Concept of HTML frames in Flash for navigating

[Timski]

Hey everybody...thanks to anyone who reads this. Well I'm pretty new to Flash, I went through the tutorials but my main purpose being creating a webpage, I found very little to help me with that. I've done a couple webpages in HTML and I just have trouble with some of the concepts in Flash...I've stumbled around for a few days and created the home page, with the buttons and such, but what I was wondering is...

If I were to have a top navigation bar and a bottom navigation bar, with the middle section reserved for whatever portion of the website you were looking at, could I have each portion load separately to reduce the loading time at the beginning? Would this involve a separate flash file of each portion embedded in the existing file? If so, how would I do this?

The key is that I can load each page separately but also I'm just having trouble with the whole concept, I want to think of having frames but it just doesn't seem to work that way. Here's a screenshot of what I've done for the main page so far, so that everyone gets the idea of what I'm talking about. -- http://gallery.passion4art.com/membe...ki/webpage.jpg

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on the subject.
-tim

[chook]

hey tim,

it's a bit to get your head around at first but once you do it's pretty straightforward.

firstly, create your html frameset, your's will be made up of three rows, and name each frame accordingly.
The top frame will be "topnav"
the middle frame will be "main"
the bottom frame will be "bottonav"

Make sure to name your frames in your html code as well, or flash will not know where it's going?

EX:
<frame src="row1.html" name="topnav" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" framespacing="0" scrolling="no" noresize>

Now, you will have to make three separate flash movies, one for each frame.
One will be "topnav" that will control the top frame, one will be "bottomnav" and one will be "main", this movie is what will be showing in the "main" frame.

Each of those movies will be embedded into their corresponding frames on your html page.

[chook]

sorry, I didn't finish, I accidentally hit submit.

cont'd.

within you nav flash movies, make sure you are directing all your actions to the "main" frame.

hope this helps

[Timski]

Thanks alot Chook, I guess that just made too much sense. I guess I'd just have to refresh my memory on some frame commands and stuff. However, the site that I'm basically modeling mine after (as far as the format)--
http://www.amanosworld.com/amanoflash.html
doesn't use frames (I checked the HTML) and I was just wondering if anyone knew how that was done. Never hurts to have a couple methods just in case, cause I'm always bound to screw something up. Thanks alot everyone
-tim