdist / 7);
}

var video:Video = new Video(428, 240);
addChild(video);

video.x=240;
video.y=211;

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onStatusEvent);

function onStatusEvent(stat:Object):void
{
trace(stat.info.code);
}

var meta:Object = new Object();
meta.onMetaData = function(meta:Object)
{
trace(meta.duration);
}

ns.client = meta;

video.attachNetStream(ns);

panel.smpq.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Navigation)
function Navigation(event:MouseEvent):void{
ns.play("video/SMPQ.flv");
}

panel.ak.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Navigation2)
function Navigation2(event:MouseEvent):void{
ns.play("video/AK27_trailler.flv");
}

Thank you for your help... I'll add my play, stop and seek button later on... For now, I want to be able to switch the video with the button.
Nicolas

Start A FLV Downloading From A Set Time In The Video
Hi,
I am trying to find a way to force a .flv to start downloading from a certain point in it's duration?

I am currently using 'videoStream.play(url)', waiting till the entire video loads, and then using 'videoStream.seek(timePos)' to play the video from the time I want.

Ideally however, I would just like the video to start downloading from 'timePos' straight away.

Many thanks

Video: Start Buffering Somewhere Inside Of A Videoclip
hey!

is it possible to start buffering a videoclip from somewhere else than 0:00?

i have a video which is about 5 min long and i want to enable users to jump directly to 4:00 for example, without preloading this 4 minutes...

means: when the user clicks on the video, it should start buffering from 4:00

is it possible to do that without FMS/Red5?

thanks in advance & bye,

hans

How To Prevent Auto Start Of Video In Flash?
Thanks for the help in advance.

I just need to NOT have the video start playing automatically when it loads. I use import video option in flash and then encode it, then publish it. I tried to put stop(); in frame/video but that didn't work and I don't see any properties when I click on the video object so I'm not sure how I can go about doing this. I just need to video to load as stopped. not auto-play. Thank you.

Edited: 12/08/2006 at 10:17:19 PM by michael12121212

Set Streaming Video Index Start And Stop
Is it possible to set an index of where the flash video will begin streaming from and where it will stop at? Thanks in advance.

Play Button To Start My Flash Video
I have created a flash video with a video controller, and the video does not play automatically.

But what I wanted to do was to create a button that displayed itself on the first frame, and then on click it started the video and made itself dissapear.

I know how to make it dissapear on click that isnt the problem really, but how to get the video to start and all is my main problem.

Cheers

Lee

Click To Start Video/Fading Text
I have an Imported Video. I would like to know how to:

1) Have the video be black with words across that say Click Here and when the user clicks the video starts.. How can I do this?Please be specfic I never used FLASH before.

2) I want to add text to the video, I imagine you would simply create a new layer. How can I have the text fade in and out?

Answer to these 2 questions would really help me out...

How To Stop/start Mouse Rollover In FLASH VIDEO?
Fellow Professionals,

I am using Flash 8 Professional. I have imported a video
using the default flash 8 codec and thus the video and audio
files are separated into two separate files / symbols (nice!)
for easy control of the audio / video.

QUESTION: I want to create a very simple movie clip that
only plays if the mouse is rolled over the movie clip - in which
case both the video and audio will proceed. As soon as the
mouse exits the movieclip area, then the video and audio will
stop. When mouse rolls over again, the video and audio will
again start playing from the point at which they stopped.

The algorhythm is very simple. I am just a bit in need of
direction as to which clip events, properties, listeners, handlers,
etc. (i.e. the syntax to express my algorhythm) that I need to activate and code in order for this to work.

Does anyone have the expertise in AS syntax to provide what
should be a few lines of code solution?

Thank you for your help.

Kindest regards,

B. Leon

Change Button Fuction To Auto Start Video
hello i have a script for a button to start a movie.
script:
bPlay.onRelease = function(){

flvPlayback.play(video);
bPlay._visible=false;
}

I dont want to use the button I would rather have it start without this button.

how can i write this to start the video without the button?

