Hey everyone, I began making my website with Firworks, and Dreamweaver. But I really want to know how to make a website with Flash. I understand with this program you make 'movies'. I have done some tutorials too, and I get that. But what I want to know is, if the content in the different pages (like home, contact, links etc.) have to be one movie? Or do you use other programs. Like this site below, it's a beautiful site of the Luny Tunes (reggeaton music artistgroup): Luny Tunes But is the whole site a 'Movie', or is there some HTML in it as well, like tables to putyou content in. I can't find any begin tutorials where to start if you want to make a site. Only tutorials for like, photogallery thumbnails, tweening etc. Can anyone Help Me?

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In this case, thereīs no html... is a movie (or more than one) as you said. Probably this site is combining flash with php or other dinamic languages to update with the news, etc, but no html, I think. Anyway itīs not the kind of site that you should try for the first time. You have to learn first the basics of flash, the frames, interpolations, scenes, clips, etc.

You can do an entire flash site in one movie (swf), but you can also work with scenes or with the loadmovie command, putting a movie in the background, and others first, etc. Itīs up to you.

Flash sites are cool, but they take a lot of time and remember that some people might not see them if donīt have the plugin, etc.

There must be a lot of tutorials, but I prefer not to give you any because I didnīt learn that way and donīt know if they really works. Maybe someone else would help.

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@Sprnknwn thats mess reguardless if they work or note depends on the user.

Well besides alot of programming experiance you need graphic experiance to to design flash sites as well, some people use basic stuff like rollovers and sound bytes.

What I recommedn Nani is go to www.pixel2life.com/ they have an extensive list of tutorials on how to design in flash. even though its good experiance to have I choose not to do it myself.

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I'd advise against making your whole site a movie because it'll make it very hard for search engine spiders to index it (ie no rankings).

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Yes it could be very hard or imposibile for search engines to rank your site, but google can find text and other stuff in flash site... i dont know for the other search engines but i readed that google do.
Its better to have html as the main site then add flash stuff that you like to your site... like logo, menu...
If you didnt work with flash never before, then better use some existing flash template on the net for web page and then edit what you can. That way you will learn a little flash and get what you wont in easy way.

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With flash you can have one movie load up other movies, or have one movie load up text or html files. But, the kind of HTML elements the flash player can translate are limited, mostly text formatting and links. Also, the newer versions of flash can now load certain image files the same way it loads movies. As for your site being indexed on search engines, I'd suggest making an HTML version and a flash version.

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I understand you gotta gave some experience with Flash. And I know how Flash works. I have done basic tutorials etc. Pixel 2 life is a good site, I know... But anyways. If I want to make my website ...it should be one movie I understand, or it would be better if I did this in one movie (so maybe I can create a different scene for each individual page I want to create? and then link between scenes, (I have read an tutorial for this)...
Well thanks for the help everybody!!!
Truefusion, thanks for the tip. I understand not everyone can view Flash sites If they don't have the plugin.. and shockwave etc..

Thanks again, and please, if anyone else has some tips for me as a Flash beginner please post! thanks!!!

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Make parts in flash, then in html or php whatever copy links to it. but save it was a gif i think. Ill check again.

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Creating individual scenes for each "page" of your flash site, may be convenient to you, but may also increase filesize, which can be annoying for dial-up users. You may wanna try making a template flash movie, and have buttons load external files into empty movieclips in your flash movie, using actionscript.

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Okay, that sounds better! After all, I actually made a template in one scene, made buttons, but wondered how to link to the content...is that what you meant?! Using action script to load external files (the content I want) into empty movieclips?

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