I have used Flash in a number of situations during my web development. There have not been any major projects like I have done in Java for example.

Some of my work has included producing a small site that completley used Flash. This was a basic site but gave me experience of using multiple layers and creating simple animations and navigation to different pages.

There have been other small projects but nothing too exciting. The other project I enjoyed and learned from was to produce a Dynamic Photo Gallery. The gallery loads the pictures as required from a database. It can deal with different size pictures (Most of the time they resize correctly). The menu list at the top (photo category) is also loaded from the databse and is used to filter the list of pictures by subject.

This is a project that I will be revisiting and updating in the not to distant future. I want to:

• Allow for any size picture to be displayed correctly.
• To be able to use an XML file to load the images and categories dynamically (this will be done through PHP).
• To be able to search by both category and by a key name search to refine the list of pictures.
• To be able to give a link to the full size image so it can be downloaded if required.

Flash is a useful technology when used correctly and is something I really enjoy doing.