Flash 5
Flash is the foremost
authoring software for creating scalable, interactive animation on the Web. Whether you
are creating animated logos, website navigation controls, long form animation, or entire
Flash websites, you'll find the power and flexibility of Flash an ideal medium for your
own creativity.
With Flash, Macromedia has
combined a number of powerful ideas and technologies into a single program that allows
users to deliver full multimedia presentations over the Web.
One thing that makes Flash
an incredible development tool for the Web is its use of vector graphics as the default
graphics mode. This is an efficient way of handling graphics and often results in
relatively small file sizes - even while dealing with complex drawings.
Flash's development approach
also facilities the creation of complex multimedia presentations while still maintaining
small file sizes. Because such elements as vectors, bitmaps, and sounds are usually
employed more than once in a given movie, Flash allows you to make a single version of an
object, which you can reuse elsewhere rather than recreate the object each time you wish
to use it - a capability that goes a long way towards conserving file size. |