macromedia flash sitedesign: I have a web site that is 100% flash http://www.rcgof.org/firedept when it
comes up as you can see the center section is always the same starting flash
..swf. If you click on the various buttons other .swf files load in the center
section of this page. What I need to know is can I create a link on another web
site that when clicked will open up my site but with something other than the
initial screen in the center. Can I tell flash from a link to load with
something other than the initial page running?

Bill

yes you can. like http://www.rcgof.org/firedept?section=page

How do I know what to put in the ?section=page after the link? I'm not sure to
use Flash/JS to check for that URL argument. Could you possibly dumb up the
answer a bit for me, I'm not familiar with this area of Flash...

Bill

You create your own name/value pairs that make sense to you. I used section as
the variable name and page as the value. So if you have 3 sections (home,
contact, portfolio) then you can use ?section=home, ?section=contact or
?section=portfolio. Then in Flash you use logic to check what section is needed
like

if(section = "home"){
gotoAndStop("home");
}else if(section=="contact"){
........
}

sorry i suck at explanations but i try