Ack! Need help on Flash menu!
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OK. Here's the Flash file draft of the website so far. Here's the lingering questions:
1. When I get to the content menu, how do I get it to stop and only display certain frames (I put each type of content in its own layer), wait for the user to click a button, but not stop the whole Flash file? Do I need to add the content as their own little movies? - this part was confusing in the handout
2. I can't test if the embedded links work because it don't stop...(Could I make them have some sort of rollover animation to make it more obvious that they are hyperlinks?)
3. When I reduce the logo down to the top left, the whiskers on the cat don't reduce down so it looks like mustaches in the smaller version...I tried changing the line width to no avail.
4. Can I make one image have many image mapped like links? (aka on the homepage, it'd be cool if you could click on the images on the right to go to the content.)
Next steps, exporting video to a Quicktime format small enough to play on the web and plugging it into a blank HTML file to play from Flash site.
Next next steps...maybe add more photos in Flash menu (using blocks created in Photoshop with photos inside?), making the navigation buttons more animated, making a PSA video for youth and a PSA shorter version of the current video. Oh and I've got to eventually edit down the current full length video, incorporating input from MIT and ICCN folks and new video/photos I hope to gather in the next couple months.
OK. Here's the Flash file draft of the website so far. Here's the lingering questions:
1. When I get to the content menu, how do I get it to stop and only display certain frames (I put each type of content in its own layer), wait for the user to click a button, but not stop the whole Flash file? Do I need to add the content as their own little movies? - this part was confusing in the handout
2. I can't test if the embedded links work because it don't stop...(Could I make them have some sort of rollover animation to make it more obvious that they are hyperlinks?)
3. When I reduce the logo down to the top left, the whiskers on the cat don't reduce down so it looks like mustaches in the smaller version...I tried changing the line width to no avail.
4. Can I make one image have many image mapped like links? (aka on the homepage, it'd be cool if you could click on the images on the right to go to the content.)
Next steps, exporting video to a Quicktime format small enough to play on the web and plugging it into a blank HTML file to play from Flash site.
Next next steps...maybe add more photos in Flash menu (using blocks created in Photoshop with photos inside?), making the navigation buttons more animated, making a PSA video for youth and a PSA shorter version of the current video. Oh and I've got to eventually edit down the current full length video, incorporating input from MIT and ICCN folks and new video/photos I hope to gather in the next couple months.
posted by Danielle @ 12:00 AM
1 Comments:
At 11:51 AM,
Nettrice said…
My first suggestion is that you test the current movie which saves it as a .swf and provide a link via this blog instead of the .fla file. Many folks won't have Flash software but they can download the free player to view the project-in-progress.
Next, you should copy and paste different parts of the project into different scenes. Ex. scene 1 is frames 1-140, scene 2 is 141-157. Add a stop action to the end of each scene and program the buttons to link to the other content.
You should create different Flash documents for the other pages of your site. Ex. about.fla, research.fla, etc. The buttons on the page will link to these pages (as .swf files).
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