Flash Design:
Cobalt Multimedia can build you a fully functioning Flash animation site such as the Plane Picture Company, or perhaps can add some Flash enhancements to your site that will dramatically increase your viewers attention and response rates to your site.

What is Flash:
Flash is an authoring tool for animated multimedia both on and off the web. It is today the most widely accepted technology for creating fully interactive real-time animation's on the Web. The most amazing thing about Flash animation technology is its low bandwidth requirements compared to animated GIF's, Quick Time movies, or even Shockwave Director technology.

Quick file downloads:
Flash file size requirements are extremely low due to its use of vector art as compared to bit-mapped art used in Shockwave and animated GIF's. Vector art uses geometry to define shapes and colors rather than bitmapped art which is defined by coloring each individual pixel (represented by a group of data bits) in a user-defined fixed sized matrix (often called a "raster"). Programs such as Photoshop, Painter, and your scanner software use bitmap graphics.

More than just web sites:
Flash can be used to make simple animated banners, graphics, entire web sites or used to create CD business cards. The developer of this product, Macromedia, has designed Flash to work on all operating systems and has designed it to play with the Flash or Shockwave plug-in or through JAVA-playback and Active X if you don't have the plug-in. Macromedia estimates that 98% of people on the web have the Flash plug in to view sites.