flash menu

[y_pavlov]

evening,
sorru to rouble u, but i am designing a web-site and i need to build 2 things,
1st) flash navigation menu, of all the pages on the website (links)
2nd) i am using Frontpage 2002, and i am unable to get the right 'fit' for all other resolutions,
is there a way of getting the website to adjust to different resolutions? if not...wot is the optimal resolution to use
many many thanks as always guys
hmm its pretty hard designing :( for a newbie

my site is www.workforcebank.co.uk

regards

[spufi]

If you are a newbie, don't use a Flash menu. Making changes to a Flash menu can be a royal pain.

Don't use Front Page. It sucks as a tool to design web pages. Learn how to actually code HTML/CSS and you'll be much better off. Do a search on something called HTML Kit and use that instead. It's free too.

Don't use the <blink> tag. All the more so for your menu. If you want to piss off your users, that's certainly one way to do it.

[spufi]

I forgot to add, for resolution problems, use percentages for sizes instead of giving it a specific value. Images shouldn't be wider than let's say 750px, which your one image is well over and that's why you have problems on smaller resolutions.

[y_pavlov]

thanks for replying,

i do need the flash mneu, its like one off and just for the navigation menu :( can i download it from somewhere and just insert it'? thanks

and also wot u said bout the resolution, its not only the images, how can i get the persentages changed in frontpage?
i know most stuf i ask is dumb, sorry :)
many thanks

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

you want a navigation menu like this?

http://xaxei.europe.webmatrixhosting.net

-only has one button that doesn't link to any pages but you get the idea-

-has a box to place your logo in-

-made this myself. wewt! my first navigation panel done in flash.-

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

also: I made up the banner but you get the idea. you can place any intro-banner you want in it. its a symbol linked in under the "base" layer so you can edit it to any kind of banner you want, it can be looping or it can play once like an intro and stop or it can be just a logo, not an animation at all, it can be whatever you want it to be. the buttons are easy. just add more and link them to the site you want.
Also: make a new layer and insert your logo into that square area if you want. just change the base that they play in, so that its unique. but you can keep the banner part that opens where it is, just change the "doors" that surround it and the "doors" that are used to make the square and that surround the navigation panel.

[Daria]

Why Flash? What effect do you want to achieve? Maybe you'd be better off with rollovers/css/javascript (there is more then one way to skin the cat) for this webstie?

[MotherNatrsSon]

I may be wrong, but I think search engines cannot follow Flash menu links either. A "rue" Flash menu that is. Not just a flash button as an image srcand a link.

A simple unordered list with hover effects in CSS can be done very well.

I would suggest strongly skipping the Flash if at all possible.

MNS

[pyro]

Originally posted by MotherNatrsSon
I would suggest strongly skipping the Flash if at all possible.Or at least provide an alternate way to navigate one's site. If you look at my site, you'll see that while it does make use of Macromedia Flash, the accessability of the site does not suffer because of it.