Flash Design - Creative and interactiveby Geomon T S (Graphic Designer, Excellone Technologies)
Macromedia Flash is an increasingly popular tool
for creating interactive multimedia presentations, including graphics
design and illustrations. The color management and enhanced graphic
tools extend the creative capabilities of Flash. This new technology
makes use of vector graphics, which holds the base of this graphics
animation program. The flash files that are capable of being included
in a web page and played in a stand-alone player comes out of these
flash animations. Action Script programming tool coming with flash,
allows designers and developers to leverage their existing skills
and provide a complete Internet application development environment.
Flash Features
The first feature behind the increasing popularity
of FLASH is, the ease in its usage. The Flash animation is also
comparably faster than the typical web graphics, as it makes use
of vector graphics instead of bit-mapped graphics. This ensures
that the image quality of Flash Design animation is very high. Further
text quality is also nurtured by vector graphics. In Flash animation,
the size of the image doesn't matter as it works regardless of size.
Pros & Cons of Flash
Pros
- Use of vector graphics.
- Easy transmission of images.
- Exact specification of page element.
- Greater degree of control.
- File-format running in various platforms including Microsoft
Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Unix systems.
- Good multimedia platforms with embedded sounds, images & movies.
- Creation of simple fill-in-the-blanks using Action Script language
(an application of the ECMA script programming language).
Cons
Flash Design has these negative sides too, like any other software
technology.
- The flash file format is not fully open standard, which minimize
the incentive for the support of noncommercial software.
- The boon of graphical nature may turn inactive when it comes
to the flash plug in disabled users.
But these disadvantages can be turned to advantages
in the future of IT which will enable more wide spread usage of
Flash Design in web applications.
FLASH MX
Macromedia Flash MX provides everything you need
to create and deploy rich Web content and powerful applications.
Whether you are designing motion graphics or building data-driven
applications, Flash MX has the tools you need to produce great results
and deliver the best user experiences across multiple platforms
and devices. Pre-built templates, UI components, an improved timeline,
and tighter integration with Macromedia Freehand and Fireworks reduce
development time.
The Macromedia Flash MX Solution couples the ubiquitous
client technology of Flash Player with a development environment
and optimized server-side connectivity allows rich Internet application
development to be accomplished quickly. This enables a more immediate,
consistent and familiar experience for end users and maximizes the
customer experience online.
The image quality of Flash Design animation is
very high, it is becoming increasingly popular by the day. Knowing
the pros and cons of making Flash design an integral part of your
website, will play a major role in decision making.
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