Originally acquired by Macromedia, Flash was introduced in 1996, and is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Flash is normally utilised to develop animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into internet pages, and a lot more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.
The precursor to the Flash application was SmartSketch, a drawing application for pen computers running the PenPoint OS developed by Jonathan Gay, who began working on it in college and extended the idea for Silicon Beach Software and its successors
When PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. With the Internet becoming a lot more popular, SmartSketch was re-released as FutureSplash, a vector-based web animation in competition with Macromedia Shockwave. In 1995, SmartSketch was further modified with frame-by-frame animation features and re-released as FutureSplash Animator on multiple platforms. The product was offered to Adobe and used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet (MSN). In 1996, FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia and released as Flash, contracting "Future" and "Splash".
With the World Wide Net becoming more and more media rich - that was inevitable Flash technology is also applied for creating Flash templates and Flash web site layouts.
Flash templates are pre-made web design products that are basically standard site templates enhanced with Flash technology. This technology is the latest trend among internet users and webmasters today and it is the reason that Flash Templates are in such great demand.
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