How to structure an OOP flash website?

Hi all, just getting my feet wet with OOP and actionscript
and wanted to find out it there is any tutorials on how to
correctly stucture an object oriented website without using any
timeline code (all based on class files)?
Thanks in advance,
Jake

Hi Kglad,
Of course i tried a few google searches before typing out
this post! Maybe you could be more specific on the exact keywords
used as it have tried the following searches "structure flash
object oriented website", "flash object oriented website", "oop
flash site" but unfortunately they didn't bring up anything of use.
Hence the reason why i posted this question (isn't this what the
forum for? i'm sure you could answer every post on this forum with
that response).

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