# My first REAL flash site!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 1, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834 "2003-05-01T23:37:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@damonc79](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/damonc79)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/1 "2003-05-01T23:37:07Z")
Ok, its just about done, and I would like some feedback. Thanks to Kirupa and the great members here, I have learned a lot to make this site! Check out the mouseovers and all the sections that work (currently, News is the only non-functional section). Here is the test site …
[http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/](http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/)
There is one problem I’m having. In Internet Explorer (apparently on PCs and Macs), the gallery section is not working properly. I used a tutorial from this site to make centered pop-ups of each image in the gallery ([tutorial link](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.htm) ) , but for some reason in IE, only the first three images actually make a pop-up window. In Netscape, all of them work.
So I’d like some feedback, and I need some help :q:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/2 "2003-05-01T23:50:00Z")
I’m using IE and when you click on the other pictures (other than those three), there’s an error on page. Might want to double check your script.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/3 "2003-05-07T01:10:35Z")
I figured out what was wrong … I had spaces in some variable names that shouldnt have been there.
It should be working fine now. Soooooo, I would still like some feedback on the design, layout, flow, transitions, etc.
Let me know how I’m doing 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/4 "2003-05-07T01:11:50Z")
I can’t access it ☹
edit: nm i got in…
Hey looks good. I suggest centering the movie in the middle of the page… otherwise I like the transitions and whatnot. I’m still working on my first site myself 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/5 "2003-05-07T01:13:26Z")
Why not?
Here is the link again, just in case.
[http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/](http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/)
I just checked it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/6 "2003-05-07T02:53:53Z")
hi damonc79! your sites rocks! ;)!
im experiencing a pausing music (my my connection is just too slow lol)
anyhu, try setting standards…
on biography, try settingup same gaps on your buttons. ;)!
keep it up!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/7 "2003-05-07T02:54:37Z")
Hey, I’m going to send this to the “SIte Check” forum. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/8 "2003-05-07T03:56:55Z")
Noxious,
Thanks … i think i will do what you said.
and thanks for moving this to the correct place Jubba.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/9 "2003-05-07T11:17:44Z")
I like it, good job dude 🙂 Here are some things I noticed (as always, these are very minor 🙂 )
1. When biography is preloading, the numbers from 1 - 10 or something like that have a % next to it, the rest doesn’t
2. When I tested your music control, I couldn’t get the music to play again after I stopped it. Or maybe that’s just me being too impatient :beam: By the way, I like that volume slider you’ve got there, real nice 🙂
3. You might wanna increase the frame rate a bit, it was quite ‘framy’ on my pc.
4. Maybe you could make those notes when rollOvering fade out when the mouse rollsOut
That’s about it. Very good work 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/10 "2003-05-07T18:26:39Z")
> \*Originally posted by lemonizer \*
> \*\*Hey looks good. I suggest centering the movie in the middle of the page… otherwise I like the transitions and whatnot. I’m still working on my first site myself 🙂 \*\*
Thanks 🙂
I plan on having it in a centered pop-up window when it is all finished, with an entry page and all that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/11 "2003-05-07T18:31:42Z")
> \*Originally posted by Voetsjoeba \*
> \*\*I like it, good job dude 🙂 Here are some things I noticed (as always, these are very minor 🙂 )
1. When biography is preloading, the numbers from 1 - 10 or something like that have a % next to it, the rest doesn’t
2. When I tested your music control, I couldn’t get the music to play again after I stopped it. Or maybe that’s just me being too impatient :beam: By the way, I like that volume slider you’ve got there, real nice 🙂
3. You might wanna increase the frame rate a bit, it was quite ‘framy’ on my pc.
4. Maybe you could make those notes when rollOvering fade out when the mouse rollsOut
That’s about it. Very good work 🙂 \*\*
Thanks for the help … . I don’t know whats up with the % thing, but I will look into it. I think the music not playing again might have been impatience on your part, lol … it does take a while to reload the mp3 for some reason! I downloaded that whole music player thing from some other site … it works very well, and uses an xml playlist. I have the frame rate set to 33 … but it seems choppy to me sometimes too … i might increase it again across all the seperate swfs.
Making the notes fade out on mouseout … i dont even know how to do that … but i’ll try, cause it sounds cool 🙂
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/12 "2003-05-07T20:26:41Z")
- The white space around the main chunk is too plain.
- You need to seamlessly put on your sharply squared flash movie into your background.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/13 "2003-05-07T21:12:33Z")
> \*Originally posted by Supree \*
> \*\*- The white space around the main chunk is too plain.
- You need to seamlessly put on your sharply squared flash movie into your background.
- \*\*
Thanks … but i just said in a previous post that when it is finished, that will be in a centered popup window with an entry page … so all you will see is the flash content in a window without toolbars and scrollbars, etc,
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/14 "2003-05-08T23:03:50Z")
I’m working on the changes you guys brought to my attention, so thanks 🙂
But one thing, the frame rate is set to 33 right now … how high should I set it to stop it from being choppy?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/15 "2003-05-08T23:21:33Z")
nice site dude!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/16 "2003-05-08T23:31:51Z")
oh one more thing what was yer method of deloading the animations
(when they click on another button the de-animation plays unloading it and then loading the other animation) get what im trying to say?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/17 "2003-05-10T01:37:42Z")
Thanks everyone … check the site again, I’ve update with most of the changes that were suggested. I created an entrance page and everything too, so the flash movie pops up in a centered window … keep letting me know what you guys think.
[http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/](http://www.damoncollins.com/setaside/)
pares101, I read some tutorials and some forums on here about transitions and creating full flash sites, and borrowed some code here and there … but basically the main swf loads a movie that has an intro marker and an outro marker … when it loads it plays the intro and stops, and when you unload it, it plays the outro and opens the next movie (for whatever you clicked on)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-first-real-flash-site/19834/18 "2003-05-10T05:52:29Z")
Wow, it’s become even nicer :beam: