flash (macromedia): Ok guys I have no formal experience with flash or web design at all. Heck I'm
still what you call a hunt and pecker on the keyboard. I have played around
with flash a bit and put up my website. The problem I'm having is the top
banner seems to bounce every now and then. I have looked at the placement of
it in every frame and the x and y coordinats don't seem to change. Does anyone
know why this does this? Sorry if this is a stupid question I don't know what
you can do by just looking at a site but was hoping someone might be able to
shed some light on things for me. Thanks to everyone on this board, the ideas
and tips have really helped me with my site.

My site is www.slanted-media.com

Please go easy on the critique I'm very new at this whole computer thing. I'm
a film maker not a web designer.

"360boarder" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in
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A word of warning... your site is at least 2MB... that's pretty huge! Try
to cut it down.

As for the jumping banner... if you're sure it's not the placement of the
symbol changing, then I would suggest it's the symbol itself.

Are you sure you converted the graphic to a symbol before you created
your motion tween? If you didn't... then it can cause the jumping that
you're seeing there.

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Thanks guys.
Karl I didn't convert it to a symbol as I didn't motion tween it. It is
seperate pictures and i have moved the light bar across it manually. I guess
things like motion tweens would greatly reduce my file size huh? I used tweens
for the flying in components at the start, but I couldn't get it to tween a
mask layer of the image that i created in photoshop.
I'll look and see what i can do to shrink the size of it. If you have any
ideas let me know.

Thanks again

If the image is a JPG or other raster format then you're right. I had this
problem for ages before I found out that turning it into a movie clip and
set the opacity of it to anything between 95 and 100% (mostly) does the
trick.
Something to do with how flash interprets bitmap data.

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