Web Design: Flash Sites - Icon

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THE EARLY YEARS OF FLASH. There can be no doubt that Macromedia's Flash has changed the shape and future of the web. Before designers and developers found Flash they were toiling with HTML, Java and animated gifs. In those days, if you wanted to have a cool website, you could wow the masses with a lake applet or maybe even a virtual creature, like a tarantula to adorn your portfolio. Flash truly opened the door For creatives to fulfil their ideas and web design dreams. A new era of the web was upon us and everyone was jumping on the wave. Sites like Flashkit, Flash Wave, Flash Planet, Were Here and Ultrashock created large communities almost m overnightand by offering free downloadable flash files (flas), everyone was able to learn tricks and techniques they could only dream of by dissecting and playing with other people's code. The days of cutting edge web design being a hypertext link that turned purple when clicked were long gone. It was time for the Internet to go colour... enter Flash.