macromedia flash sitedesign: Hi, all!

Firstly, I wanted to thank some of the users here for their help. You gave me great advice on creating rippling text, as well as using Swish. Your posts helped so much! I've been in such a panic trying to educate myself on Flash and get a really high-tech site going for my client :)

My client loves the sliding menu at this website:
http://www.gucci.com/index2.html

For her site the menu would be much thinner, and it would need to drop down from the top of the page instead of the side. But the basic smooth sliding and the semi-transparency are both things she would really like to see. I have no idea where to begin, and whether the task would be easier in Flash or Swish. Any advice would be so very much appreciated!

Sara

OMG!!!!!! THATS LIKE THE SAME AS MY SITE!!!!!!!!!!!! only it works better :(

ohhhhhh :(:(:(

Well, im not redoing my one now......

I can tell you how they did it though, wel, I can tell you how I did my little menue thing.

Just have a dark grey bar on the side of the stage, and make it a button, and then on the over frame of the button make it a movie clip. Add a keyframe and put a stop action on it (On the first key from there is only the rectangle. Then, lets say on the 15th frame, add a key frame and make that same bar wider, to the width you want, then add a stop action. then, make a new layer above it (which wil have the lighter rectangle thing) and on the 5th frame add it, and then add a new key frame in the 20th frame and legthen it to the desiered length.

Next, get out of the button, and addin visible buttons around the rectangle, one saying, gotoAndPlay(2), and the other saying gotoAndplay(1)

And, ive just thought about it and I have changed my mind, dont make the rectangle a button, but a movie clip instead, and then on the 20th frame, add you buttons.

Hope this helps, and isnt too confusing.

Im not very happy with this.......I thought I had an original design....

If you are cnfused, nfusion@nuclearfusion.com.au

Cya

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Quite honestly Giles i wouldn't worry too much about it - i *think* it was
Eintien (sp?) that said something along the lines of "there's no such thing
as being original, only copying from obscure sources..."

I first saw that Gucci design nearly 2 years ago mind you... :)

}`¬P

well, I have decided to redo my site any way :)