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if you are not familiar with Flash, look for the gallery which you can edit with your content by changing only .xml file and folders with photos. You can use Slideshow Pro (standalone) for example, as they promise: .

have you seen zenphoto gallery script?

you both use ff3 have you tried to upgrade FF to 3.5.5? Though it is unlikely FF version could be the reason.

not really?

just to test if 3 mins gap exists

here we go - the post with signature. Now we "need" those animated gifs or huge banners at the bottom of each post as on many common forums and we will be just fine

this is what forums for beginners in web design for: to answer the questions of people who are just start with web design. Is just one of the standard questions they ask. Got bored? Move on, learn more. If you want challenge staying here in forum, be creative or look for inspiration elsewhere.

take it as a general rule while coding: once you wrote the code, validate HTML (helps to correct mistakes like missing closing tags and Doctype relevance) and CSS.

have you got a link to your page to see what HTML was generated? In general, I don't believe generated code would be ever better than the one written manually so, once you got the the .swf file of your website, embed it using one of most common embedding methods. As for now, SWFobject is the most effective one. Also, from what you described is not clear how the .swf is built - is the header also in Flash and part of .swf the header image coded right into HTML?

I see no link to the website and cant possibly say anything. To Andrea: took me a while to figure equation Thelma=Andrea ( seeing it always separately) I think this event of taking another forum name should be announced in open forum Or did i miss that?

you need to go back to basics: watch or read a tutorial on Flash buttons (google "Flash button tutorials", and not only watch but create the actual button and assign it the actions getURL. Here is just one of many tutorials. It describes very basics. But make sure that you pick tutorial for your version of Flash so it would be easy for you to see where you are making the mistake in your script.

as for now, you have in the code so the player will always start the playlist. You will need some script snippet to let the player start on event. So i think could be an idea to look into podcasts here. You can pick some tips on how to manage that from social networking sites like ustream for example ( boagworld podcast use it.)

you can always load the texture from the photoshop self: if you click "load" button in a tool window, browse option will open, so you pick the file you want to work with.

it is not that I experience some trouble loading (the loading time is about 30-40sec)- it is better that sound from the website not jump on a visitor right away ( as a downside of "autoplay" option) As for lightbox - rather not lightbox in your case but js opening of popup window with standalone player - like described here for example.

I haven't noticed any player yet on your page may be because it was loading too slow. But anyway you can consider to put the payer into the lightbox like this or similar - may be search for lightbox with standalone option?

aside of validation errors, Your present layout looks indeed quite not worked through. It is quite a challenge to create good dark background website. Might help if you look for some inspiration around the net: just google "dark background websites". Here is one of the examples. As you can see from the examples, texture, patterns, gradients are applied to almost each selector. Starting with the body selector: you can use some pattern, texture of gradient to define content box more clearly: especially if you deal with dark backgrounds ( instead of using thick white border). Of course it will be up to you to not to get overboard with effects and keep the content readable.

Have you got the example page more.html ( from the zip file) working? If not, upload it ( together with more.css and .js ) files to some test directory and give us a link. In case you got the example page working, edit all content replacing all text to yours and see if it works for you. Now you are ready to add HTML to your working page. Make sure that Doctype of a test page is the same ( in the example it is

What I meant is that using JS could cause some difficulties in accessibility ( if for example, JS is off, the content of lightbox will be unaccessible). Further, in some cases JS can make page content unreadable for search engines and screen readers. So when you choose lightbox, look for the accessible one, if possible, not only on how pretty they are. More reading about it: Creating accessible JS and as example of how to evaluate code snippet on usability/accessibility/degradability: http://mondaybynoon.com/2006/03/27/suckerfish-hoverlightbox/

you can start with CSS "show me some more" snippet. And of course there are many JS based scripts: accordion type ( google "js accordions") where more of the content opens below the button on click and lightbox type (also JS - google "JS lightbox" ): extra content appear in the "lighbox" window. More accessible seems CSS snippet but many JS lightboxes and accordions scripts also decently degrade if JS is off.

Thelma if you want some brand new stuff, you can try CSS grids. No worries about positioning, just fill the "cells" of grid with content.

The best advice we can give you is: remove Flash intro page completely and have normal index.html/index.php page which has the actual content. Why? Flash intro, besides hurting your search engines rank, cause annoyance of visitors and has no actual content value ( you can surprise us if it has). When I clicked on your page link, I got a message that I need to installed some plugins (to watch your intro) "which potentially could harm my comp". If you have still feelings for the intro, convert it into a movie and let it play on a home page when visitor clicks the button Play.

ok you have 6mb video of good quality, how would you show it on a website? If you use simple embed, whho will wait till it's loaded? Using then download or streaming server? Really, better to put more effort into website accessibility itself than into creation a monster which almost no one will be seeing anyway.

for most cases good embedded and/or linked to external sources slideshow will do the job because as mentioned above, videos take lots of time to load. I only see real necessity of embed videos for the websites in advertising to show off their skills in making those videos so they would want to have multiple movie player embedded. As far as I know now they want to have embedded movie players for HD quality videos (format .f4v). As for movie makers, if you are on PC, Windows Movie maker (free) will do the most of needed editing and learning curve - about 5-10 mins.

why not to try grid layout if you want to get " numerous text boxes, each coloured differently". It becomes more and more popular now as an alternative to tables: CSS grid. If you google CSS grid, you'd get many sources and good documentation on it. I find Blueprint CSS quite easy to implement (could be daunting for beginner but the reward will be also the learning process of rather advanced CSS. The main advantages of CSS grid are good browsers support and neat outcome especially if you need multiple text boxes.

I'd make new home page without frames - just plainly code its HTML with all the content in one page; would be good improvement for the website anyway. Just create a test-home page, link to it other pages and test.