# Newbie needs direction...simple holiday card

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-direction-simple-holiday-card/208758>\
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**Created:** [December 2, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-direction-simple-holiday-card/208758 "2006-12-02T01:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bonnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@Bonnie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bonnie)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-needs-direction-simple-holiday-card/208758/1 "2006-12-02T01:40:15Z")

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I am making a simple holiday card.

Can someone give me some direction on how to structure my fla file?

It needs a preloader and then the movie will play for about 20 seconds, then it’ll stop.

Do I make the preloader in a movie clip? Or a different scene?

Also, when I make this preloader, I just want it to say “loading” and I want a star above that to rotate. Can someone give me direction on this too?

Thanks. 🙂