Flash :: Building A Flash Website

Building An All Flash Website Please Help
Hey! I need to know a few things about building an all flash website (flashsite):

1. Is the site made of different swf's (ie. navigation bar, main content, mp3/music player)

2. Do i just create tables/layers in Dreamweaver and put the swf's in them.

3. How does the navigation swf pull up differnt pages (other swf's) in seperate swf (main content area)

Please help in giving me your in put, and anything else that i have to know about building a flashsite. THANX!

[F8] Help With Flash Website Building
Hello everyone.

I am new not only to flash kit but to website building with flash in general. I have been asked to build a site similar to this one: http://www.faithhill.com, albeit a more simple functioning site. Of note is the news on that website and how it has the embedded frame with 2 windows, one with the news item that is clickable and the right pane which is a scrollable window that contains the actual news article.

This is the main functionality I am trying to figure out how to implement in flash 8.

I'm not new to working with code nor with building websites, but I am new to attempting to do this in flash.

I've looked through the samples that come with Flash 8 and I've begun to look through the vast amounts of information here at flash kit, but I'm hoping that this post and some discussion of what I am attempting to do will help shorten the time frame that it will take to figure this out.

Any assistance, or even discussion is greatly appreciated.

D

Building A Big Website With Flash
Hi,

Im building for the first time a website with flash (ac3). but Im not a total n00b to flash .

My plan is it to creat a main.swf file which holds things like the navigation and the language selector (you can choose "ru" or "eng") and it has a function which loads the subpages.swf (i think its better to make the subpages unique becouse they wont look the same at all) e.g. if I click on the second navibutton it should load the 02.swf inside of the main.swf __and__ destroy the old .swf which was there befor. I dont know how to write this function the best way (addChild / removeChild maybe?), but i know how to addEventListener to the buttons.

My second problem is inside of this (e.g. 02.swf) will be a function which fillout the textfields with xml data. So this function needs to get the language var from the main.swf to parse xml with the right language. I know how to do the parsing part. But i dont know how to send a var from main.swf to the page.swf.

I would realy appreciate if someone could give me some tips for that

Building Flash Website
I am new to everything about flash and currently going through the tutorials at an amazing comfort. However, I am going ahead of myself in trying to understanding a feature i recognized on a site built in flash. I make reference to www.indersfashion.com - when ever you pull up the site in your browser an image shows up as the bachground. If you were close your browser and pull up the same site, a different inage shows up as the background. I have seen over 10 different images as the background for this site and I wondered how is that possible.
Well, my question is what function(s) or is scripting that makes it possible and how can it or is it done?
I would appreciate any help. Eventually, i would love to use this concept for future plans.

Building A Whole Website In Flash
Hiya there people, got an essentially quite simple question but with many, many answers I imagine!!! so here goes...

I am reasonably new to AS3 and generally the idea of OOP, and I'm just about to tackle building a whole site in flash. I'm aware there are a few different approaches to this, and I'd like to know people's practices for organising and putting together a site in general.

Right, so far I have a Core.swf that loads the Intro.swf, followed by the Home.swf... and so on, using the menu that is located within Core. I'm having trouble figuring out how the section swf's are going to reference some of the methods I have in my Core.

Does that make any sense?? I've considered extending all my section classes with my core class, or trying to have static methods in my Core class that I can always access, but there always seems to be a problem!!

...So has anyone got any links to good resources or can people share the way they usually deal with it? So far I haven't found a lot about it! All theories welcome!!

Phew, long post. Sorry guys I will learn eventually...

Cheers!
Tyler

Building A Flash Website
Would it be better to build a web site as one flash file with several scenes as different pages, or build the site using multiple swf files and load them as needed?

Any and all opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

FSEdge

Building A Website Using Flash
whats up fellaz, i'm a newbee with flash but i have a basic understanding of how to use it. I'm in the process of building a website in flash but i need a lil info. I'm really stuck on what the dimension of the stage should be so the flash movie will fit flush with the web browser. At the moment i have a flash movie on my website but it doesn't fit in al web browsers. thankz for your time and consideration and i hope to hear from you's soon.

Ahmed www.essentialmovements.com

How To Start Building Up A Flash Website
Can anybody guide me through how I should start building a Flash site. I am brand new to Flash. Do I need to learn XML or something ? Just a guide please, to help me get started.

