macromedia flash sitedesign: Hello. I'm fairly new to all this so sorry if some of this seems a bit basic to
all of you but I'm having trouble getting started with my website.

What is the best way to set it all up? I have about 30 pages I want to put on
it, each with its own individual animation etc.

So is it best to;

make each page in different frames then set up actions to jump frames?

make each page in a number of different scenes then set up actions to jump
scenes?

make each page as a seperate movie?

or none of the above because theres a much easier way you wally!????

What is the regular way to layout all your pages?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Johnny.

All those ways are acceptable it just depends on what your site is how much
information etc etc...

If your sites well planned and target audience good connections then you could
do jumping to frames with a prob

Most of the time you will proberly want to load an external swf tho

I thought I had it sussed but when I went to preview it it took ages to export
the movie, is that because I have too much on it and it will run slow when its
published?

The way I did it was to make a scene for each section of the site. So the
"portfolio" section was in a scene called "portfolio" then just had my buttons
pointing to those different scenes. Is that ok or would it be easier to load an
external swf?

With doing this will it still run smoothly? So if i click a button and it
loads the external swf will you be able to tell its done this or will it look
like its all part of the same movie?

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.

if it took ages to export the file, you either:
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This is how I would design the site: create a main movieclip for navigation
and the outline for the site. Then when a user clicks to open an area of the
site, open a external swf (loaded inside of the main mc) so that the user only
downloads what he/she needs to.

usually is better to use different keyframes for diff sections instead of
different scenes, i have tried both and flash responds faster to go to a diff
frame in the same scene than to go to a diff scene all togueter, what i usually
do is set different keyframes in your scene and label them according to each
section :
main, section1 section 2 section 3 etc.
and what i do is have the actions on the menu buttons to go to each different
labeled frame of that movie and on that frame i actually put the code to load a
different swf into that movie that way your site will load very quick since its
only loading the initial navigation and layout not the entire thing.
that way as the user goes to the different sections this sections will load
when needed not all at once.

Thanks for all your help, thats superb. I gave it a quick go last night and it all worked, much better than the way I was trying to do it.

Cheers

When your in flash open you move press CTRL ENTER this will preview your move
then at the top press simulate download and choose and simulated download speed
and this will show you if your best to load sep moves diffrent key frame or
preloaders because it really just matters on your indv website