FLASH DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

img lash development, flash website design, flash banner design and flash animation all play a major role in the design of websites. Although these are not compulsory components of a website design, they all have a unique purpose and they serve as amazing tools to attract your users and clients. Flash is an amazing Adobe product which uses a type of coding called ActionScript 1.0, ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0. It also holds an animation timeline for manual animation following the principles of cell animation.

The benefits of flash are vast and complex because the program is so versatile, interactive and ever evolving. It allows you to incorporate advanced forms of information into interactive movies which can be embedded into any website. Most online banners are created with Flash and are read and previewed by a browser plug-in called Flash Player.

Why use flash banners? With Flash's amazing animation ability, interactivity and advanced programming, you can create visually stimulating and high interest yielding banners which can be clicked on, played with and integrated into most major directories and advertising spaces including Myspace, Facebook, Ninemsn, Yahoo. These banners are then an opportunity to create a heavy traffic flow to your website, if designed ergonomically and with brand dynamics in mind and placed in the appropriate online environment. Street Fresh offers online marketing services and can select a medium and an audience that will bring out the most of your advertising.

Flash websites are amazingly diverse and interactive, visually, the sky is the limit. On a development level, many software driven e-commerce systems as well as other online systems have been created which integrate Flash functionality with databases and web information portals.

Flash animation is also widely used and works on a similar principle to cell animation - of course, technology has allowed us to streamline the process. Integration with other advanced editing software such as Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects means Flash is easy to integrate and its capabilities can be maximised.

Flash does have its disadvantages in relation to search engine optimisation, heavy bandwidth and browser compatibility, but with advancements in software development, these issues are slowly but surely disappearing. Street Fresh can help you work around these issues to find a solution that works best for your target audience. Flash CS4 now also combines 3D motion.