Flash Web Sites - Organization?

[Billy B]

Looking for tutorials on designing full-flash web sites. Specifically,
how best to organize scenes, movie clips, buttons with respect to the
site as a whole.

Not wanting techniques -- looking for help on STRUCTURING the large
projects.

What's the most common approach?

Thanks!


PS Sorry, stupid Google groups tacked this msg to a super old thread
of the same title earlier today....

[simon]

Billy B wrote:

> Looking for tutorials on designing full-flash web sites. Specifically,
> how best to organize scenes, movie clips, buttons with respect to the
> site as a whole.
>
> Not wanting techniques -- looking for help on STRUCTURING the large
> projects.
>
> What's the most common approach?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> PS Sorry, stupid Google groups tacked this msg to a super old thread
> of the same title earlier today....

Yeah you'r rite man, 'im juste looking for the same thing!


So if you please if somebody got something, help us! thanks, merci beaucoup!

Actually i think i know a few basic rules (i hope this is not too noobie
for u:

- nowadays, don't use SCENES, because it mess up the actionscript.

- arrange MCs by naming them coherently (like bt_something for buttons,
c_something for clips, etc), the basic idea is to standardize names in
order to find quickly what you're looking for.

- use external .as files as often as u can (group the functions, strings
etc. together to make it clear, again)

- use external .swf (loadMovie) and media files (pictures, sounds) to
lighten your main .swf file.

- make relevant directories : by themes/subjects/rubrics or by file
types (or both)

- make labels as often as u can in order to make gotoAndPlay() easier
but also to know where you are in the whole project, or to describe
what's happening at a particular position.

- it can be practical for some sites to make different frame positions
(+labels) for each rubric (ie: news, profile, content, links,
contact...), instead of having like between 1 to 3 frames only and
making all the changes only with actionscript.

I'm not sure everything i said is right but i hope it's not and it will
give some clues.

Good luck, simon