I used Dreamweaver to create quick point-and-click web pages with very little complicated formatting; I just put my main image in, changed the page background color, changed the text color, formatted the font, and then centered everything before typing up a quick commentary on the image. If you need a little advice on how to use a WYSIWIG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor like Dreamweaver or how to write HTML to create your own simple pages and upload them to a web server, you can check out Jennifer Kyrnin's Web Design@About.com.
Flash Animation 24: Flash for Web Design: Creating a Thumbnail Gallery
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide
Next, I had to create content pages for my full-sized images. While we're keeping most of our web page contained in Flash, for the popup windows we need separate pages; there are internal ways to create popups in Flash, but for right now we want to keep it simple and easy.
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- Introduction and Creating Content
- Creating Content II
- Importing Thumbnail Files Into Your Library
- Adding a Keyframe to Limit Content to a Single "Page"
- Adding Thumbnails to Your Scene
- Turning Your Thumbnails into Buttons
- Adding a getURL command
- Inserting the Javascript Command and Breaking it Down
- Conclusion
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