Thanks.

Building A Flash Website Tutorial
Hi all... I found a great little tutorial the other day which was an opinion on building a Flash site the 'correct' way... It had css, and externally loading elements... But for the life of me can't find it! If anyone has seen anything liek this or this one would be much appreciated!

Building Fully Flash Website
To whom it may concerns:

What makes a better way of building website with Flash MX Professional, is it building site within one FLA file or more by loading SWF file on it (homepage)?

And how do I use the Project Panel... what does it for!?

Thank you in advance!

Building Up My 1st Full Flash Website
So i wanna build a site fully in flash

I also wanna use ONE SINGLE video player for ALL the videos i will have to offer to my audience, and not as many players as videos i have which is currently the case

I have a main menu with sub menus or sections if you prefer

How could i build up such a site?

Thank you folks

section 1=videolist nÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â°1 ,section 2=videolist nÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â°2 etc....

Basics Of Building A Website In Flash
I have been trying to find site templates to get an idea on how Navigation and Site structure inside of flash looks like, but all i've been able to find are AS1 and 2 templates, does anyone here mind sharing their file of a fully built website, or can guide me to where I can find something like that?

Thanks

Building A Search Engine Within A Flash Website
I have a problem. I have designed a website totally in flash.there are five product pages in that website which are again subdivided into many categories.Now I want to built a search engine within the website so that when i type any product name inthe search box and press enter or click on the 'search button', it takes me to taht relevant page. Please tell me how to go about it.
Thanx

Building A Flash Based Website For The First Time. (Mountains Of Help Needed)
First off, heres my email (severance@gmail.com), so that all you kind (and bored) flash pro's can communicate with me outside of these forums.

Secondly, this is the site i would like to base mine around (in style) jkrowling.com

Thirdly, to the problem at hand - Im completely new to flash
If possible, could someone either post a link to an indepth website creation (using flash) tutorial, or (preferrably for me) could they get in touch via my email and guide me through it.

I have skills with photoshop, html, javascript and css but im new (and confused) to actionscript, and all other things flash.

Thankyou for any help you can offer,

Building Website Help
Hey all. I'm busy building a portfolio website for graduation and I have two issues:

1)How do I make the entire movie(site) fit into the window (using the internet window's vertical scrollbar)? When I publish the movie and test the html file, only the top portion of the page appears and it doesnt "fill" the entire window, so half of whats on the page is gone.

(yes, i know I could have avoided the issue with a smaller background, but its not how i want it to go down :P)

2)When everything is all said and done, how do I upload my html file onto my site (I'm using startlogic.com to host it)?

I'm using Flash 8.

Any help would be rad.

Website Building
Is there a site that explains the best setup for a flash website.
What i mean is as follows
When i was jsut starting is Flash i built the whole site using keyframes and the scene timeline.

Then i got better and now i am trying to keep the timeline like five frames...one for each menu option and within each frame have all my animation.

Idealy i would like to do away with tweens and keyframing and code animations like alpha and easing etc...

Can anyone give any advice on the best structure for efficient and robust flash sites?

ilan

Help Building Website
Helllo, this is my first post on this boarrd, even tho ive been here for quite a while. Well i am in the process of building a website for some friends, and im having some trouble. So far i have all of the movie clips and buttons, but im not sure how to script it so that it works like a website. I want to make it so that when u click on the button, the movie clip pops up in the space ive previded for it. And i also want when i click on a button, for the previous movie clip to disapear.

Im sure this has been asked many times, so if you dont want to explain it to me, could u at least leave a link of where it has been explained before. I have tried searching for stuff, but im not exactly sure what to type for it to search.

Also if you could keep in mind that i dont know THAT much about scripting in flash, so if u could please explain it in a way that would be easy to understand that would help to.

Website Building Help
Here's what I need help with...

The Denver Broncos Virtual Trading Card program was discontinued, so I'm doing what I can to set it up on an offsite location. I'm a graphic designer but I don't know anything about Flash or how to do any of what I need for the website structure itself.

Here's the address: http://www.denverbroncos.com/tradingCardApp/
Sign in using my account... Name: White Dragon - Password: 101183

Anyone that can help me with this, it would be GREATLY appriciated and there's a very good possibility of getting paid for helping.

