Research for Design Technique

Research A Good Design Technique For Integrating Multimedia Into A Web Site Design. Share Your Findings Including The Type Of Multimedia And What Plug-in Is Needed For Successfully Viewing This Type Of Multimedia On A Web Site?
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Flash is the most widely used multimedia platform for web sites. You can use Flash for music, videos, and animations. Entire interactive web sites can be constructed using Flash. There are a number of tools for creating and editing flash content. There are lots of free Flash elements available for creating image galleries, jukeboxes, and videos. Flash uses ActionScript which is basically a compiled version of JavaScript.

Besides the Adobe Flash package there are third party applications for creating Flash content like Swift 3D, and Swish... Checkout them at:

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php

http://www.erain.com/

http://flowplayer.org/

One cool thing that Flash does is that it will stream audio and video from your site without have a dedicated media server.

Free Flash components:

http://www.flashcomponents.net/components/free_flash_files.html

If you decide to get into it, you'll probably want to check out some training videos from Lynda.com or Total Training. Besides Adobe, a book company with a lot of great training materials is Friends of ED. At lot of online material is free.

http://www.lynda.com/

http://www.totaltraining.com/

http://www.friendsofed.com/

That should give you some ideas. Let me know what you think. There are other routes you can take, but Flash is probably the most versatile.

Design (de`sign´): the act of working