Flash can do more for your web site than provide eye-catching movement, and has come a long way since the animated intro page days.

Flash enables you to reach your customers by stimulating their senses and tugging at their emotions.

Web applications often involve users completing a process, or a series of steps to get something done. Among Flash's greatest strengths, it offers users the ability to view all of the steps in the process in one visual display.

Flash offers a tight integration of multimedia content in a single file format. If the needs of a project dictate that sound, movement and interactivity are needed, Flash may is likely the best choice for development.

There are other features of Flash that make it a powerful Web development product including XML support, server-side application support, printing, forms and dynamic content.