Really Need Help with Some Basics!

Question

I've done Adobe's flash tutorials, and made a numbef of
animations, and feel comfortable with that, but am having trouble
finding a good source on how to best implement a full flash site
for the web. Is there an Adobe tutorial I am missing?
Specifically, I've made an animation using the new Flash
screens feature, but am having a few problems with it. For one, the
animation is 443 kb for the full animation. Is this acceptable if I
add a preloader? (website is for a Swiss audience only - so pretty
good bandwidth)
Here's the site: (use forward and back to navigate as one of
the problems I"m having is with the buttons on the top)
http://www.genevanotebook.com/BUFFET/test.html
I've also had some problems with the navigation. Forward and
Back work, but I can't get the buttons to work (is this a limiation
in the "linear" screens feature?)
Or would someone divide this up in some way. I've though of
different possibilities like using frames (which I haven't touched
for years) and having buttons in an simple html frame, which then
opens and plays the flash files in the frame just below it. Or
would Iframes be a way of proceeding? Or is there something else I
am missing. I would be very curious to hear how you experts would
proceed with putting together a site like the one above!
Many thanks for any suggestions, including websites with good
examples of the different ways a site like mine could be
implemented for the web.

Answer 1

Here is the link.
http://www.matthewpavkov.com/buffetscreens_edited.fla
Now, I'm going to try and explain what I did as best I can.
But please understand that I do not know very much about
actionscript, I just know how to feel my way through syntax and
where code should and shouldn't be.
First, I renamed the slides on the left. b-b-q ----> bbq1,
and so forth. This is what I believe was the main problem for the
buttons not working. My guess is you may have used the instance
name somewhere and that could affect it. The second part to the
main reason why your buttons weren't working is that you had
different code on the word buttons than the code on the picture
buttons. The code on the word buttons was the correct code. So, I
copied and pasted that code on each of the word buttons AND each of
the picture buttons, correspondingly. Then I changed each code to
match up with the new names for the slides. Doing this alone fixed
all the buttons so everything worked correctly. I also found that
you had actionscript associated with the bbq slide. If you click on
the slide on the left, you'll see the actionscript, I deleted that
as it was unnecessary. Also, make sure to use the "Auto format"
button in the actionscript plane, it's very useful for keeping
things looks clean and consistent. I did that for all the code.
Aside from this, I found nothing else wrong.
I'd also like to point out that I've never used slides
before. In fact, I only became aware of them after looking at your
file. They look like a useful feature if you're going to have many
simple pages, but I think it'd be much easier to do what you're
doing now...just have each button point to a frame (or set of
frames) in the timeline. These slides seem a little cumbersome for
a small project, not to mention I'm sure you'll have no problems
whatsoever using the frames method instead of slides.
Hope this helped.