Kelly Coleson
ARTV2301
Professor Tan
December 6, 2013
Flash Final Quiz
Because of the effective, comprehensive instruction from
Professor Tan at the Digital Communication department at Houston
Community College – West Loop, many new concepts, skills, and web publishing knowledge using Adobe Flash CS6 has been possible.
Another positive result was my official Adobe Flash certification through Certiport, which many Thanks go to both my instructor and
Houston Community College.
This paper will answer questions presented for evaluation in order to support an overall understanding of Flash, and provide examples from my final project, the assigned Adobe textbook, and/or tutorial examples from Lynda.com.
1. DESCRIBE HOW AND WHEN YOU WOULD USE FLASH EFFECTIVELY FOR THE WEB OR
IN MULTIMEDIA SITUATIONS.
WHAT IS THE PROSPECT ON THE FUTURE OF FLASH?
SUPPORT YOUR THOUGHTS WITH ONLINE REFERENCES.
Adobe Flash CS6 software is capable of interactive multimedia web design, animation, games, commercial advertisements, or customized user interfaces with its ability import vector or rasterized
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graphics , and supports video and sound files. It contains an Objectoriented language called ActionScript.
My example of a customized user interface (class final project) can be viewed at http://villaplace.com (link found at bottom of page).
The future of Flash is unclear, but needs modification in order to adapt to recent trends of web development to provide universal application to cross browser and mobile technology.
An article read from PC Magazine by Jamie Lendino and outlines the reasons why Adobe Flash is not suited for mobile devices, with his projection that desktop application of Flash will decline as well.
This article really hit home with my experience this semester.
Lendino wrote how he experimented privately on a complete rebuild with much troubleshooting, but his MacBook ran unacceptably hot,
with