# Help needed

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**Created:** [May 3, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed/50502 "2004-05-03T19:19:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@kaede](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kaede)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed/50502/1 "2004-05-03T19:19:00Z")

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hi  
i’m an absolute beginner with flash, though i have the general layout built for a project, i’m having problems with:

1. navigation system: how do you make a flash file play and when it stops it  
stays as a background, with a navigation menu in  
which the user clicks on different buttons will make  
different text shown on a certain area of the whole  
background. ( i have read kirupa’s " building a fullsite  
with flash" but it seems like the particular project had  
it’s background changed and only the navigation  
system, the logo icon and the “moving ball effect” were  
fixed on screen)

2. layers: how do you/ is it prossible to merge multiple layers into one?  
( different transitions and properties )

3. publishing site: i just can’t have the work published with its actual size.  
i published several times with different settings but it all  
came out scaled down and the imported jpg files look  
distorted…please help me fix it

these 3 are my immediate problems…any suggestions pertaining flash mx would be very appreciated…thanks!

oh and how do you upload a file with a post ( is it allowed here? )…in case if a visual is needed.

thanks again