The Great Expanse Site Template is a compact collection of galleries and/or sections with many smart functions and effects. The following things described in this summary can all be changed via the XML file. You can add or delete galleries to your liking. You can have as many images in a gallery as you like. You can change the scale of the thumbnails. You can decide the color of the menu button and the color of the background color for each section/gallery. And of course you can change the site title and the music loop. You can also have an optional text section and an optional contact section. AS3 only. Opens with Flash CS3 . Step by step instructions are included and code is commented. Also, two html files are included to demonstrate SWF embedding for both full browser and fixed size.