OK, I really need advice from other people with flash websites. I need to streamline my site to make it easier and faster to load.
I know there are plenty of you who seem to have a lot of pictures and animated movies posted up on your own flash sites, but they still load pretty quickly. I've already altered the compression settings and lowered the jpeg settings directly in flash, but my site still takes too long to load. I also link to my animations using the loadmovie actionscript code to chop down the file size, but the results aren't what I expected. They still seem to take too long to download.
Basically, I would like to know what you did to improve load time but maintain quality, and the best way to prepare my animations for downloading and viewing?
(It should be noted that I'm not new to making websites. For some reason, I'm just having trouble with my own. :o )
Sharvonique Studios
www.sharvonique.com
Animated By Sharvonique Blog
http://sharvonique.animationblogspot.com
How about a link to your website?
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
Found it in your next post.
You are loading a swf file that is almost 2mgs in the beginning. I would recommend only loading the opening frame, with a stop action on it. From there load individual movie clips, like your portfolio, and content pages. This way viewers have something to look at and read while waiting for the individual mods to load.
Without being able to dissect your fla file it's hard to say where else you could save byte weight.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
Oops! For those not aware of my previous thread, the link to my site is www.sharvonique.com
Currently, my site is set up as a single swf file with different scenes for each page. I have a stop action on the 1st frame of each scene, and I connect to each page by linking the buttons to their corresponding scenes. I use movie clips to contain all text and images.
I'm now in the process of separating each scene into its own swf file, and will link to them using the loadmovie code. Is this what you mean phacker, or are you talking about something else? This is the same process that I use to load up my animations, but I'm not sure if this is the best method for linking to every page. I think people will tolerate movies loading up, but not necessarily individual pages.
Sharvonique Studios
www.sharvonique.com
Animated By Sharvonique Blog
http://sharvonique.animationblogspot.com
AWN Showcase Gallery
Yes that's what I was talking about. And as to viewers tolerating individual pages loading if you keep them modular and small, they load just like html pages.
If you go to scooters-world and click on the portfolio link. You'll see I have 48 pages of logos there. Most are under 48k and load right into the main window. There's very little wait time that way.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
Hi phacker,
I visited your site and I see what you mean. Thanks for the advice.
I love the "cast" page by the way.
Sharvonique Studios
www.sharvonique.com
Animated By Sharvonique Blog
http://sharvonique.animationblogspot.com
AWN Showcase Gallery
Actually the cast page has no preloader, and is over 200k, but it's stretched over a number of frames and streams. It's not so good on a slow dialup, but it works for what it is. It seemed like the best solution for what it was.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.