Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Site Design / June 2007

first off, i'd start with putting in a preloader for you site, it was just a
brown background with a white box for about 4 minutes, and thats on high speed
LAN connection.

im not sure what buttons youre talking about, if you mean the 'Artist Lineup',
then the top one opens in new tab, the rest try and open in a pop-up, which
gets blocked with my browser settings... ok, it appears all your buttons open
in a pop-up besides the top in Artist Lineup.. so thats probably the problem,
most will have a pop-up blocker on which makes them think it's not working..  
what is the script for your buttons?

It's a nice website. I can see you've done alot of work on the artistic
side. But every button seems to open a new window with a seperate movie in
it & they all seem to take ages to load and I have a fairly fast cable
connection.

Take my word, your visitors will soon become disenchanted with it. Better to
have an under construction page I would have thought, until you get it all
working a bit more smoothly.

Lots of work needed optimising the finished file sizes & better to use
loadMovie to load your movie clips into different levels in the flash
player, than keep opening new browser windows.

Hope that helps. All the answers are in the Help files.

Thank you for your help so much! I am still learning. I do not know how to make
my pages change in the same page and not pop-ups. Below is my actionscript for
the glowing ticket info button on the home page.

Also, I would like to keep the artist buttons as pop-ups, I just don't know
how to include in the script to be only 819x790 in size and w/o a menu bar and
scroll bar. Below is the Action script for the artist Lee Brice.

Thank you!

//TICKET INFO BUTTON//
function Ticketinfo(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    var targetURL:URLRequest = new
        URLRequest("http://www.westcoastbroadcasting.com/jugfest/ticketinfo.htm");
    navigateToURL(targetURL);
}
ticket_info.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,Ticketinfo);

//LEE BRICE BUTTON//
function leebrice(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    var targetURL:URLRequest = new
        URLRequest("http://www.westcoastbroadcasting.com/jugfest/leebrice.htm");
    navigateToURL(targetURL);
}
lee_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,leebrice);

for the preload issue, you need to use bytesloaded and bytestotal, you can make
a new scene and place that scene before the other scene, the create a preloaded
that looks to see if bytesloaded == bytestotal, then it advances to the next
scene.. you can google flash CS3 preloader and im sure you will find some
script. i'd provide it, but i havn't worked with AS3 yet, im just going off the
live docs.

about the buttons.. are all your buttons coded the same?

Thanks I'll Check out the preloader.

Yes all my buttons are coded the same.  I would really like to make the pages
to change in the same window. I thought all I would have to do is use  "_self"  
in place of "new"  in my actionscript and it did not work.

where i place "_blank" is where you would place "_self".. self will open in current frame, blank opens a new window

ok I'll do that then. Thank you!

Thank you for your help. You have been very patient and helpful! Have a great night.

you're welcome. good luck!