# Flash
As many of you know, I tend to be against the use of Flash on a website unless there is good reason to (e.g. you couldn’t really be able to do YouTube without Flash/flv or some other kind of widely used video-based format). This is because it kills Search Engine Optimisation, cuts down the Accessibility of a site and also isn’t very machine readable in general.
However, I am currently using Flash CS3 to make some simple animations for my work. So that I can embed them in presentations and things. It is probably the hardest bit of software to use, it has not got a very intuitive user interface (unlike its brother (Photoshop CS3)), it also can’t handle higher resolution pictures very well (I had a lot of trouble trying to make a PNG look good in Flash, so much so I gave up and remade the picture in Flash).
Now these problems are probably just because I am not used to using Flash, but you would have thought that it would be one of the easier bits of software to use. Oh well. I have used Flash before, but a long time ago, and its changed quite a bit since then. I’ve also used Director many many years ago. So I should start to get the hang of things soon.
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