After I had a good amount of experience with flash from a class or two, I decided to make a flash site that showed off all the projects I had made.
I knew that the site would have to be easy for me to update because I was usually too busy with classes, so I didn't want to have to open up Flash every time I created a new project to update the site.
Instead, I made an XML file that listed out each of the projects, and some attributes like an image, and some text about the project, and a link to the project. The flash document I made parsed this XML, and displayed what you see on the screen.