Flash

Flash is not just for fancy effects. Flash is first and foremost, an animation software. It is also very versatile.

Flash with actionscript can do almost everything you need in a website. It can do what PHP and Javascript can do and in most cases look much slicker. What I like about Flash is that you cannot peek at the code easily like other client side technologies like Javascript.

Flash has changed throughout the years. It was started by Macromedia and was later sold to Adobe. Flash has become an Object-oriented programming (OOP) language because Adobe wanted Flash to work with databases and such.