I appreciate that i am using a very old version of flash and that some people might say it is time to upgrade. Well unfortunatly for me the only legal copy of flash that i have is flash 5 and so i am fairly limited on what i can do with sites.
However i am determined to create a great website using flash 5.
So my question really is this. I have a site which i am extreemly inspired by (as i am a musician)
http://www.deadmau5.com/.
Looking at this site i can see a lot of things (that i can do the hard way) that i can do in flash 5 and possibly some things that i can't.
For all you flash guru's out there, what on this site is possible for me to do in flash 5 and what isn't. Using the web page above as a template.
I appreciate that this is a bit of a broad question, so i perhaps i should narrow this down a little.
The auto resizing thing that the movie does is very sleek and something that looks quite good. It all seems to be done in flash and i am not sure if this is a flash 5 thing or not. Infact that is one thing i am very keen on. I could do some sort of HTML, CSS and flash trickery in flash 5 if this is not possible but i am not so keen on that.
The dynamic content. Now i know this can be loaded from a text file in flash 5 and the possible solution to that would be to just have a server side file that simply accesses the database and then outputs html text or plain text so this isn't so much of an issue i do not think.
The music player, could this be done by putting my mp3's in a seperate swf file and then dynamically loading them in? I am sure i did this in the past with flash 5.
Now even if you can do all these things with flash 5 am i going to experience a huge file size?
I know everyone will be saying that upgrading would be the best option but unfortunatly i am on somewhat of a budget...this budget consisting of no money. Any help / suggestions / tips would be good.
I am already creating simple animations with flash but i am just getting back into it after a few years away from flash.
