What is Flash and Top Uses for Flash

Adobe Flash or Macromedia Flash is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games Rich Internet Applications which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages.

Top 5 Uses of Flash: 

1. Create an Animated Character    Flash offers tools that let you bring character animation right onto your home computer, with a full-featured animation studio that lets you create easily animated characters and environments. There are many ways to animate in Flash, but my two favorite types of character animation are: Traditional and Paper Doll Style.
2. Build a Website    Flash has a variety of uses online, such as, creating animated flash thumbnail galleries, developing dynamic websites, creating unique site navigation menus, create popup tooltips, designing a custom mouse cursor, creating a video player, etc. 
3. Create a Game   Flash's interactivity has given rise to a number of games; the only limit is your creativity and your ability to incorporate user-responsive scripting into your animations. They don't even have to be animated, although sometimes it helps. All you need is a little interaction with the end user, some form of entertainment or challenge, and you have a game or puzzle.
4. Create Animated Advertisements   Sometimes advertisements are necessary, though, and there are a number of ways you can use Flash to incorporate them: Google Adsense; Transparent Animations; Video Overlay, etc. 
5. Build Your Own Applications   Take interactivity to the next level, you also build flash applications with a more useful purpose than just games. You can embed flash applications into your webiste to add functionality that has some benefit to your users, whether it's just convenience or something more complex.