Found a trial version of CS3 and am making some headway.
Okay, NOW I see the benefits of loading separate SWFs and how it seems to work! So, does merely having everything in the same folder enable this sort of organization to work such that any updates/edits take immediate effect?
Two small things:
1)There's a preloader error output that comes up when I test the .fla :
I didnt go through the portfolio .swf.I just created (copied) it really.. to an external.swf
I looked at it.. and I have no clue what are you trying to do. doesnt even look to have any images in the main image section above your thumbnails..etc..
anyways.. the logic is there for you load in any external .swf you ant now..
so you can build any .fla/.swf you want all by itself..and test it.. (do not use _root...'or' use _lockroot = true; in the first frame of every external.swf 'if' you have to use references to _root in it)
I can check into the preloader.. but hard to test it locally.. did you try to slow the loading by ctrl+enter (twice in a row)
Yeah, I had to delete the images to ensure that I could zip everything...
I reinserted all of them, and when I did, the only thing off was the navigation w/ the next/prev arrows below the thumbnails.
As for the preloader, I did try both methods w/ the ctrl/enter (twice) and the standard test method, and the error screen came up. The same error message comes up again when I click on the different buttons in the file: bio, portfolio, etc.