Thanks to all who helped out

[mr bungra]

The website is finally done....thanks to everyone who helped.

Please feel free to look...and critise.

www.moofrecords.co.uk/mondo

[Cota]

The graphics are alittle choppy and the animations run alittle too slow. Tighten those up and you'll be good to go.

[Christine]

I like the general layout and how you have a sample of each song play. I wish more musicians sites did that.

I couldn't read the lyrics. The gray type blended right in with the background. How come the song titles from the lyrics page disappear the second I rollover another link? Usually content stays on the page until another button is clicked. Just thought that was strange. Actually, I notice it happens on all pages. That might get a bit annoying, because if I'm reading and accidentally rollover another link, I have to find the link all over again to continue reading.

Another thing I noticed is that the content from each link doesn't appear in the same manner.... sometimes it appears on the main screen, sometimes on the side... sometimes in a new browser window. That threw me off a bit.

I was also finding myself wanting to see either band photos on the main screen or something band related. The pictures that faded in and out were cool, but maybe some band pics mixed in would work.

I like the music! Congratulations on the release. :)

[mr bungra]

Thanks

[mr bungra]

This is my first site...I only started 3 weeks ago with flash....! Still no excuse for sloppyness.....

I don't know the movies unload...there's no code to tell it to do this....???

I think the grey writing could be a colour...so it easier to see...

I see what you mean about the windows....It's because I wanted to control some of them...and not others..

Thanks for the advice.

Bung

[Christine]

"I don't know the movies unload...there's no code to tell it to do this....???"

What code are you using to get the content that appears on the main screen to load? If you are using loadMovieNum then the content would stay there till something else replaced it on that level, but not when another button is rolled over.

I'm new to this flash stuff too! You're doing good for three weeks!

[mr bungra]

on (release) {

loadMovie("http://www.mysite.co.uk/folder/mask.swf","maskholder");
}

This is the code for my movies


!!!????

[Christine]

if you load your movies on a level higher than level 0, they will stay ontop until another movie is loaded that uses the same level. The code looks like this;

on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("whatis.swf", 50);
}

once another movie is loaded using level 50, it will take the place of the previous one. Doing it this way will ensure that your movies won't disappear when another button is rolled over. Did this help?

[mr bungra]

that's all good...but how do I get those movies into the specific positions...which is why i used the loadmov....it goes into a specific place.

[Christine]

the way I do it is to create a scene from the main fla to use to position the movie. Then when I have it done, I copy and paste the whole thing into a new fla. Publish it, then call it onto a level higher than 0 using loadMovieNum. Does this make sense? You don't want to make a site with a whole bunch of scenes, but you can use them temporarily to line things up.

If anyone else is reading this and knows more, or a better way, please contribute!

[mr bungra]

yes...good idea, the movie clip one though is so much easier....and is it less bytes ?

would welcome some discourse from anyone else

thanks though i'll look into it.

[Christine]

the two methods are really similar, I don't think that the size would change. It's the same content, just loaded differently. I used this method on this site www.associatesinart.com that you saw posted in the site check section. Once the intro is finished the main page loads. This is the base page that I use to line up the others. When you click on a link, the current content disappears and the new content replaces it. But when you mouse over the links, the current content doesn't disappear. My base page, with the links, is on level 0, and all of the content that loads in loads in on level 50. You can use any level above 0 as long as you keep the same level # for each movie.