To explain what I am looking for, My plan is to build a website(for fun and possibly even showcasing, assuming it's decent) for learning purposes.
Because this is to learn, I am planning on using my own graphics, own sounds, everything made by myself. I know this will be time consuming and/or hard, but there is no real time constraint on it. I love to learn, and this is a way to do it. My plan is, if I can get good enough at it, and actually enjoy doing it, possibly designing flash sites for others as well.
Now then, to exactly what I am planning on doing with the site, and what is included.
Purpose : This will be a gaming site, somewhat like a gaming community. The link to the regular HTML version is in my signature, and it's horrible.
Things to include :
1)I am going to add a few different links, hopefully on an interactive navigation bar. The links will be "About Us," "Forums," "Games," and "Downloads," at least for now. I will possibly add more later. After all, this is just a starting project.
2)I definitely need the ability to add pictures and/or video(things like direct embedded links from Youtube and whatnot). The pictures can be hosted on the domain, so that should not be an issue.
3)Introduction screen. This will be used as a loader, saying like "3% Loaded" up through 100%. This would come up before the site, to ensure that it is fully loaded before you are actually able to view any of the pages.
4)Of course, the information. I should be able to do the formatting myself, assuming that I can get everything together well.
Now on to what I need help with.
1)I want to do the entire site in flash(I think....). Most templates have the information in picture files and are just copied to the flash video. I would much rather use the in-program text editor to do the text, so that I can change it easier.
2)I want the intro movie to allow you to "Enter," taking you into the site itself. After this, I want it to load the first page, with the navigation bar, and then allow you to click on any nav bar links to take you to their respective pages. At the moment, sounds and roll-over effects are not needed. Possibly in the future.
Now I do know this will be very taxing on bandwidth, but it will not be a highly visited site or anything, so it should not be too bothersome.
So, on to the big question. Does anyone here know of any good tutorials or books(Paid or free) that will help to learn this information? I know this post was pretty long but hopefully it helps you to understand exactly what I am looking for, and how I am planning on using it. So far every book I've read/every tutorial fails to entertain my needs.
Thank you for reading this, and hopefully one of you can assist me!
If anyone else happens to need tutorials or books on anything Flash related, you can post here as well, and if I know of something that would help you, or anyone else does, maybe they could assist you as well.
