Navigation within site

ok, ok…i’m new to flash so my ?'s are gonna be easy for you to make fun of…

General Question: What’s the best way to build and navigate through a site? I’ve been shown to make a timeline layer for my pages: (keyframe1 being the intro, keyframe11 the static home page, kf 20 the about page…etc.)

whats the best way to assign commands that bring the user to the contents of each individual page…do these need to be separate files or just movies? ■■■■…i suck right now. i guess i just need someone to break it down a bit more for me.