Jody
10-11-2002, 07:51 PM
I'm very new to flash. Most graphical things I've done have been with photoshop. There seem to be plenty of tutorials here, but I want to know if I'm going to get in over my head with a project I have in mind:
Last year I made a site for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. You could register and pick the teams that you thought would win (This of course is just for fun, no money involved... I'm not going to spend time on a site just to get arrested for betting on college sports). Anyways, I did the
site in PHP and standard HTML with a MySQL backend. Since PHP doesn't seem to support caching, every page reload was taking its toll on my server with many many queries to the database. This year, I want to use Flash for choosing teams, and JSP to make stuff happen with MySQL as the database again. I know Java, and have a little experience with the web side of it (what other side is there outside of the classroom?), but I don't know
where to start with flash to get to where I want to be.
What things do I need to know before I jump on this project? Basically I just want to replace drop down html boxes with something cool but not too extravagant. The drop down boxes dynamically changed as you filled out the bracket, so it would be a legal pick. I would think that any further flash stuff I would know by then, but if not I can ask here again:) Which tutorials should I DEFINETLY understand, and what are some others that you might reccomend to accompany them?
Thanks a bunch
Jody
Last year I made a site for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. You could register and pick the teams that you thought would win (This of course is just for fun, no money involved... I'm not going to spend time on a site just to get arrested for betting on college sports). Anyways, I did the
site in PHP and standard HTML with a MySQL backend. Since PHP doesn't seem to support caching, every page reload was taking its toll on my server with many many queries to the database. This year, I want to use Flash for choosing teams, and JSP to make stuff happen with MySQL as the database again. I know Java, and have a little experience with the web side of it (what other side is there outside of the classroom?), but I don't know
where to start with flash to get to where I want to be.
What things do I need to know before I jump on this project? Basically I just want to replace drop down html boxes with something cool but not too extravagant. The drop down boxes dynamically changed as you filled out the bracket, so it would be a legal pick. I would think that any further flash stuff I would know by then, but if not I can ask here again:) Which tutorials should I DEFINETLY understand, and what are some others that you might reccomend to accompany them?
Thanks a bunch
Jody