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We are going to start with the drop down menu.

Create a new movie clip and draw a rectangle and a text box. Write "Menu".

Create another Movie Clip and draw a rectangle and a text box. Write "Home". This one is going to be an item in our drop down menu.

Make 2 more item Movie Clips, "Contact" and "About". Don't forget to make them in the same height and width.

Now make a new Movie Clip and export it for ActionScript with the identifier "DropDown". Right click the second frame of this Movie Clip and select "Insert Blank Keyframe". Insert a third and a forth blank frame as well.

In the second frame add the "About" Movie Clip, in the third add the "Contact" Movie Clip then the "About" Movie Clip and in the forth frame add all item Movie Clips. Frame 2:

Frame 3:

Frame 4:

in the last frame open the actions window and add this: stop(); This is a simple animation to scroll the items on our menu, and when it gets to the last frame we stop the animation.