Flash Video Paused On Specific Frame At Start.
maybe this post should be in the newbie section....

but i am loading .flv's into flash and exporting them for progressive download. i have the autostart turned off so they are paused when loaded, but i need them to be paused on a certain frame since the first frame is black, and we need an image.

any simple solutions?

thanks.

FMS3: Delay In Start Of Video Stream; Error
Hi,

We're setting up an FMS3-based video streaming system for a new website, and have built a player using AS2 (for compatibility with Flash Player v8) and the FLVPlayback componenent which uses FMS3's new native bandwidth checking to provide us with a figure with which we can work out which of 3 streams to play and how long to buffer before playback. The initial NetConnection connection happens pretty much instantly and we get the numbers we're looking for, but it then takes about another 30 seconds before the FLVPlayback component connects to the server and begins to stream the video. There doesn't seem to be anything in the logic of the player to cause this, and when we test on a local deployment of FMS3 we don't get the problem. Furthermore, we had this player working nicely with FMS2 on the remote server until recently, when we upgraded during our development stage. We think the key must be in the errors we get in the FMS server log:

quote:Mon 09:30:33 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain/OurAppName
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) connection to admin accepted.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) sending register cmd to edge. - Player receives BW check numbers here
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Connection rejected by server. Reason : [ Server.Reject ] : (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:31:05 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain:1935/OurAppName - Video begins streaming

The GUIDs are the folder names on our server containing the media, and appear here because FMS takes the first part of the path to be the application instance, which has not proved to be a problem before.

I can't find anything about validating or signing applications, but I suspect these errors have something to do with the inexplicable delay before streaming starts. Does anyone know anything about this?

thanks,
Ben

How Do I Start A Streaming .flv At A Point Other Than The Beginning Of The Video File?
I have a 1.5 hour flv video that is streaming from a Microsoft 2003 box with Wowza Media Server installed. Using Actionscript 3 and the FLVplayback component I would like to start the video at a point about 10 seconds from the beginning.

This code snippet does not work:

myVideoFile.seek(10);
myVideoFile.play();

Though the video seeks to the proper point in the video file, the play() call sends it back to the beginning. Thanks for your help!

HELP: Flash Video Sticking At Start & Stop FLV From Loop
I've used the actionscript exactly how it's shown here in the tutorials for the FLV Videos. It works great except for a few little details I'm curious about.

1. I have the buffer set to 20 "ns.setBufferTime(20);" and it sticks a little at the beginning and if I set higher it's even more noticeable. Is there anything I'm doing wrong or is there any remedy for this?

2. How do I stop the video at the very end and not have it loop?

Here's the URL in case it helps:
http://www.massifmedia.com/projects/ide ... in_01.html

Thanks for any advice!!!

Check Dont Works,I Dont Know Where Is The Mistake
What I´m trying to do is next. When you roll over a button , him has to check if a mc has the frame in number 27 and if its oky tell another mc to play o what ever

on (rollOver) {
if (_root.klip.de.klips.pantalla.klips.pntgrand._curr entframe == 27) {
_root.klip.de.klips.pantalla.pntgrand.gotoAndstop( 1);
} else {
_root.klip.de.klips.pantalla.pntgrand.gotoAndPlay( 2);
DONT WORK I DONT KNOW WHY

if (_root.klip.de.klips.pantalla.pntgrand.currentFram e<=27) {
tellTarget ("_root.klip de klips .pantalla.klip panta back") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}
}
}
dont work ider

Easy Question... I Dont Know Why I Dont Know It....
erm..

this is a bit stupid really.. what do i put on a button instance to make a file download to the user's computer..

eg when they click on the button it downloads a jpeg from the sever..?

stupid aint it...

Dont Understand Why This Dont Work
ok this file is from another post and workes fine as far as the movement and stopping. i tried to add a button to it but the function seems to overtake every other script in the movieclip. heres the fla. is there a workaround or am i doing this wrong?

thanks for your time!

