Thanks for the kind words. I realized it's definitely a monitor issue. Ready for this...I'm using a Vista laptop. Haha. And since there's no way to change color settings here, the best I can do is lighten everything and hope for the best. I've noticed when looking at my work on Macs, even thecolors are way off. Not sure how to fix that until I get a Mac

Very nice typography. Swiss is the nicest face.

Why did you use Fex Bldr. instead of all Catalyst?

So much is well done. I suggest, rather than begging pardon for the load time, just post a notice that their request, or the page, is loading.

Too bad Catalyst doesn't provide for loader modifications.

Keep up the good work

>I realized it's definitely a monitor issue. Ready for this...I'm using a Vista laptop. Haha. And since there's no way to change color settings here,

What kind of Graphicchip does it use ?

Well the file size that catalyst creates is out of control. plus the header and footer were to be the same on every page. So I didn't have to create those same links and interactions 20 times (or however many pages I needed), I just decided to stack the swfs together using flash builder. If that was all one swf, it would take much much longer to load. So i basically have 3 swf files loading.

At home I run a fast network but I had some friends load on their machines and do some speed tests. most were about 3-5 mbps which is normal, but some where .5-1.5 which caused issues with the swf files catalyst builds. When a page takes forever, people click away. So I made a quick image to put in the background. The problem is when the swf starts loading, you lose the image! catalyst/builder have some issues. I may be able to throw the image on top of the swf and play with the timeline so it disappears after the swf loads.

What adobe really needs, is to figure out a way to make catalyst into an editable fla file so I can import it into flash.

I don't enjoy the need to buy Flex or Flash Builder.

I am a retired Industrial Designer who began working on web design some while ago and never had the patience for learning code.

Consequently, various Adobe products seemed to promise the "key" to delivering my wonders. I now have Catalyst, Fire Works, Dreamweaver

and Flash.

Now I see that Flash Builder is what I "really need" in order to get so much of this stuff to work as desired. I refuse to buy, yet, one more product to help all the .

other things really work correctly and easily.

I appreciate the intricacy and complexity of web design and blame nothing but my stubbornnes for being limited. But ... I'm also a

photographer and video guy and I've never had to assemble a shutter and or an iris to make striking visuals. I'll just slog through, sans Builder x.x.

If you've seen www.moonwoodhome.com from within the Catalyst forum, you may give me some breathing space on my position.

Regards

Greg

>I don't enjoy the need to buy Flex or Flash Builder.

Flex is just the free open source framework

FlashBuilder is free for non commercial usage and can be aquired here :

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/

> but that adds a lot of loading time and lines of code.

I think that the code is the smallest amount of data to load, actually images make the main swf big when embedding them.

The latest beta of Flash Catalyst allows bi-directional collaborative project exchange so that one developer friend could help you out with some things.

Lets see where this all evolves, I am excited.

Have a nice Day !

Hey, good show. Thank you.

if you make the layout of your site very simple. catalyst is a breeze. actionscript is where its at though.

Very nice site!  and your chess set rocks!

Stacy

http://krootstudio.com/

I've just uploaded my first site built in Catalyst. I Created all the elements in photoshop and illustrator then imported into Catalyst for assembling.

Once finished I inserted the swf into a Dreamweaver page.

I noticed it takes quite a while to load as the main swf file is quite large.

I'm not into coding so am hesitant to venture into Flex or Flash Builder. Is this the only option? Is there any way of compressing or optimising the swf file maybe?

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear any comments/feedback.

http://www.mywebproof.co.nz/homestay/

Bracing myself nervously... :-|

Hi Dave,

Thank's......oddly I have to fix it.

I just looked at your site it did take a while to load but it did not have a progress bar?

I had some one help me with a index page, you too may want to make an index page then make the SWF a second index all done in Dreamweaver.

I did find a tutorial that seems like it will work as far as the pre-loader, but to view it you need to be running Catalyst 5.5,

I am looking into getting 5.5, but this tutorial seems to have the answer, for non coder's  here is the link.

http://flashcats.net/2011/04/11/using-a-custom-preloader-in-catalyst/

Hope this helps....

Stacy

True........ shiny sparkles always divert attention..........  haha

I would be interested in how it works for you and how your files open in the new 5.5........

Glad the link is a possibility.

Good Luck!

Stacy

Near instant loading and an interesting site. Why does it load so quickly?

Is it all FC?

Suggestions: the butterfly be used during the intro and no more from there

on.

Imagine that while I'm giving a talk, I wave my hand to the side, fluttering

my fingers.

Do you know what I said or were you distracted by my hand action?

On subsequent pages, did the butterfly bring anything new to the

presentation?

Hello,

I have built the following Page for a Music Festival using Catalyst and Flash Builde (The File Size is <500kb)r:

http://spiritual-healing-festival.de

Wow JUDGE_JIM. Great first project! I'm amazed how much you packed into it, especially all the movie footage. Quite surprising in view of how long it took to load which wasn't too long considering the amount of content. Overall it's very well put together too — very informative and professional. I had lost interest in flash catalyst for a while but you've inspired me to take another look at it. I'm interested to see what Adobe does with it next as it has so much potential. Unfortunately, it still has a way to go before I can use it in a real-world context.

I'm interested to see how little discussion there's been on this since May.

Problems viewing.

I get the Flash update dialog

Flash update states that Mac OS 10.6 or later to install.

That's a limited audience....... my computers only a year and a half 

old.

>Problems viewing.

>I get the Flash update dialog

>Flash update states that Mac OS 10.6 or later to install.

>That's a limited audience....... my computers only a year and a half 

>old.

\

just update flash ? Or buy a intel based mac or get a pc

Looks pretty good. I suggest attention to a few graphic elements.

Change the typeface of the red embossed headline/airline name to one used by

the airline or a use a simpler, less styled font.

Reduce the weight of the font initial cap which starts each paragraph. As

is, the characters suggest an acronym which caused me to search for the

"word". This is a strong distraction. Consider using bullets if you wish to

draw the reader to each paragraph.

Keep up the good work.

Drjury

Thank you drjury for all the suggestion.Thanks

Really hope someone can help me. I have seen some great sites, and am hoping someone can tell me how to get the browsers "back" button to work on an FC site. Sorry for the noob question, but am just getting into the web design game. Thanks to anyone who can help.