Contact Info:
email: whitedragon1983na@yahoo.com
Yahoo: smartguy21na
AIM: smartguy22na

Thanks In Advance ~ Nick

ARG Really Stuck While Building A Website
Okok, this really bites.

it's not that i'm really new with flash, but i know that there are alot of people that can do things with flash that i can only dream about. So that's why i'm typing this message.

I'm building (trying to) a personal website, but i can't seem to let flash MX know that i don't want a movieclip, but a website. I allready figured out how i could make a button work, but the screen keeps racing through the timeline...and i has to stand still, until someone presses a button...

so that's the whole problem, how can i make flash MX listen?

now for short:

building a website, Flash MX, made a button, in preview it plays like a movie.

Q: why is that? and how can I solve it so that it works correct?

tnx alot,

Drazworx

Building A Website For A Blindman
Does anyone know of a tutorial for creating input text on a site so that: people can type, say an e-mail address in, and you can scipt it to send me an e-mail of what they typed in?

cheers.

-Gg.

Building Website Interface
Hello,

I've been wondering if there is any kind of actionscript 3 interface framework available that would simplify making websites with actionscript 3. With that I mean that I could easily change the code to manipulate the content with the navigation and that stuff (somekind of wrapper - example)?

I'm having problems because I want to build a professional flash website where you have dynamic navigation and content - and when you press the button, there are page transitions/animations to switch the content - I have some considerations on how to do this the best way.

I'm having problems with building that by myself and it would be much easier to see some examples on how to do this - like how should I put different things in different classes to make it as simple and professional as possible.

Any help is highly appreciated!

Help With Understanding A Website Building Tutorial...
Ok, well I found this http://www.webdesigntutorials.net/tutorials/flash_tutorials/Flash_MX_tutorials_The_Complete_Tutorial_on_How_to_Build_a_Flash_Site.php tutorial on how to build a Flash Website. I was doing pretty good until Step 23 and it told me to repeat Step 19. I'm confused because if I repeat Step 19 it will mess some things up. I'm still a beginner with Flash, so I may just be missing something easy.

Here is what I have so far from following that tutorial. http://download.yousendit.com/BE7C68226EE2AC58

And if anyone can recommend a better tutorial on building a Flash website, feel free to post it up.

Random Question About Building A Website In Pieces
i have built an architecture website that is very big and have been told to save space by building/uploading in pieces. i have an idea about what it means but was wondering if someone could explain the concept to me. currently my website is 5 separeate movie clips that all contain 20-30 frame animations and each clip only contains a stop frame at the end and buttons to navigate. regardless of my process, the site is way to big and i could use some clarification. thanx.

http://web.mit.edu/jbradd/www

Help Building A Website.. Dupicating Scenes That Won't Work Like The Origional
hi Using Flash MX
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me...I have started to build a front page for a website. I have made a menu bar with sub menus that drop down, now I would like this menu to be on every page of the website... what would be the best way to do this? because i have duplicated the scene and when I tested the scene I clicked on one of the buttons and the page just flashes and does nothing...

Extra Infomation
I made Scene 1 a preloader that loads scene 2 (the front page)

I have linked the main headings using frame labels but I have not yet linked the sub headings to scenes because this won't work

I have decided to make each new page of the web site a different scene... is this wise?

Building A Flash Game? Help Please.
Hi there.

I'm looking into making a flash game, but im not to sure where to start.

The basic idea is to have an person scroll left to right trying to catch things falling from random places from the top of the screen.
There will be two object falling. One object (object 1) should add to the score and the other object (object 2) would be taking away from the score, more or less.

The idea is that if they got to much of either object the game would be over. They user would have to maintain a healthy medium between the two.

Also, the persons graphic would increase if they had two much of object 1 and would decrease when they have object two.

I hope this makes sense. And I hope someone here would be able to help me out with some links to tutorials and such..

Like I said... I've never made a game before. But I am pretty good with flash.

Thanks

Building Screensaver W/ Flash MX?
Does anyone know how to build screensaver using Flash MX? Or if this is possible at all?

