Hello All;
I am very familier with website design however, this is my first attempt at
designing a website completely in flash. I have learned quite a bit over the
last couple of weeks playing with this project and really like the abilities
and functionality of flash. Here is my major problem which I have tried to
resolve several ways. The issue was how to have multiple pages. At first
attempt, I thought I can make html pages and put a seperate flash movie for
each page (i.e. home, contact us, ect. ect.) The only way that works is with
using frames and it is very unorganized. The second method I tried was using
scenes. Scenes are either too complex for me or I missed something in the
translation from the tutorials, so I abandoned that method as well. Finally,
what I am using now is Frames. Frames seam to work well but here is my major
problem. So I make a frame called contact and it is the contact page ofcourse.
When I go to that frame it has everything from the Home/index frame; I then
delete the stuff and somehow I was able to do this with some of the frames but
others when I delete the things they get deleted from all the frames. Anyone
have any idea what I am doing wrong here. I would really like to make this site
completely in flash and not resort to any html if I can help it. Anyways,
please let me know if what I am doing is possible or just a pipe dream?
Thanks in advance
Tamer:confused;
Rob Dillon - 09 Jul 2008 15:21 GMT
Using frames is a good method for building segments of your site. When you
place something on the stage, it will occupy one or more frames in the
timeline. The first frame will be a keyframe, that's what that filled black dot
in the frame means. If you want something to occupy say 10 frames in your
movie's timeline, then you can go to the eleventh frame and add an empty
keyframe. This will end section of the timeline that contains that particular
content.
You can also use keyframes to create animation. You can find you more about
that in the online help.
You may also want to consider using movieclips to contain the material for any
given section of your movie. Look at some of the tutorials that came with
Flash. They may help to explain some of these concepts. Also try out the
material at http://www.gotoandlearn.com.