On Using Flash Web Design Tool

Adobe Flash web design tool is a multimedia dais used for adding animations, videos, and other interactivity to web pages. It was formerly called SmartSketch FutureSplash, FutureSplash Animator and Macromedia Flash. More lately, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications”.

Flash web design works around with vector and raster graphics for animating text, drawings, and images. It also supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video. The software contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript. The input by user can be captured via mouse, keyboard, microphone as well as a camera.

Many web designer use Flash webdesign to enrich the web experience, with the use of animations and interactivity. Some others find a widespread use of Flash animations in advertising. But Flash web designs are often criticized for affecting the usability of web pages adversely. Most recent innovations for Flash webdesign are Flash 10, Flex 3, and ActionScript 3.0. Adobe Integrated Runtime, a cross-platform runtime environment or AIR was released for building rich internet applications, using Flash.

Flash web design files are in the SWF format or "ShockWave Flash" movies and usually have an extension of .swf. Firmly "played" in a standalone Flash Player, these files can be used in the form of a web page plug-in. Similarly, Flash Video files have a .flv file extension and can be used either from within .swf files or played through a flv-aware player. Flash web design tool is used mainly to create vector graphics. Combined with program code, the Flash files become smaller and thus use less bandwidth for streaming as compared to the corresponding bitmaps or video clips.

Open Source projects like Ajax Animator aims to generate a Flash development environment, complete with a graphical user environment. The idea is to produce high-level object-oriented programming language progressing towards web-content creation that can compile Flash files.

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