Flash - What is it?

Keep coming across the term Flash? Sounds like a way of describing something doesn't it? "That car is Flash", "Flash watch". When it comes to web sites it means something completely different though.

Flash is a type of web technology that is capable of producing interactive animations for web sites. All those cool looking sites with lots of things flying across the screen that follow your mouse around etc is done in flash.

Some websites are completely made out of Flash others have elements of flash in, like navigation buttons.

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