INTRODUCTION OF FLASH

Flash: What and how
What is it for?

Flash can be used to create interactive rich media content (including text, photos, music, video, vector graphics, voiceover, and a wide variety of motion graphic effects and animation) to be displayed in a browser. By producing a compiled Flash movie and an html page which embeds that movie and uploading both to a web server, the content is made viewable to a site visitor via a Flash browser plugin, the latest version of which can be downloaded for free here.

Flash can also be used to create executable files, to be played from a CD or from the desktop of either a PC or a Mac, without requiring any additional software (the Flash player is embedded in the executable).

In this class, we'll concentrate on using Flash to create online movies. (A Flash source file is also referred to as a Flash movie, whether it is actually an ad, a cartoon, a complete web site, a game, or some other Flash application). Flash is an ideal application, as we'll see on the next page, not only for entertaining or making a statement on a website, but for any online application involving user interaction, display of database content, need for resizable graphics (maps, eg), explanatory animation, custom navigation, or seamless/custom integration of video or sound.

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