Flash is a multimedia software originally designed by Macromedia that has spawned a whole new genre of Websites with fast, vector-based animation (uses mathematical equations to ensure they scale correctly based on monitor size) and sound.

What can Flash do?

There isn't much that Flash can't do. It can create fancy introductions, navigation buttons, banners, slideshows, moving text, and pretty much anything else you can think of. CoffeeCup offers five programs that incorporate at least some Flash. Foremost is Flash Firestarter. Flash Firestarter is the fastest and easiest way to make complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse. The next two were originally designed with Java applets but were released as Flash versions, Button Factory (no longer available), and Password Wizard, at the request of our customers. Button Factory allowed for the easy creation of all types of navigational buttons, while Password Wizard will assist in creating unlimited password protected pages with unlimited usernames and passwords. Also at our users' request, we added a feature in our GIF Animator that converts Animated GIFs to Flash. Finally, CoffeeCup HTML Editor received some Flash functionality on version 8 and now includes a Flash Text Wizard.