P2779

How Ilustrate Building In Flash?
Hi flash fans.
I want now create nice icons for my map in Flash.
I tried my first building last evening, but i am not content with my work.
Please see first try a give me impulse, what is the best way.

http://www.flashmedia.cz/flashkit/ex...icons_test.zip
Jan

Building A Web Site With Flash MX
Can anyone recommend any good books or tutorials on building a complete website using Flash MX? I've found a thousand & one books/tutorials on Flash MX/Action script & making objects follow the mouse around the screen etc.... Yawn! People are going to be sick of that kind of stuff before long aren't they

What I really want, After going through some basics with Sams: Learn Flash MX in 24 hours book, Is something that will demonstrate how to construct complete web sites with Flash MX. The only book I've found so far is the one on the link below but it's had appaling reviews & apparently contains lots of mistakes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...253786-9205213

Cheers, DB

Building A Mp3 Player In Flash
I'm using flash MX.

I'm building a website for a band and was wondering where I can find a tutorial or some kind of help on the actionscripting I would need to make a MP3 player for a few of their songs. Thanks for any help.

Building A Flash Tutorial
Hi all

Dont know if I'm in the right place to pose this question, if not perhaps you could direct me to the correct place.

I am looking to build a Flash movie focussing on a demo of a piece of software. You know the type of thing, the cursor moves across the screen and you see the button depress etc etc.

Does anyone know where I may find a tutorial on building this type of move? I am sure I have seen one before, but cant remember where.

Many thanks in advance.

Colin

Building Flash Websites?
I am a very newbie web designer, well I wouldn't even go as far as to call myself a web designer but i'm starting!!

I am very proficient with photoshop and have gotten to grips with very basic animation in Flash MX. But that was learned by fumbling and just jumping in at the deep end.

I am now working on a site for a friend and want to use as much flash as possible and would like some tips on how to use action scripts or make links.

Other than that the general design principles on a flash website, as in are the individual pages different scenes or seperate animations. how to integrate a preloader etc.

If anybody would care to help I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Ionize

Building A Flash Application
Hello I'm writing to request some advice from a senior flash developer.

I myself am a flash artist/designer, with not much programming/dev experience. I'm starting a flash application project that involves a lot of interactivity. Basically the user will have a menu system of objects to click on, then drag to the central area of the screen and interact with the main object [central focus].

My questions are these:

> i would like some professional advice on how to build this application so its done correctly, meaning taking ever precaution to make sure i have a robust and sturdy interactive application. I already have some thought on this, like maybe use a multi framed page and call to different object using javascript....or build it entirely in a FLASH MX. Could you provide any tips, things to look out for etc.

This is my view of the application [just so you have an idea of what I'm doing].....

I have a Flash MX application that has a central focus character. Surrounding the character are a variety of object/tools that when selected [the mouse cursor turns into the object or tool] and dragged to the character [central area] the specific tool interacts with the character which depending on the tool or object will invoke a particular animation or event. make sense? There will be a variety of other small items involved like a button to create a snap-shop of the character--which will become a pop up window that has the ability to email to the user, well i have a bunch of questions, but like i said prior, I'm pretty sure how this all works, i just need to research, but if you could advice me how to start i'd greatly appreciate it.....

some things i already know......

> a pre-loader definitely
> i need to learn the mouse cursor function

-thanks in advance- roy

1dt Time Building Flash Cd
Hi everyone
I am trying for the 1st time to make a standalone player to be burned and distributed on cd.
I've got a couple of questions that i was hoping people might know the answers to:

is there a way to make the player open automatically as the cd is loaded. for a pc a guess that would be something to do with making it an executable, I'm actally working on a mac

the other question is wether it is possible to open a pdf directly off the cd thru a button in standalone player. i tried getURL but it tries to open explorer instead.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Building My First Flash Site.
good day to all!

first time here by the way,
well im building my first site in flash, ran into a problem tho...i put a stop action in one layer at frame 220. in another layer i put a go to and play (1)..evn though i have no clue about action scripting....therotetically layer 2 should keep looping and layer 1 should stop. problem is both keep looping. if anybody can help...would appreciate it.

