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Flash 101

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  • 23-08-2006 10:29pm
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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    It's a simple story. A friend promised someone else that he'd make a website for another friend. I said I'd give him a hand if he was stuck.

    It seems he's now stuck, with 48 hours to go before he delivers the site.

    So he bought and downloaded one of these pre-made flash sites which look great but need work to personalise them. I have all I need as there there's a web-dept at work where I can grab a copy of Flash and other Macromedia apps but while I may know HTML, everything else scares me !

    This is the site he bought :

    http://templates.bigwebmaster.com/flash_templates/yzxvw-flash-site-10243.html


    Now I loaded Flash but it appears that everything is frame by frame as opposed to being objects. In the esample I see the name 'rockband' and I want to replace that with a different name but it looks like I can't just change it once for all the frames ?

    So....

    seeing as I have time to kill until Sunday will I figure out enough in 24 hours to make it worth my/his while or do I just go to bed? :)


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    Gordon
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    It's pretty tricky to understand if we can't see the source, which you can't put up obviously.

    What is the 'Rock Band' comprised of - is each frame a frame of vector images or is it the text with the embedded font? I would hope that the rock band text would be a small movie clip on it's own which you can copy and edit and "swap" for each frame.

    Incidentally, that template certainly will take a while to personalise. It takes enough time simply to open it on 56k dialup. If they haven't made it easy to customise by creating single movie/graphic objects to alter on your own it'll be over the 48 hour time limit (Sunday?) to complete unless you really know your flash and have nothing else to do.


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Gorden, at this stage I couldn't care less about someone I trusted (i.e. you) getting their hands on the source just to give me a professional opinion :)

    IMO it's a "frame a frame of vector images" meaning that it's going to take days to modify.

    I think if I take his code in HTML, stick in some fancy javascript it'll do until I figure out the flash bit :)


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