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Flash sites are becoming more and more popular today. Therefore demand for good software for development of flash sites among webmasters also increases. One of such programs for development of flash sites is such program as Adobe Flash.
Today Adobe Flash (formerly known as Macromedia Flash) is the most popular multimedia platform for development of not only flash sites but also other flash applications: games, banners, web-integrated videos etc. You can work with vector, bit-mapped and 3D graphics (limited) during development of flash sites with Adobe Flash. Besides you can broadcast audio and video files into web.
The process of development of flash sites with the help of software for development of flash sites, including Adobe Flash, consists of the same main processes and stages as the process of development of any other kind of site. However the difference is that elements which require animation or sound effects overlay are additionally processed in the programs for development of flash sites and then are “assembled” into the whole.
What main elements of flash sites are created with the help of software for development of flash sites? Most often they are: flash menu, flash banners, flash image rotators, flash players for websites etc. Each of these elements can interact with users of a site.
How to start development of a flash sites with the help of Adobe Flash? First of all you should buy one of application suites developed by Adobe all of which contain such application as Flash Professional:
- Creative Suite 5 Design Premium
- Creative Suite 5 Web Premium
- Creative Suite 5 Production Premium
- Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
All these application suites contain such program for development of flash sites as Adobe Flash Professional CS5. It is also possible to buy Adobe Flash Professional CS5 separately.
After having purchased and installed Adobe Flash you can start development of flash sites. During the launch the program offers to choose the type of the file you are going to create and version of ActionScript language you are going to work with.
ActionScript is one of the object-oriented programming languages; it is one of the dialects of ECMAScript and is used for development of interactive websites – flash sites.
Use of ActionScript language during development of flash sites permits to adjust the actions which take place during flash playback. You can specify its own script in this language for each flash element.
Silverlight is an alternative to use of Adobe Flasg during development of flash sites. Silverlight is a technology developed by Microsoft. In contrast to Adobe Flash this program for development of flash sites is XAML-based.
Such suites of tools as Microsoft Expression Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio with Silverlight Tools extension and free Visual Web Developer Express suite with installed software module Silverlight Tools belong to software for development of flash sites based on Silverlight technology.
Some more paid alternatives to Adobe and Microsoft products are worth mentioning, among them are the following programs for development of flash websites:
- Xtivity
- Sothink SWF Quicker
- Sothink SWF Easy
- KoolMoves
- SWiSHmax
These programs for development of flash sites suit for those users who do not have deep knowledge in the field of flash programming.
Among free programs for development of flash sites we can single out Flash Develop – free development environment and an editor written in C# which permits to create Rich Internet Application with the help of Flex SDK or haxe. Although this software product cannot replace Flash Builder completely you can use it to compile for platforms Flash, JavaScript. To install FlashDevelop you need Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework.
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