I have my website as a published SWF file now, everything is in working order, I've checked it and checked it again, sorted the annoying smoothing that flash decided it should put on all my images and (apart from the italic text which, strangely, looks alot more slanty in flash than it did in indesign for some reason) I am pretty pleased with what I've produced. I've got a domain name now (which I need to figure out how to use) and a pdf CV sorted so I was pretty pleased with myself until I decided I should research what a standard size is for a flash site....
I read a forum post in which a guy in a very similar situation to mine (first website, file size of around 3mb) was told his site was ''waaaaaaay too big''. I also found a feature on flash called bandwidth profiler which simulates the download of the site at various connection speeds. I don't even want to write how long it took at dialup speed and though no-one has dialup anymore, even I couldn't be bothered to wait for it to download on DSL I actually, without thinking about it, closed the site and went on something else!
This is really annoying but not a catastrophe as I can do some stuff to streamline the file and if that doesn't work then there seems to be a method involving splitting the site into separate movies so the user doesn't have to load it all at once (annoying though cos navigation will be slowed) then there is the option of some kind of loading graphic so all is not lost, just scattered into a lot of small pieces...
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