Making flash sites

[craigquik]

Hi

Already had a search in the forums for this but couldn't find anything on it.

I'm about to embark on making a Flash site - I've done a couple before for college but this one is for a band.

What I want to know is, for a site intro, is it best to make this in a different scene, or just use the preceding frames to the main site? If the scene option is the one to go for, how do I tie it up together?

Thanks for any help!

Craig

[spnwebdesign]

i dont know if this helps,

but when im creating a flash site i usually make the intro a symbol and then let it play in the first scene of the movie.

Then , within the symbolhave it to play the main movie when it is clicked.

Hope that helps

[craigquik]

Hmm, ok, so make the intro sequence a movie clip? Can you make a 120 frame movie clip?

You got any examples of this?

[Mack]

depends what your intro is doing. If this is gonna be alot of animation / etc. use a seperate swf. If its simple, put it into a movieclip on the first frame. and have it play the time line when its down.

movieclips have timelines just like the main timeline.

[gospastic]

never use scenes - when the Flash player moves from scene to scene transitional features such as looping movieclips and streaming sounds jump like a flea in a car park surrounded by robots.

either jump to other frames, load/unload movieclips or bring in seperate SWF's like mack said.

[craigquik]

Originally Posted by gospastic

never use scenes - when the Flash player moves from scene to scene transitional features such as looping movieclips and streaming sounds jump like a flea in a car park surrounded by robots.

either jump to other frames, load/unload movieclips or bring in seperate SWF's like mack said.

Sounds like what was up with one of the other things i did. So best policy is to use frames in the same scene. Sorted. Cheers!

Mack, what's the deal with putting an swf into a flash movie? Would you just import it as normal?!

[craigquik]

Also, something you guys may be albe to help me with: this site is going to have to be updated form time to time with gig info and news etc - I think I'm ok with dynamic text, but does anyone know a way of making a photo album that can be updated in a similar way? I.e by someone who doesn't have Flash installed.

Basically they want to be able to update the text and if possible, add new images without using flash.

[Mack]

Ill assume this is AS 2.0

You can just loadmovie("folder/target.swf", "loadingmovieclip_mc") would be the simplest answer.