Flash!

By Carla Schaffer

Now that I actually know the very very basics of Flash, it's something that I would really like to learn more about. It would be a nice technique to learn to master someday, because there is so much that a journalist could do with it. But there is a point that too much interaction is extremely distracting. I am personally not a fan of the fancy intro pages on different websites, even if there is a button that the user can push to skip forward. But in the cases where a print story just doesn't cut it when explaining a process, a detailed interactive image would come in handy. I've only skimmed the basics with this program, but I can already tell that it can be a very powerful tool for journalists.