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I posted the fla and source files for my blog, you can go through and see if there’s anything useful.

https://similitude.sim-designs.net/2005/8/31/how-it-works/

I posted the fla and source files for my blog, you can go through and see if there’s anything useful.

https://similitude.sim-designs.net/2005/8/31/how-it-works/

Hey ppl,

Since this project started a lot of functionality has been added to it, and at this point it pretty much functions the way my old WordPress blog did.

You can check out developments on the blog at:

https://similitude.sim-designs.net/category/blog-dev

The code is still messy, so once I get it cleaned up, I’ll be posting the fla and php code so y’all can run with it.

That faded red rectangle above the arrows, that’s the scroll bar, click and drag to scroll up or down.
Thanks again for the comments.

From what I can see, your page doesn’t need positioning to achieve the look it has now. It’s postioning that usually messes up a perfectly good CSS layout. Try stacking the divs one on top of the other, don’t use height attributes unless neccesary, and to get the box with a box look, use a or a <div> within a div with padding set to whatever values you want, and text-align for the outer container set to center.

Your space problem is probably a direct result of some margin or padding you set before, coupled with the positioning thing.

See if that helps.

Thanks for the comments, esp. Jinsan.
I noticed the jerky scroll thing, and I guess it can be attributed to the 50 odd movie clips inside the one I’m trying to scroll, it takes a while for it to catch up. Trying to optimize that though.

I think I’m going to change the bouncy menu, it was something I hadn’t done before, but I was too lazy to make it any smoother.

Thanks again ??

I found a really easy way around all of the Flash Remoting and XML parsing and server installations of different types of services.

By utilizing the loadVars object in Flash, you can get it to do just about anything php can throw at it. I’ve been trying to figure out for months how to make my blog completely Flash, and realized with a little modification of the wp-rss2.php file, which does most of the work of stripping out unneccesary content and tags from the actual blog, and adding a few new functions to template_functions.php, I was able to get Flash to see the content of my blog, by allowing the php files to create the variables in url-encoded format, and passing it to the movie using the sendAndLoad function.

Here’s what I’ve come up with so far, some customization is still left to be done, and some animation, but you get the general idea.

https://similitude.sim-designs.net/blog.html