# Creating Website on Flash 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [March 2, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801 "2003-03-02T23:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flashhawaii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@flashhawaii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashhawaii)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/1 "2003-03-02T23:48:55Z")
I currently need help on how to start up a flash website. I have no idea how to approach such a project (I have all the content). So if someone could e-mail me at [mark\_labrador@hotmail.com](mailto:mark_labrador@hotmail.com), and give me some tips or instructions on how to start such a project I’d appreciate it. 🙂 ~MAL& ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/2 "2003-03-02T23:53:04Z")
aloha flashhawaii: up the top of this page, there is a box. Search in there for full flash site. If you have any questions ask away! Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I ka Pono Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/3 "2003-03-03T00:00:40Z")
Thank you for you reply, I do have some questions: Which box at the top of this page? I also have Flash 5 and the only tutorial that Kirupa offers is for Flash MX, so I’m lost right now because this is actually my second time trying to create a flash site (My first was a failure:\*( ). If you can give me a short tutorial and I already know about frames and layers, I just don’t know when to convert something to a graphic, movie, or button symbol. I really don’t see the difference so this is bewildering me. e-mail: [mark\_labrador@hotmail.com](mailto:mark_labrador@hotmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/4 "2003-03-03T00:09:08Z")
MX isn’t that different from Flash 5, except for GUI (I am over-simplifying this of course), however I understand your misgivings. to answer your questions create a graphic - forget this exists - it doesn’t decrease file size, and you can’t control it once it’s created. button - up to and including Flash 4, you could only create a button if you wanted a rollover, and hit state. I still use them, because I was trained in Flash 2. Most new users only use movie clips. movie clips - the most versitile of all symbols. It can be coded to act like a button, or an animation, or both, or more, since an instance name can be called within ActionScript to manipulate that particular timeline. Tip: if you are going to use a graphic (vector art or image, whatever) more than once, or you want to manipulate it in some way (tint, alpha, timeline) then make it a movie clip. hope this helps, Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/5 "2003-03-03T00:16:57Z")
Hi, I’m not that familiar with flash yet, so I need to ask: What is a GUI? Thank You ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-website-on-flash-5/14801/6 "2003-03-03T00:32:54Z")
Graphical User Interface Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif)