Does anyone here use Macromedia Flash? I use it for everything. Signatures, graphics, class projects, and of course animation and game making. I also use it for web design. Mostly for web design, ie: Flash navs, flash banners, music players. I'm not really that advanced yet, only know intermediate actionscript..but I'm getting there. If you want to see what I can do, I put everything and anything I knew at the time on this site: www.freewebs.com/rtsblue. Well, that was more of an introduction, than a discussion really. Back on topic, anyone here use flash besides me?

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Like most serious webdesigners I know about Flash can program it, but only ever use it when I cannot talk a client out of it.
I am soo glad that Flash is no longer the craze it used to be with every person thinking that thier site should be written in flash , without knowing why , just cos its Flash!
I find it too cumbersome for what most sites want, i.e most sites just use it for banners these days, some people still design whole sites in it but there ones are normally the showstopping sites used to promote a movie or a big retail brand.
The money involved to develop such a site is amazing! ive seen people charged 20K dollars just for a working framework of a site without content.
I hope Flash just kind of dies away and gets replaced with funky Ajax scripts, Ajax has more of a future as far as I am concerned;)

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I recently started using Macromedia Flash for making a simple flash website for a friend's project. Nothing too fancy, motion tween here, motion tween there and a few simple actionscripts . Most difficult part is the mailing system, it'll be a bit complicated to make that in flash completely ... still thinking about how to make it

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Flash is Flash, sites such as www.surreal-media.com make the most out of it, and I mean the most. However, the average person prefers flashing colors and animated roll-overs I guess. People who have been using the WWW for a while find it overrated. As for me, well I think Flash is flash. It has a lot of uses, heck even Youtube chose Flash to power it's engine.

 

 

 

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I am just learning how to use Flash 8!! It is too difficult for me to manage. Especially the action script. I always forget the function I learnt before. However, I will not stop! And we can communicate with each other while learning!

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Ive Just started using flash for simple webs, and a few games. I'm getting a bit confused with the actionscript, im still giving it my best though. I mean loads of people have asked me to make sites and im happy to do it and im getting paid aswell but its just the coding for me.

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