First Flash Site

Calling Flash Gurus-
I am building my FIRST flash site. I have been doing effects,
headers, and basic flash elements for websites now for almost 2
years. I have MX 2004, but have just bought (today) Studio 8. I am
scared to death, but sometime I have to jump head first into flash
site design. I am excited. However, I am also scared out of my
mind. I have a few questions:
#1-Is a site set to the size of 780 W by 480 H a good size? I
see so many TINY flash sites, and that is not something I want. How
can I optimize it for the fastest load time at that size? Any
tutorials or books that can help me there?
#2-Navigation-I wanted to build a nav that slide out from the
side of the site like on the Gucci site, I know it is javascript,
but I have seen this done with Flash before (
http://www.gucci.com/us/index2.html),
and instead of rollovers, there is a tsunami effect that I like
that could be found here:
http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/advanced/Building_a_tsunami/index.shtml.
HOW would I create buttons? Invisible buttons? How can I get them
to move out with the menu?
#3-Am I biting of more than I can chew?
#4-Where can I get the advice I need that explains the basic
actionscript and standards of flash site design? I just need
something to help me along. I am determined and will work day and
night to make this happen. I have a VERY basic understanding
already, I bought a flash template and looked at all the code to
see how everything worked. I need something a little beyond basic
that give comprehensive explanations about the actionscripting
behind all the effects. I am not a copy and paste guy, I need to
understand what is going on.
That is it for now, I am sure here in the next few weeks, you
will all be so sick of seeing my posts here that you may even avoid
the forums until I finish my site. Lol. Seriously though, thanks in
advance for all the help. I need every bit I can get.

First when you finish with the site, go to publish
settings> HTML tab> Dimensions> Percent (width and Height
must be 100)
Then go down to scale> No scale (from drop down menu).
Select publish. Now when you go to publish preview select
view>source. In the code insert the following in the head tab.
<style type="text/css">

</style>
Save and refresh the page. This makes the window fill without
you having to resize your fla file. I usually make mine 800/600. On
the other stuff, I'm gonna have to get back with you,

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in the beginning. But if you start from the main timeline (_root)
and build brom there, it becomes easier to understand.
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separate movieclip.
Inside Pages you have each page, each a separate movieclip.
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-meaning that you target FROM WHERE YOU ARE.
the second method is ABSOLUTE.
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"Jeckyl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e975l6$94n$[email protected]..
>> I had this kind of problem with Flash sites that
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>
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Can't get Gaia site working on a new server
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Hi. I recently switched from 1&1 shared hosting to a new webhost, Holistic.
My Flash site (based on the Gaia framework) doesn't work now.
Using the Flashplayer Debugger, I got the following error:
from Main: view.scaleX = 0.9041666666666667 and view.scaleY = 1.0129032258064516
from Main: view.x = 0 and view.y = 0
Error: Failed to load policy file from xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800 by requestor from http://www.yourgods.com/bin/main.swf has failed because the server cannot be reached.
*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
Connection to 127.0.0.1:5800 halted - not permitted from http://www.yourgods.com/bin/main.swf
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800 by requestor from http://www.yourgods.com/bin/main.swf has failed because the server cannot be reached.
Also got this note even though I've set allowscriptaccess to always in my index.html:
Warning: AllowScriptAccess='never' found in HTML. This setting is ineffective and deprecated. See http://www.adobe.com/go/allowscriptaccess for details.
Warning: 'com' has no property 'onEnterFrame'
Regarding the Security Sandbox violation, my old webhost was 1&1, and they are still the official Registrar of YourGods.com - but I now have YourGods.com pointed at the DomainNameServers for my new host, Holistic, which specializes in Drupal and has no experience with Flash - so I hope you'll bear with me and offer what guidance you can since they said I was basically on my own for troubleshooting any Flash related problems.
Is that likely to be the source of my problem (that I'm only 'pointing' to the nameservers and have only 'parked' my domain with the new host instead of transferring it completely?
And if so, do I just need to create a cross domain policy xml file like the one below and leave it on my Old Webhost?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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I've never dealt with this cross domain stuff before so any help would be much appreciated.

As a test, I uploaded my Flash/Gaia site into an existing site on my old host. And although the site actually works in this setting, when I run things in the FlashPlayerDebugger, I'm still getting Security Sandbox Violations - so (as adninjastrator suggested in earlier post), this may have nothing to do with the DNS changes - but perhaps with my setting things up wrong somewhere so that the Flashplayer is trying to access my local computer - maybe??
Debugger logs gives me this:
Error: Failed to load policy file from xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800 by requestor from http://recreationofthegods.com/bin/main.swf has failed because the server cannot be reached.
*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
So, I've now uploaded the identical bin (which contains all the files for my site) - but I'm getting different behaviors on the two hosts.
On the new holistic servers, the site won't go past the first page: www.yourgods.com
On the 1&1 servers, I still get runtime errors in FlashPlayerDebugger - but the site runs ok - http://www.RecreationOfTheGods.com/bin/index.html
Posting those links in hopes someone with more experience in these sandbox issues can help steer me in the right direction.

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incorporated a small movie with no sound into the swf.1 file and
then the rest of the files have simple text but in the 6.swf file I
utilized another template by Dan Carr which he put up on this site
that has an flv movie player with 5 flv files. I have no problem
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and play independently but it is 6.swf and when I open my
1.swf/1.index.html file the voice from the first movie in my 6.swf
file plays. The movie sound that plays from my 6.swf file is the
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SueSue

From your description, it sounds like all of the loaded
movies, are loaded in at the start of the first Flash movie.
Additionally, in this 6.swf movie, the first .flv file is set to
begin to play as soon as that movie is loaded. That's why you are
hearing the sound track playing when the first movie loads.
You can fix this by changing the code in 6.swf so that the
first movie doesn't begin to stream/play when it loads. If there is
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