A little help with a flash webpage.......

[FrostyPanda]

Hi everyone. I'm new to the forums.......but luckily not to flash. I've done lots of flash videos but never any buttons and such. I have lots of experience with HTML webpages and am looking to get into flash pages. I do small freelance graphic design on my free time and am looking to make a website to get my name out there.

I found a website design that I really liked and was wondering if anyone could suggest some tutorials to give me to help me create something with the same basic layout. Here's the site: http://www.2advanced.com/.

And here's a list of the features I liked in the site that I'd like some help finding tutorials for:


Intro Video
Lightbox sort of pop up when "Contact" or "Language" is clicked
Drop down nav. menu (titled "Expand navigation array" on the site)
Rollover popup on parts like "View Demo Reel", "Download Digital Matte Wallpaper", "Archives", "Preferences"


I've got plenty of photoshop knowledge so making graphics won't be a problem.

Thanks for your help! Sorry for the long winded post. Once I figure out what all this stuff is called i'll be able to shorten it up :). Even if you can't give a whole list of tutorials please post what you can (i'll take whatever I can get)!

[Eye for Video]

Wecome to the Forum! We are always glad to have people who are interested in learning join our group.
It may relieve you a little to know that there are no Flash Web pages, only pages that contain Flash content. Since you have experience in both html and Flash, your learning curve may not be so steep.
Considering that there are no Flash Web pages, the answers to your list of features, depends on how you plan to create the page and the interaction between the Flash portion and the html portion of each Web page.
As for the link you provided... BEAUTIFUL SITE!!! Yet virtually invisible to search engines.... yeah I know they are working on indexing .swfs but at least help them out with "Alternate Content" using something like swfobject.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swfobject.html
Intro video, separate html page or just a section of frames on the timeline?
Popups? From the html page or within the .swf.... thinking Javascript needed here....
Drop down menu.. inside the main .swf or will this menu be placed on an html page in a <div> above the <main_swf>?
Rollover and popups... same as above.
Here are some sources of great tuts.
www.gotoandlearn.com
and
www.flashkit.com
for the Flash part.
Visit:
http://www.w3schools.com/
for tuts on how to configure the page to work with the Flash content you place in <div>s.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com