Open Flash CS4

File>New...>Flash Document (Actioncript 2.0)

Change the stage size to 640 X 480 in the Property Window

Choose a white background and 12 fps

Draw a circle with a Solid fill and Black 2 pt Solid Stroke. This is going to be a button, so don't make it too large.

Select the circle AND stroke, Modify>Convert to Symbol (F8)

Name it "shapeButton" and choose Button as a type, Center Registration

Notice the bounding box, that is one way of telling you that it is no loger a "Shape", it is an "Object"

Save as lnBSA.fla (Last Name in lowercase, Buttons, Sound, Actions)

Cmd+L or Window>Library, Dbl Click the shapButton icon (not the object name).  You should now be in Edit Mode of your timeline

Lable the layer "button"

Make a new layer & lable it "text"

On the "text" layer, select your Text tool & type with Black the Word "Shape" 12 or 14 pt, Bold, Times

Withn your selection tool center the word over your button. Make sure View>Snapping>Snap to Objects is Unchecked

Select the "Over" frame (both layers)

F6 or Insert>Timeline>Keyframe

Select the "Down" frame & F6 (both layers)

Select the "Hit" frame & F6 (button layer only)

Select the "Over" frame, then select just the Stroke & from the "Transform" panel (Window>Transform), with Constrain checked, type 120% then "tab"

Select the "Down" frame & change the color of the button's fill

Leave the "Hit" frame  alone

Go back to "Scene 1" by clicking "Scene 1" anchor

Control>Enable Simple Buttons (Option+Cmd+B)

See your new "Rollover Button" in action

Make another button, name it "motionButton" by duplicating the shapeButton in the Library and changing it's name to motionButton. The dropdown menu to get the "duplicate..." action is in the upper right hand corner of the Library window.

Duplicate the shapeButton again and name it "textButton"

Dble click the motionButton's icon to get into "Editing" mode

Select the text "up" frame

Shift+f5 - twice

This will delete the two frame in fron of it (Over & Down)

Replace the word "Shape" with "Motion" and center it in the Button

Click f6 twice & it will paste it into the Over frame and twice agaain to fill it into the Down frame

Repeat with the textButton and use the word "Text"

Go back to scene 1

Drag one instance each of the motionButton, ande textButton from the Library to the stage

Make sure "Enable simple buttons" is not checked (Control>Enable Simple Buttons)

Arrange the three butons along the left side onf the stage, fairly evenly spaced

Modify>Align>Left

Modify>Align>Distribute Heights

Label layer 1 as "buttons"

Insert/Scene - Twice

You now have 3 scenes, which are the same as 3 HTML pages, or three different windows when it is playing on the Internet.

Go back to Scene 1

Window>Other Panels>Scene,  Rename Scene 1 as shapeScene (return), and Scene 2 as motionScene (return), and Scene 3 as textScene

Close the panel and go back to shapeScene

Make sure "Enable Simple Buttons" is off & the "Action" widow is visible (Window>Actions)

Click "Script Assistant Button"

Also bring up the Output Window (Window>Output)

Select the Shape button

From the actions window: Global Functions>Movie Clip Control>Dbl. click "on">select "release"


Global Functions>Timeline Control>Dbl. click "gotoAndPlay" and choose "shapeScene" from the drop-down menu

Save

Select the Motion button

Repeat above, but, after the gotoAndPlay and choose   "motionScene"

Save

Select theText button

Repeat above, but, after the gotoAndPlay and choose   "textScene"


Check Control>Enable Simple Buttons

Check to see if buttons work

If they do.....

Save

Select frame 1 of the shapeScene, Edit>Timeline>Copy Frames

Go to the motionScene

Select frame 1, Edit>Timeline>Paste Frames

Save

Go to the textScene

Select frame 1, Edit>Timeline>Paste Frames

Save

Go to your scene named "shapeScene"

Create a new layer in your timeline and name it "shapeTween"

Create a 50 frame Shape Tween

Create a new layer in your timeline and name it "motionTween"

Create a 50 frame Motion Tween

Make sure Buttons extend from frame 1 through to frame 50

Save

Go to your scene named "textScene"

Create a new layer in your timeline and name it "textTween"

Create a 50 frame Text Tween

Make sure Buttons extend from frame 1 through to frame 50

Save

You should now have a 3 page web page, with an animation on each

Control>Test Movie.  Do you see a problem?

Close the .swf file

Select shapeScene in your .fla file

Add a layer, lable it "actions"

Select the last frame of your animation, F7

click the "Script Assistant button"

In the Actions Palette  GlobalFunction>Timeline Control>Dbl. click "stop"

Go to motionScene and textScene and do the same thing

Control>Test Movie

Close the .swf movie

Go back to shapeScene

Window>Library (Cmd+L)

Dbl click the shapeButton icon to get into the editing mode

Download a royalty free sound

Add a new layer, lable it "sound"

File>Import>Import to Library  find the royalty free sound that you downloaded

Select the down frame of the sound layer, F7 & then drag a sound from the library to the stage

Repeat this for the motionButton and textButton

Go back to shapeScene

Control>Test Movie and check to see if the sound is working

Close SWF

Make a new layer in shapeScene and name it "webmaster"

Select the Text tool, Times, 18 pt, Bold, Black, Static text, type "Webmaster"

Place in lower left corner, under buttons

Make the word into a button

Name it wordButton

Edit it's Over, Down & Hit state (make the hit area a rectangle)

Go back to shapeScene

Make sure Enable Simple Buttons is off

Select the Webmaster button

click the "Script Assistant button"

Actions Palette: Global Function>Movie Clip Control>Dbl. click "on">click "release"

Global Function>Browser/Network>Dbl. click "getURL" then type  "mailto:mwh710@hotmail.com" in the URL field and in the window field choose "_self" from the drop down menu

Varibles - Don't send

Save

File>Publish Settings

Click the Publish button

Check the HTML in several browsers

Test webmaster button

If it works, then copy frames and paste the button frame into the motionScene and textScene (Don't forget to make a new layer) and republish

Save

eMail me the FLA, HTML, and the SWF file before Sunday evening at midnight