Rewind, Pause, And Start Start Buttons For Base Movie And External Mov

I'm lost...

I have a base movie that contains three buttons (Rewind, Pause, and Start)

The code for the rewind button that sends the base movie to frame 2 which is set to play and then reloads the external movie (images/4_24.swf). works perfectly and is shown below.

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release){
    function test(){
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",25);
    loadMovie("images/4_24.swf", "container");
    container._x=15;
    container._y = 95;
}
test();}

My question is does any one know how to now pause both the base and external movie with the pause button and then start both movies again with the start button????  Some how I need to control both movies with these three buttons.

Code for play button is ---
on (release) {
play();
}

Code for pause button is ---
on (release) {
stop();
}

Thank you MJR

Start And Stop Streaming Sounds (start Stopping Currently Playing)
Hi there

I am novice user of flash and have no real AS experience.

What I want to do is..

I have 18 songs from an album and have taken 30 sec from each and down sampled them ready for flash.

I want to be able preview them all from one flash file.
I will be streaming the songs in, so the initial download time is minimal.

With 18 start stop buttons for each one, but because customers are lazy, they are likely just going to click the next play button for the next preview, so I need the play buttons to stop 'this' preview before playing the next with stop control also being a stop control for those who have had enough or are well behaved browsers : )

I hope this makes sense and look forward to hearing from someone.

Cheers

Ian Hill

How To Delay The Start Of External Swf(start From Say 10th Frame)
I am using the following code to load an external swf.Now I need to start the playing of the swf movie not from frame 1 but from say 10th frame.
Please help

Code:
var myMcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();

myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes, totalBytes) {
//swfToLoad._visible = false;
loadedPercent = Math.floor((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
_root.bar_mc._xscale = loadedPercent;
//trace(bar_mc._xscale);
c.text = loadedPercent+"%";
//trace(loadAnim.percLoaded.text);
spacer.loadMovie("images/loadingss.jpg");

};

myListener.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC:MovieClip) {

swfToLoad._visible = true;
loadAnim._visible = false;
//swfToLoad._width=367;
//swfToLoad._height=255;
}

myMcl.addListener(myListener);
myMcl.loadClip("Jason_500.swf",swfToLoad);

How Can I Start An External Program And/or Start A File
I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "program.exe");
stop();
}

Also I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "start.bat");
stop();
}

And in the .bat file I've put this:

@echo off
start file.doc
exit

But this does not seem to work, what Am I doing wrong???

Thanx alot!

FLV Start Time? Can I Start It Playing 2 Secs In?
Is there a way with actionscript to tell an FLV to start playing 2 seconds into the video. What I have is an FLV that has 2 seconds of black at the beginning, but I don't want that to play.

Or if anyone knows a way to re-encode an flv so that I can get rid of the 1st 2 seconds. I've tried re-encoding it with Riva Encoder but it just gets all screwed up. And the Flash encoder won't even let me add it to the que. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lady

Sound Start Doesn't Start
I've been experiencing this problem. Sound.start() doesn't always start. A lot of times, it does, sometimes, it doesn't start for me. Sometimes it happens even after sound load has just finished. Has anyone experienced the same? any suggestions?

Edited: 08/24/2007 at 01:26:57 AM by nehcdet

To Start Again, Or Not To Start Again, That Is The Question
help!

I know I'm a dumbass, no need to rub it in. Guess who just learned what a smart clip is. now here's the issue:

http://www.7inone.info/test4/

everything on this site that SHOULD be a smart clip, ISN'T. Every single button and movie clip and movie clip holder has been scripted individually. And now, this far along, I realize that the smarter thing to do would have been to use smart clips. So do you think I should start over, and do it right? or should I just leave it, and learn from my mistake for future work. I would love to start again and get it perfect, but the reality of the matter is that the boss want's the site ready to go - and SOON.

any additional comments on over all design, etc. would be appricated.

thanks guys

sid.