RE: FLASH: site architecture

[Tony Indelicato]

Nadia,


Thank you so much ...

 I am going to Separate each category via layers...

and switch from each movie thru use of visibility 0 or 1

...similar to the chapter 1 tutorial in the manual


most of the jpegs will be loaded thru a 'per use'

method as you suggested...this should bring the size 

of the base movie down so it doesn't take forever to load.


again thanks,



Regards,


Tony

3d Artist Ra Studios 


-----Original Message-----

From: nadia [

flashnaloo [dot] net (mailto:flashnaloo [dot] net)

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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:54 PM

To:

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Subject: Re: FLASH: site architecture



hi tony

i guess there are many ways to rome but what i do with my flash-projects is,

i try to bundle information that belonges together. like making a new .swf

for each kategory or even a few .swf for one kategory.


for example if you have a quick look at www.naloo.net. the name at the top,

the navigation and the drawings at the beginning are seperate .swf's. like

that i can easaly show one random image without having to load all of them.

and then each navigation-button calls a new .swf and if you click on "work"

you will see that each example will load a new .swf. not knowing what the

site-visitor will look at i decided to load the details only when the surfer

realy wants the information, making the size of the whole movie quite a bit

smaller and downloading times at the beginning defenitely shorter.


the other thing you might consider is, that graphical elements in flash

normaly dont weight too much, but jpg can get quite heavy. so i would rather

split up the movie in order to controll the jpg-file-sizes.


with an other site i am just working on, i only seperated the jpgs from the

base-movie again for the same reasons as above. if you want to have a look:

www.garda.ch


hope i could help you a little!


bye nadia







Tony Indelicato2.10.2000 17:34

Uhrtindelicatoprismtec [dot] com

> Hello,

> 

> I would like to pose a question to the Flash experts on the list...

> In the past I have done numerous flash movies....but I have never

completed

> an entire site in Flash.

> I am curious as to the most efficient way to do this...

> I am using a lot of Jpegs...and optimizing them in Fireworks.

> I have created a layout for the pages including animation.

> All I really need to do is modify the main page to create the sub-category

> pages.

> I was planning to save the pages as .swf files and use load/unload movie

> actions to load them....but because I am using a lot of the same graphics

> throughout multiple pages

> I wasn't sure if this would be the best route.

> 

> Is there a better way?

> 

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> 

> Regards,

> 

> TOny 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

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