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.