flash actionscript: HI,

I am drawing a close on my first flash site which i am really pleased with. I
have one concern though.
I have a page that has 20 links in a list component. When one is pressed, the
information displays in the main window, along with a picture.

AS there are 25pics, and text for each option, i am noticing my flash site is
growing to nearly a meg.. which in my mind seems unasceptable, especially for
dial up users.

SO my question is.... what size should a whole self contained flash site be???
on average, and is there another way i could maybe externally present the
information of the 20 options in my main window?

Any help would be greatful

Thanks

Steve

I would suggest you leave all of the images out of the flash file. The data
should be fine. As for a size. It all depends. I have a large site built in
flash that has a half meg of info, but it is loading most of the info after the
user is occupied with other things.

As far loading the images, make an array. And load them in order. If the user
goes to a page that doesn't have its picture loaded, place a loading movie in
its place and remove that image from the middle of the array and put it at the
front. When the currently loading image is done that image will start. This
means that even on a 26.4k connection like I am on (poor line quality) the
viewer only has to wait for one maybe two pictures.