FLASH: Flash Site Test & Questions

[Dave]

Hey all...


This is my first post but I've been reading on and off for a couple of

months (just becoming more frequent lately) and know there are some very

knowledgeable people out there on this list. I just finished taking a 10

week night course in Flash (& another in Dreamweaver) at the end of May

and joined up with a good friend, Mick Szirmay, a graphics artist to do

his site.  I'd really like your "Collective and Brutally Honest" opinion

of it.(Do I know what I'm in for?<G>)  It has both a static and flash

sections. It is a bit large on some pages due to graphic content, but we

did not want to sacrifice the quality of the images. Mick did most of

the Flash with a little training and tweaking from me. <G>  The flash

site incorporates the normal HTML pages in it.


A couple of things of concern...


The equipment being used with the following problems - Flash 3 (Flash 4

on order) with Power Mac 8600/300 & OS 8.6 - Mick's old (he got a new

G3) & my new machine (I buy his cast offs) :-), Power Computing

PowerBase 200 & OS 8.1 - my old machine.


When any of you have built a Flash movie, did it ever insert a sound all

by itself? We have this problem with the movie. The first sound was very

timely and excellent for the moment (an intuitive program?) but not used

anywhere in the movie (It was in the library, but not placed in any

scene). We did some minor tweaks (button links,etc) to a totally

different scene and it changed the sound to a different one but a little

later in the scene. A glitch? We did add the first sound in because it

worked well.


Another problem we have had is with Netscape 4.5/ IE 4.5 and the Flash 3

plug-in? The movie would crash (not the browser), just jump from the

main scene to the next scene part way in and stop. Not all the time but

enough to cause concern. This would happen downloading it from the

website or off the hard drive. This has happened on Macs and PCs

(website test only for PC). Installed the latest plug-in (Flash 4) and

it is fixed. What's up?


Please have a look and tell me what you think... (This site is a first

for both of us so remember be honest as this is a learning process!!)


The address is http://www.members.home.net/szirmay


Thanks


Dave



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