Flashforward is devoted to teaching and sharing the most innovative techniques related to programming, design, development, and deployment enabled by the Macromedia(R) SWF? file format.

We support and address the needs of a broad Flashforward audience, from large development houses, advertising firms, film and video studios, to freelance animators, educators and student designers. .

SWF is the first file format that allows designers and multimedia artists to create content with full control over fonts, animation, multimedia, sound and interactivity. The design and programming capabilities brought about by the SWF file format and Macromedia(R) Flash? technology took the Web by storm, and have influenced an entirely new way of working with and looking at the Web. With the release of Macromedia Flash MX, this tool is now capable of creating dynamic applications that are self-running inside or outside of a web browser. Flash is growing in popularity faster than most any other technology in history, and has spawned new tools and techniques that are evolving at a breakneck pace.