January 12, 2001
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In what some acquaintances of mine might call a futile attempt to expand my brain, I’m attended the first of two all day introductory Flash sessions, graciously paid for by the my place of employ. I know what you’re going to say. I’m collapsing under the voluminous weight of interactive peer pressure, shedding all remaining scraps of dignity and diving into the heinous, skip-intro world of cheese-eating, high school computer lab web site design. Within weeks, I’ll forsake my trusted text editing companion, BBEdit, for those acres of attractively arranged tabbed palettes, strewn wildly across my monitor like so many complementary shrimp cocktail coupons along the Las Vegas strip.
Dim prospects indeed.At some point I decided that I needed to learn about creating content in formats other than flat HTML and chunks of optimized pixels. I tried forcing myself to slog through a Flash tutorial over a year ago, but only got as far as launching the application and getting utterly confused. After these sessions, at least I’ll be able to decide for myself whether Flash, as a design media, warrants any further investigation. Or deserves any more of my time.
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