How Would You Go About Building Something In Flash That You Created In PS
HI, I create a player skin for a client in PS and was wondering how you guys would do this. Should i try and receate it in flash or bring in parts of it from PS and put it together? Save as a PNG? There are some effects I did in PS that i don't think i can recreate in flash. It needs to load as fast as possible of course.

thanks

[F8] Page Building In Flash
Hi, I've tried multiple different ways to build pages in flash, I've currently just built separate flash files, so that each page would load a new html. as it is now my site I know this isn't a good way of doing it. I know theres a way to build each page inside of one flash document, but everytime i Try it's just a mess. lol. If anyone knows where I can find a tutorial, or if you could just explain for me, Id greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for your help.
~nick

Building A URL In Flash With Dropdowns
Hello everyone,
First post, and apologies if it is in the wrong section.
I have built this ecommerce site called Scent Design.
Because the product is user controlled, I figured out how to do the links to specific fragrance blends using the attribute strings.

For example:
http://www.scentdesign.net/mm5/merch...t_Attri butes[1]:value=vanilla&Product_Attributes[2]:value=vanilla&Product_Attributes[3]:value=all_spice&Product_Attributes[4]:value=musk&Product_Attributes[5]:value=sandalwood

My first question here on Flashkit (I've lurked here for years ) is:
How do I add or 'build' strings onto one URL using dropdown menus in Flash8? I don't need someone to design it for me, but because I'm not an actionscript guy 'yet', I don't really know where to start looking for this specific information.
The ultimate goal is for a flash banner ad that will adjust the URL depending on the choices the user makes in the flash banner.

Thank you all for your time and any wisdom you all wish to share!

[F8] Building A Flash Questionnaire
I want to make a Flash Questionnaire that assigns number values to each answer, adds them up, and then tells the user which product they should use (based on the values added up over 3 or 4 questions) Like, 30> Product "X" is your best solution or 20< Product "Z" is your best solution. Could anyone help me out with this coding? I've been trying to make something work that I found on here but with no avail...

[F8] Building A Forum In Flash
Hi Guys,

I am trying to build a site which will have a flash intro and some other flash elements, but the main thing I want to incorporate is a forum, which the public can access freely and post messages, but I also want to have a member area that is password protected on the forum too.

Just want to get some advice on which would be the best way to do this i.e. is this something that can be created easily in Flash (I use CS3) or would I be better off creating an HTML site and building the forum using another language?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Flash Form Building
What's up guys and gals? I hope I have a pretty simple question for you Flash'perts. I am new to flash and am learning with each project. Here's my question.

I have a simple form that I made with text input fields and have given each of them variable names. The form is linked to a PHP file and sent to a database. All of that is working just fine. How do I get the form not to send if a field is left blank?

The form is tagged as a movie clip with an instance name of "form" and here is the action script I have assigned to the movie clip:

onClipEvent(data){
// show welcome screen
_root.nextFrame();
}

My submit button scipt looks like so:

on (release) {
form.loadVariables("email.php", "POST");
}

Where and how would be the easiest to actually stop the form from being proccessed because of a blank field? I know this has got to be elementary, but I just can't figure it out. Any help at all would be great. I am a semi-tight deadline.

Building A Tsunami In Flash 8
Hi I have been fascinated by the tsunami in the tutorial on this site http://www.actionscript.org/resource...ami/Page1.html

I am having two issues when loading it up in to flash 8.
One is that when the code updates automatically the menu no longer seems to return to its original state properly

The other is putting links on to each menu item.

Could anyone help with the solution to this?

Much appreciated

alexstrong29

Building A Flash Site
Hi there,

Can someone help me please? I have a master.swf file that has an empty movie clip called content to display other external swf files. It is an existing site with multiple scenes that I've have just broken down in smaller chunks (i.e. one swf file per menu item). I have a preloader.swf, home.swf, aboutus.swf etc.

In my master.swf, I am calling the preloader.swf in frame 1 and home.swf in frame 10. My home.swf doesn't load. How do I get it to load after the preloader finishes?

Also in my home.swf, I am not sure how to call the external swf files for each of the buttons. Any help on this too would be much appreciated. I am just getting used to AS2 with books and looking on the net to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Many thanks.

Building First Site With Flash
I have been messing around with Flash for about a year now (off and on). I am working on building my first Flash site.

At first this didnt seem to difficult, but as I go along it is getting more and more complicating.

Does anyone have any suggestions or know of any sites that discuss building entire sites with Flash. I am interested in standards, rules, or practices I should try to follow.

Thanks