New to Flash designing a website

Hello All;
I am very familier with website design however, this is my
first attempt at designing a website completely in flash. I have
learned quite a bit over the last couple of weeks playing with this
project and really like the abilities and functionality of flash.
Here is my major problem which I have tried to resolve several
ways. The issue was how to have multiple pages. At first attempt, I
thought I can make html pages and put a seperate flash movie for
each page (i.e. home, contact us, ect. ect.) The only way that
works is with using frames and it is very unorganized. The second
method I tried was using scenes. Scenes are either too complex for
me or I missed something in the translation from the tutorials, so
I abandoned that method as well. Finally, what I am using now is
Frames. Frames seam to work well but here is my major problem. So I
make a frame called contact and it is the contact page ofcourse.
When I go to that frame it has everything from the Home/index
frame; I then delete the stuff and somehow I was able to do this
with some of the frames but others when I delete the things they
get deleted from all the frames. Anyone have any idea what I am
doing wrong here. I would really like to make this site completely
in flash and not resort to any html if I can help it. Anyways,
please let me know if what I am doing is possible or just a pipe
dream?
Thanks in advance
Tamer

Using frames is a good method for building segments of your
site. When you place something on the stage, it will occupy one or
more frames in the timeline. The first frame will be a keyframe,
that's what that filled black dot in the frame means. If you want
something to occupy say 10 frames in your movie's timeline, then
you can go to the eleventh frame and add an empty keyframe. This
will end section of the timeline that contains that particular
content.
You can also use keyframes to create animation. You can find
you more about that in the online help.
You may also want to consider using movieclips to contain the
material for any given section of your movie. Look at some of the
tutorials that came with Flash. They may help to explain some of
these concepts. Also try out the material at
http://www.gotoandlearn.com.

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> Flash Design For Mobile Devices
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