Flash - Creating Shock Waves of Approval

It must have been just another ordinary day, when a young American school kid had some initial thoughts about creating a drawing application for producing computer graphics, way back in the 1980's. However, that day went down in history, as the kid grew up to be the software designer and entrepreneur Jonathan Gay, whose brainchild materialized as one of the most widely used applications on desktops across the world, FLASH.

Flash can be defined as a set of definite techniques and technologies used for creating animated and interactive objects in the cyber space. The most widespread use of this software application is in crafting interactivities and animated components for web pages, advertisements, etc. The files associated with this application are generally of swf (shockwave flash) and flv (flash video) extensions. According to one of the latest studies made in 2007, nearly 96% of the desktop computers all over the world with internet facility use this application along with two million professionals. Lot of experts call attention to the fact that Flash being an extremely stable graphics interactive animation system capable of delivering content of dynamic nature, is the reason for the phenomenal success of this proprietary application technique.

Originally hailed as Shockwave Flash and then later re-christened to Macromedia Flash to simply be termed as Flash, it is capable of manipulating both vector and raster graphics. With the help of a scripting language called Action Script, Flash has provision for bi-directional audio and video streaming. However, it is more limiting when compared to the HTML format. But still, Flash enjoys the status among both amateur as well as professional graphics designers mainly because of the fact that this technique enables them to have a complete and precise hold over every little part of the resultant design. Furthermore, the requirement to refresh an application or turning back to the same page over and over again is not there with Flash. While other similar programs depend only on the set of fonts provided by the Operating System, Flash can use any embedded fonts. So as it Flashes, Say Cheese!

Graduating in 2003 in Business and Information Technology Jonathan Popoola has since become an expert in web design cheltenham and web design gloucestershire Visit my site for more information on webdesign and also information on graphic design in cheltenham

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