best practice - flash and browser navigation

[bonathon]

i'm making a webpage in flash and am starting on the intros and outros. i was about to start on a tutorial found on kirupa.com (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/transitions.htm) but realized i had a couple questions:

1. is there a good way to make flash webpages that can still use the browser's navigation back and forward? i usually just make each page a flash file and use getURL on the buttons. i'm still new to this though and didn't know if there was a better way.

2. if the best way is to make each page a flash file, how does this affect the intros and outros? is there a specific tutorial i need to follow for that or could i still use the same ideas on kirupa's?

3. is there a good tutorial out there for intros and outros for movie clips (not swfs) or is it the same idea?

thanks for the input.
b.

[Ricod]

There's a tutorial for using the browser's back button here : http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/Enabling_a_back_button_within_flash/index.shtml

I'm not sure what you mean with mc intros and outros though ...

[bonathon]

thanks. i saw that link yesterday after i posted. new to this site.

anyway what i meant by intros and outros is basically an introduction animation and an exiting animation. (sorry i saw the expression a couple times and thought that's what it was called) for example when you click on a button to a page there's a quick intro animation and probably a stop(); where you want the animation to stop. then you click on another button but before going to that page there's an exiting animation before the next page's intro animation. i hope i'm more clear this time. i just didn't know how most people built these into their pages...

[Ricod]

Well, I know what an intro and an outro is, but just wasn't sure what kind you meant.

Anyway, you can maintain all your in- and outros having a single Flashfile webpage while keeping the backbutton support. Actually, I think you can only have outros with the backbutton this way. If you use seperate pages, you can't have an outro when you push the backbutton, right ? The previous page is immedeately being put back.