Shockwave and Flash Movies

 

Redirection

If the user does not have Flash/Shockwave plugins your web designer can redirect the user to a page where there is no Flash/Shockwave loading.


You can see this page at Shocflash2.htm

Examples of Flash and Shockwave

Flash clips

Fishin
A Flash movie from Shockwave.com. This has sound.
This is compiled and saved as a .exe file

What are Flash and Shockwave?

These two programs are animation/movie programs. You can make your own interactive animations and movies for display on Web pages. Shockwave is made in Director and makes more ambitious animations and movies than Flash.

Not all people's systems are enabled for Flash and Shockwave, so alternatve versions are commonly offered.

First check if your system is Flash and Shockwave enabled.


Check for Flash by double clicking here
Check for Shockwave by double clicking here


If you stayed on this page you are OK. If not you can get both the plugin and player for Flash and the Shockwave player free from Macromedia's Site

You need the Flash and Shockwave installed to play them on your browser.
 

From Dreamweaver Help:


'The Flash Player is available as both a Netscape Navigator plug-in and an ActiveX control for Microsoft Internet Explorer on the PC, and it is incorporated in the latest versions of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer.


Shockwave, the Macromedia standard for interactive multimedia on the web, is a compressed format that allows media files created in Macromedia Director to be downloaded quickly and played by most popular browsers'Shockwave on the Web When you view shockwave or flash content the images are streamed to your browser from where they are stored on the web.

 

 

What are Flash and Shockwave used for?

Flash is often used for colourful navigation buttons  

Flash text creates colourful headings often with rollover

Flash movies are commonly used for animated introductions to web sites or animated banners.