Interactive portfolio

I'm trying to build an interactive portfolio for my
advertising and marketing website and I'm not much of an
ActionScript programmer, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a
tutorial out there that might help me. I have searched the
internet, far and wide, and I can't find what I'm looking for.
Here's how I'd like to set it up:
The page will have four sections: a subject menu (with
thumbnails); a scrolling thumbnail menu at the bottom of the page;
a large viewing area; and a text area.
The user will first select from the menu. The menu will be
visible at all times and will have entries like: logo, brochures,
advertising campaigns, etc. Clicking on a menu item will bring up
the appropriate set of thumbnails at the bottom of the page. The
user can then scroll through the thumbnails, pick the one they
want, click on it and it will appear in the large viewing area with
the appropriate text.
That's it. That's all I want to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Doug

What exactly are you trying to do? The folio builder panel is for Digital
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kid-hatrack wrote:
I have a fairly simple interactive portfolio which will be burned onto CD.
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"cdub" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm having an issue displaying images from an xml file.
It's a portfolio
> site,
> so basically it displays text and an image. All the text
is working just
> fine,
> but for some reason the image (and the whole app) won't
display when the
> image
> code is added.
>
> Here's my code:
>
> <mx:XML id=" portfolioXML"
> source="portfolio.xml" />
>
> <mx:XMLListCollection id="interActXMLList"
> source="{ portfolioXML.interactive.label}" />
>
> <mx:List id="interActList"
> dataProvider="{interActXMLList}"
> width="253" height="103" />
>
> <mx:Number
id="selectedWorkIndex">{interActList.selectedIndex}</mx:Number>
>
> <mx:Text
> id="titleInput"
> text="{
portfolioXML.interactive[selectedWorkIndex].title}"
> width="446" />
>
> <mx:Text
> id="description"
> text="{
portfolioXML.interactive[selectedWorkIndex].shortDesc}"
> height="101" width="446" />
> 
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above? Does
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(:)
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