Re: FLASH: New and question

[Marc Hoffman]

Hi Laura,

>

>www.leasingone.com

>www.fbtrust.com

>


These are very attractive sites.  I think the navigation schemes are

effective and intuitive, although as I'm sure you know, the moving spheres

are in very common use now for Flash navigation.


I'd recommend you speed up the transitions.  Although they're pretty, these

are commercial sites and I would prioritize speed of access over pretty

transitions, since visitors are often trying to get business done efficiently.


In the first site, some of the elements shift position accidentally when

rolling from one sphere to another; not sure what the problem is, but if

need be you can learn to use the inspector tool to find the exact

coordinates of a graphic and register its other instances to the same

coordinates.


Also, you had a sphere with a gradient ( I think in the second URL) that

had a sort of a ring inside it. Sometime, play with the gradient editor (in

the palette that shows up when you click on the paint bucket and then on

the color swatch); you can make this smoother.



>Both are commercial sites, if that's important to say. I'm still having

>trouble putting MC's on buttons to get animated buttons. The first 

>layer of the clip works fine, but it doesn't seem to show the next layer.


Not sure what you mean by "next layer." Please clarify?



>Can you have more than one layer for an animated button?


If the clip contains layers, and works as a clip, I believe it should work

when dropped into, say, the "over" frame of the button. Not sure if you can

stack multiple clips in the "over" frame of the button; if that's what

you're doing, try adding one at a time and also try testing the clips by

themselves in the main timeline to see where things are failing to work.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>Laura Mollett

>



Marc Hoffman

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