**Author:**  [@flipper2099](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flipper2099)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/1 "2003-02-26T01:55:41Z")
I succesfully completed my first Flash tutorial at [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com). I wanted a preloader for a site I would be doing for a student group. However, I am now stumped as to what to do with the .FLA file \>\_\<
embeded the code using Dreamweaver MX, and It didn’t come out the way I wanted at all.
My goal is to have the preloader come into effect, and once the site is loaded, for it to disappear and show my site. I don’t have any clue on how to achieve this effect.
Here is the tutorial I followed [\link\]. I am guessing I made the wrong type of preloader ?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/2 "2003-02-26T14:58:04Z")
thats a good tut man!
Why dont you post ur file here, so i can have a look at it 😉
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/3 "2003-02-26T18:18:45Z")
Hope this helps.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/4 "2003-02-26T21:09:29Z")
I don’t get it… whats the problem?
The preloader never goes away because you tell it to gotoAndPlay frame 3, but according to this .fla, frame 3 does not exist. You need to start whatever content you have on frame 3 and up.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/5 "2003-02-26T21:12:25Z")
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Ok I noticed that, so I add a 3rd frame to the actions layer, and then embed the link to my page (?), what actions should I enter. I am clueless as to how it would load my web page.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/6 "2003-02-26T21:15:05Z")
It doesn’t load your web page, it loads your .swf file.
The tutorial teaches you how to make a preloader for the .swf file for which the code is contained in. So it will preloader the content of that .swf file and not another one. So starting on frame 3 you would put any of your Flash content that belongs in that file.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/7 "2003-02-26T21:20:27Z")
:sleep:
Ok, I am no where near the level it takes to build a site entirely from Flash, so this preloader is useless for now.
Is there a preloader tutorial someone could link to for me, I would like to preload an html site, here is an example site attached…
(images are down)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/8 "2003-02-26T22:50:37Z")
Yeah, there are Javascript ways of preloading… check out…
[http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage.htm](http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage.htm)
[http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage2.htm](http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/preloadimage2.htm)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/9 "2003-02-27T02:30:52Z")
Thanks alot, those will be really helpful in the future.
For now I will brush up on Flash basics.
Thanks again.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-preloader-html-site/14431/10 "2003-02-27T02:36:19Z")
No problem.