Flash Website Advice Needed.

Hi,
Im going to give my own site a go in flash and was wondering if someone could give me a few pointers or direction as i have not used flash for a few years now.
I want my site to work like this but obviously i wanna customize it to suite. http://www.glenbowden.com/
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Justin

For each section, create an empty movieclip and add all the images to that movieclip dynamically (or you can do it all by hand on the stage). Then as each image is added, a button is also added and assigned a value relative toi the x position of the image it is for. When you click that button, it executes a function that gradually increments/decrements the x position of the movieclip until the movieclip has moved to the position where that image is in the intended display area. You can use the actionscript Tween class instead of a gradual increment/decrement approach.

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e.Shubee wrote:
> Please forgive the beginner's question. I would like to
build a flash site like
>
http://www.hockaday.org from an
easy to use Flash template. You get what you
> pay for so my first choice isn't something for free but
a 30-day free trial
> version would be nice.
>
> What I like best about
http://www.hockaday.org is the
great menus and that
> pictures continually reload in interesting ways.
>
> I need to create a site like that one immediately so I
don't have the time to
> learn Flash first. What's my best bet?
>
>
>

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